Outlook 2003 rules not completely compatible with Exchange

[MIke Brown]

Hello,

We've recently deployed Exchange 2003, and found out that now rules
with the "with specified words in the sender's address" no longer work,
since Exchange doesn't seem to add a header in the messages. Any
outside email works fine with the rules (internet email), but internal
exchange stuff completely bypasses the rules.

Is there any way to configure outlook to mimic this functionality?
Rules such as "move all email from domain '@xyz.com' into this folder'
are fairly improtant to us. I'm also looking into exchange to see if
there is a way to add headers.


-Michael Brown

 

[Roady [MVP]]

There are no headers because the message isn't transfered over the Internet.
Delivery is instant. The rule would only be for your own domain then? You
can then use the rule "sender is in specified Address Book" and select your
Global Address List.

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


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Hello,

We've recently deployed Exchange 2003, and found out that now rules
with the "with specified words in the sender's address" no longer work,
since Exchange doesn't seem to add a header in the messages. Any
outside email works fine with the rules (internet email), but internal
exchange stuff completely bypasses the rules.

Is there any way to configure outlook to mimic this functionality?
Rules such as "move all email from domain '@xyz.com' into this folder'
are fairly improtant to us. I'm also looking into exchange to see if
there is a way to add headers.


-Michael Brown

 

[MIke Brown]

Yea that rule was the first thing I thought of, only for some reason it
didn't work. We have several address lists created, one for each
company on the exchange server. The rule doesn't pick up on the
contacts for some reason, and yes they are all exchange users.

I've been trying to find some addons for exchange that can add headers
into the message, such as filling in the To and From information for
exchange messages. There are multiple problems with how exchange deals
with this, such as having users with multiple smtp addresses on
multiple domains, and your rules can't determine which addresses that
people sent to (or what user at what domain the email came from!)

Exchange's SMTP integration doesn't seem to flow well in an internal
environment. Maybe I'll consider writing my own addons for this.


-Michael Brown