colors for messages "addressed to ..."

[Alex Kachanov]

Hi!
I wanna use "coloring" for messages not addressed to my email in Outlook
2003.
All these emails are in one domain. So I need a Automatic Formatting rule in
customized view to select messages that don't have mydomain.com in To field.
But I can only create in Advanced tab to filter messages with To field,
which works for only name in to field (e.g. TO: "Name" <[email protected]>).
It doesn't catch exact email, but catches only names which may be different
in my incoming mail for some reasons...

If I use Rules and Alerts feature, it can capture even such conditions ("...
in the recipient's address"), but it can't color my messages, only create
color flags on them...

Help me pls

 

[Roady [MVP]]

How about turning it around;
-Create an Automatic Formatting rule with no conditions so all messages are
marked with a color of your choice.
-Create a second Automatic Formatting rule with the condition where your
name is in the To field to color it differently

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----
Hi!
I wanna use "coloring" for messages not addressed to my email in Outlook
2003.
All these emails are in one domain. So I need a Automatic Formatting rule in
customized view to select messages that don't have mydomain.com in To field.
But I can only create in Advanced tab to filter messages with To field,
which works for only name in to field (e.g. TO: "Name" <[email protected]>).
It doesn't catch exact email, but catches only names which may be different
in my incoming mail for some reasons...

If I use Rules and Alerts feature, it can capture even such conditions ("...
in the recipient's address"), but it can't color my messages, only create
color flags on them...

Help me pls

 

[Alex Kachanov]

How about turning it around;

-Create an Automatic Formatting rule with no conditions so all messages
are
marked with a color of your choice.
-Create a second Automatic Formatting rule with the condition where your
name is in the To field to color it differently

Thanks, but problem was not in creating rule with "NOT" condition, but
creating rule that is able to find parts of email-addresses.

Usually Outlook displays sender and receiver by name:
"Alex Kachanov", not "(e-mail address removed)" when TO field contains:
To: "Alex Kachanov" <[email protected]>

so this coloring rules perform search only in name (in quotes) part of TO
field.... And my incoming mail doesn't contain exact name part in each
email... That was the problem.
Even if I ask all my friends to change name in their address books, some
mailing lists and robot messages user only email, not name in TO field...

 

[Alex Kachanov]

so this coloring rules perform search only in name (in quotes) part of TO

field.... And my incoming mail doesn't contain exact name part in each
email... That was the problem.
Even if I ask all my friends to change name in their address books, some
mailing lists and robot messages user only email, not name in TO field...

The solution was:

create Rule that sets some category to selected letters and then apply View
Autoformatting that colors messages with this category.