How to colour emails from any know contact? (Without running out of rules)

[Shiperton Henethe]

Hi

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to get ms Outlook 2002
to colour (or mark-up in some other way) all emails that come
from *ALL* email addresses in my address book - JUST BECAUSE
THEY ARE IN MY ADDRESS BOOK?!

I have several hundred contacts and last time I tried colouring
names individually I ran out of rules !


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

P.S. Or is there a bug that makes this impossible?!

 

[Shiperton Henethe]

What I mean is:
how do I automatically colour (of mark up some other way)
all my incoming emails if they are from someone in my contacts list!

Ship

 

[Kenneth]

Hi

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to get ms Outlook 2002
to colour (or mark-up in some other way) all emails that come
from *ALL* email addresses in my address book - JUST BECAUSE
THEY ARE IN MY ADDRESS BOOK?!

I have several hundred contacts and last time I tried colouring
names individually I ran out of rules !


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

P.S. Or is there a bug that makes this impossible?!

Howdy,

This is not a direct answer to your question, but you might consider:

http://www.qurb.com

It just moves all incoming email from those not in your addressbook to
another folder.

HTH,

 

[Shiperton Henethe]

Hi

Howdy,

This is not a direct answer to your question, but you might consider:

http://www.qurb.com

It just moves all incoming email from those not in your addressbook to
another folder.

HTH,

$30 dollars is *way* too much for something that
Outlook should darned well be able to do already!

And probably a lousy investment as at some point
in time it probably will be able to do!

(Looks good though, I confess!)


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

 

[Shiperton Henethe]

Hi

Howdy,

This is not a direct answer to your question, but you might consider:

http://www.qurb.com

It just moves all incoming email from those not in your addressbook to
another folder.

HTH,

Ah but these guys hated it!
http://www.spamreviews.com/archives/000007.html

Here's what they said:
Editor Rating: 1 star
Pros
+ Simple user interface
+ Integrates directly into your email client
Cons
- Frequently quarantines legitimate email
- Poor protection against spamSummary
Qurb blocked a low percentage of spam in our tests and tended to quarantine
legitimate email from senders we didn't explicitly put in our "approved
senders" list.

 

[Kenneth]

$30 dollars is *way* too much for something that
Outlook should darned well be able to do already!

And probably a lousy investment as at some point
in time it probably will be able to do!

(Looks good though, I confess!)


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

Hi Ship,

You can continue to shout about the lack of justice in the email
client world...

I will continue to use Qurb happily...

All the best,

 

[Kenneth]

Qurb blocked a low percentage of spam in our tests and tended to quarantine
legitimate email from senders we didn't explicitly put in our "approved
senders" list.

Well that's half true...

Qurb blocks 100% of spam.

That is not magic. It is a simple fact. It just moves to a folder all
mail that comes in from addresses that are not on the approved list.
So, unless I have marked a spam source as Approved (by accident, or
through some masochistic motivation) all spam is blocked.

The second part of the comment you quoted is absolutely true.

If you were to send me a perfectly legitimate email, it would go to
the spam folder because you are not (likely to be) in my approved
list.

Believe me, Qurb is no silver bullet, but it does have some virtues,
and it does block all spam. I suggested it only because it sounded so
similar in function to the desires of the OP.

All the best,

 

[Shiperton Henethe]

Well that's half true...

Qurb blocks 100% of spam.

That is not magic. It is a simple fact. It just moves to a folder all
mail that comes in from addresses that are not on the approved list.
So, unless I have marked a spam source as Approved (by accident, or
through some masochistic motivation) all spam is blocked.

The second part of the comment you quoted is absolutely true.

If you were to send me a perfectly legitimate email, it would go to
the spam folder because you are not (likely to be) in my approved
list.

Believe me, Qurb is no silver bullet, but it does have some virtues,
and it does block all spam. I suggested it only because it sounded so
similar in function to the desires of the OP.

Yes this is fair enough.
And I can see that this functionality in Qurb could be moderately useful...

My main problem is that as webmaster for a site
I need to receive emails in large quantities from my users
and they are necessarily strangers in the main!

Ship
Shiperton Henethe