Colour applied in Organize rule - two same first names but not sur

[Guest]

A user applied a colour from a specific person "Tim Jones" to appear in
fushia however when she receives emails from Tim Brown, his emails also
appear in pink. I assumed as they are not the same names it would not apply
the colour rule to both.

Can you explain how you get the fushia colour rule to Tim Jones?

 

[Brian Tillman]

A user applied a colour from a specific person "Tim Jones" to appear
in fushia however when she receives emails from Tim Brown, his emails
also appear in pink. I assumed as they are not the same names it
would not apply the colour rule to both.

Can you explain how you get the fushia colour rule to Tim Jones?

What is the exact rule? What version of Outlook?

 

[Guest]

Outlook 2003 on Exchange 2003.

The colour was applied by the Organise Tool, Use colours. Using the colour
messages from option.
Therefore user was selecting Tim Jones in her Inbox, selecting using the
colour messages from (Tim Jones name was listed) and applied fushia. But as
stated because their is a Tim Jones and a Tim Brown listed in her Inbox both
will be applied with the same colour.

Any ideas?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Outlook 2003 on Exchange 2003.

The colour was applied by the Organise Tool, Use colours. Using the
colour messages from option.
Therefore user was selecting Tim Jones in her Inbox, selecting using
the colour messages from (Tim Jones name was listed) and applied
fushia. But as stated because their is a Tim Jones and a Tim Brown
listed in her Inbox both will be applied with the same colour.

I see this, too. I just colored all messages received from "Def, Abc" and
all messages from that person were colored. However, I also have messages
from "Ghi, Def" and those, too, However, messages from "Jkl, Abc" where
not. That is, when I colored messages from someone whose last name happens
to be someone else's first name, both entries were colored. I haven't yet
worked out exactly what's happening, but
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/coloremailadvanced.htm indicates that the
pattern matching is not simple.