Outlook 2003 mail rules

[Swifty]

Is it possible to change a rule so that the connection between
conditions is OR rather than AND?

I'd like to apply the same rule to mail that goes *to* someone or comes
*from* them (move it to their folder)

This looks fundamentally impossible, as you have to chose upfront
whether your rule will handle incoming or outgoing mail, and those
choices are mutually exclusive.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Create two rules to move the mail to the same folder - one that acts on
outgoing and one that acts on incoming.

 

[Swifty]

Create two rules to move the mail to the same folder - one that acts on

outgoing and one that acts on incoming.

That was the answer I was fearing. Combined with the fact that I cannot
specify a distribution in the rules, and I have about 40 people in the
distribution list, then I'm looking at 80 rules. I've heard that
distribution lists are possible in conjunction with exchange, but I'm
not using that.

Still, as I usually end up saying: Knowing that something cannot be done
is the next best thing to knowing that it can.

 

[Brian Tillman]

That was the answer I was fearing. Combined with the fact that I
cannot specify a distribution in the rules,

Why can you not specify a distribution in the rules? They'll work without
Exchange as well.

 

[Swifty]

Why can you not specify a distribution in the rules? They'll work

without Exchange as well.

I get the message:
'Disreputable Villains' is a personal distribution list that may not be
used with this feature. Would you like to use the individual members of
'Disreputable Villains' instead?

The outcome of this is that I would have to delete, and recreate the
rule each time the list changed. Which is quite frequently.

This is why I assumed it needed an exchange server to function as you'd
want it to.