Quasi Whitelist Outlook rule

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General DogBreath

Greetings all;
I've read much discussion (mainly on mailing lists) about the impossibility
of creating a whitelist simply in Outlook. I wonder however if the same
could be accomplished via other rules-based means, such as the following:
Rules 1 thru [xx] puts email from desired senders into [whatever] folders
Now you're left with various forms of junk.

How would you write a rule that deletes whatever is left??

Regards & TIA
-Colin
 
I do it like this:

rule 1) categorises mail from known senders - (e.g. is sets the category as
'known')
rule 2) moves any mail whose category is not 'known' to a folder called
'junk'.

outlook 2003 junk does this for you anyway.

N
 
Good approach, lemme do some work on it and see what the overall effect is.
I honestly never gave a moments' thought to trying the category
approach...good idea! It just goes to show that "net seeing the wood for the
trees" is always apt.
Thanks!!
-Colin
Neil said:
I do it like this:

rule 1) categorises mail from known senders - (e.g. is sets the category as
'known')
rule 2) moves any mail whose category is not 'known' to a folder called
'junk'.

outlook 2003 junk does this for you anyway.

N
General DogBreath said:
Greetings all;
I've read much discussion (mainly on mailing lists) about the impossibility
of creating a whitelist simply in Outlook. I wonder however if the same
could be accomplished via other rules-based means, such as the following:
Rules 1 thru [xx] puts email from desired senders into [whatever] folders
Now you're left with various forms of junk.

How would you write a rule that deletes whatever is left??

Regards & TIA
-Colin
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Neil said:
I do it like this:

rule 1) categorises mail from known senders - (e.g. is sets the category as
'known')
rule 2) moves any mail whose category is not 'known' to a folder called
'junk'.

outlook 2003 junk does this for you anyway.
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With the range of possibilities available in Rules Wizard I'm not sure I see
a way to do rule 2.
What seems to be possible to move a message if the category is known and
assigned, but what doesn't seem obvious is how to do it the opposite way,
i.e. if a category is *not* assigned.
Ideas or understanding in more detail how *you* did it would sure help.
Thanks very much for the idea!!

BTW, I agree with you about Outlook 2003, I have that on my home machine but
this laptop is a corporate creature, and I gotta stick with Outlook XP

Regards & Thanks!!
-Colin
 
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