OL2003: Color-coding messages from specific domain

[Alex Wenzel]

I try to make the messages from senders within a specific domain (i.e,
my company; think: senders with email addresses ending "@domain.com")
appear in a defined font color in the inbox (this is not about the
"colored flag" you can use to mark a message).
I know how to color-code a message from a specific person (from the
address book) by auto-formatting, and you can color-code a message
whose sender's display name contains the domain part, but you seemingly
cannot go after the sender's mail address itself.
The strange thing is that I can set up a rule in rules wizard that
catches the right messages (by looking for parts of the sender's
address) and gives them a colored flag (which is not enough), but I
can't figure out how to give them another font color. There seems to be
no way from the rules wizard to the auto-formatting.

Any ideas?

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

I use the "Organize" wizard for this.

Select Tools --> Organize
Then select the 'Use Colors' item under 'Ways to Organize Inbox'

When a co-worker is not looking, select color messages from their boss in
White for fun.

 

[Alex Wenzel]

I use the "Organize" wizard for this.

Select Tools --> Organize
Then select the 'Use Colors' item under 'Ways to Organize Inbox'

When a co-worker is not looking, select color messages from their boss in
White for fun.

I already tried that and can't find a way to use the Organize Wizard
for coloring the messages other than entering sender *names* one by
one. I can't find a way to use it for a part of the senders' mail
address. It seems it doesn't even work when you enter the *complete*
mail address, as long as the display name is different. .
I don't know if it works if you create a group in your address book,
and I'm not inclined to keep an ever-changing group of several hundred
people current, anyway..

 

[Diane Poremsky]

for more advanced things, you need to access it from the Views dialog - do
you see the advanced button to the right of the screen? Click it and choose
autoformatting.

 

[Guest]

Been struggling with this for ages...
Has this ever been answered or is it not possible?
Thanks,

 

[Alex Wenzel]

Been struggling with this for ages...
Has this ever been answered or is it not possible?
Thanks,

Maybe that's a job for a VBA programmer, to bring together the right
filter (look for specific domain part of sender's address) and the
right action (auto-formatting)? With Outlook's stock tools, it seems
impossible, although the parts seem to be there.

 

[Mitix]

I've succeeded to change the color of the messages coming from a specific domain. That's how I did it: Tools ->Organize->Using Colors. After that, in the text box between "from" and "color" (the middle one where it appeared the mail address which I was on), I manually typed (this is an example): yahoo.com and clicked Apply Color button; and typed again @yahoo.com and clicked Apply Color button; and typed again (e-mail address removed) and clicked Apply Color button; and typed again *@yahoo and clicked Apply Color button. And that was wall. To verify, I clicked on Automatic Formatting button, and all manually introduced options were there. And it worked. Now, all my messages from yahoo domain are colored in one single color.