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Mark Kolber
I apologize for the cross-posting, but I couldn't figure out which of
these groups would be the most relevant to my question.
I have been using Outlook at work for a number of years but have used
neither it nor Express at home. Instead I have through the years used
Eudora and more recently, Pocomail. There would be many advantages for
me to move to Outlook (like a unified contact file instead of separate
address books), but there is one thing standing in my way.
I own my own domain. I have a number of email addresses that use the
same pop server for retrieval.
For example, the default pop account on my domain is
"(e-mail address removed)". For personal email, I use
"(e-mail address removed)" and for professional listservs I use
"(e-mail address removed)".
Neither "myname" nor "lists" is a separate pop account. Instead, mail
to these addresses get funneled to "postmaster" at the host level. To
send mail from these addresses, I created "main" and "lists"
email accounts in Eudora, Poco, and now Outlook 2003 which are "send
only" accounts. That part works fine.
I already know that, in Outlook, even though all replies to any of
these addresses will default to "postmaster", I can change accounts
"on the fly" when sending messages. But that's about it.
What I was able to do in both Eudora and Poco was create a incoming
filter (rule) that essentially says:
==============================
If the header of an incoming message includes "(e-mail address removed)"
then
Change the account identification to the "lists" account
EndIf
==============================
with something similar for the main account.
Although Outlook's rules can identify mail with the If condition, I
can't see anyway to assign the Then action.
I noticed that one of the actions to take in the Outlook rules is "run
a script". I was thinking maybe the solution would be a VBA script
that changed the account?
Can anyone help me, or do I have to forget about migrating (again) for
now?
Mark Kolber
Denver, Colorado
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email? Remove ".no.spam"
these groups would be the most relevant to my question.
I have been using Outlook at work for a number of years but have used
neither it nor Express at home. Instead I have through the years used
Eudora and more recently, Pocomail. There would be many advantages for
me to move to Outlook (like a unified contact file instead of separate
address books), but there is one thing standing in my way.
I own my own domain. I have a number of email addresses that use the
same pop server for retrieval.
For example, the default pop account on my domain is
"(e-mail address removed)". For personal email, I use
"(e-mail address removed)" and for professional listservs I use
"(e-mail address removed)".
Neither "myname" nor "lists" is a separate pop account. Instead, mail
to these addresses get funneled to "postmaster" at the host level. To
send mail from these addresses, I created "main" and "lists"
email accounts in Eudora, Poco, and now Outlook 2003 which are "send
only" accounts. That part works fine.
I already know that, in Outlook, even though all replies to any of
these addresses will default to "postmaster", I can change accounts
"on the fly" when sending messages. But that's about it.
What I was able to do in both Eudora and Poco was create a incoming
filter (rule) that essentially says:
==============================
If the header of an incoming message includes "(e-mail address removed)"
then
Change the account identification to the "lists" account
EndIf
==============================
with something similar for the main account.
Although Outlook's rules can identify mail with the If condition, I
can't see anyway to assign the Then action.
I noticed that one of the actions to take in the Outlook rules is "run
a script". I was thinking maybe the solution would be a VBA script
that changed the account?
Can anyone help me, or do I have to forget about migrating (again) for
now?
Mark Kolber
Denver, Colorado
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email? Remove ".no.spam"