One of the most sought features of an e-mail program is the ability to automatically route, print and otherwise process incoming messages — and outgoing messages as well.
These tools provide automatic messaging functions for specific situations. General message processing tools are at Automatic Messaging Processing Tools.
Tools in the Spotlight
Three-in-one solution. Attachments Processor allows extracting attachments from the incoming messages and save them to your hard disk (extracted attachments are replaced in the incoming message with a link to the file on the disk or a text file with an attachment description as well and a link to it). Attachments Zip Compressor: allows automatic archiving the attached files by ZIP both for incoming and outgoing messages. It can create self-extracting archives and password-protected archives. Blocked Attachments management: utility for managing the list of attachment types, which are blocked by the Outlook security system. | |
CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro goes beyond standard Hub Transport email rules on Microsoft Exchange 2007 or 2010 and lets you fully control email flow, filter messages and add signatures and branding to email. It is easier to use than Exchange native tools and it gives you everything Exchange offers, and also a lot of new features Exchange admins consider as a must-have. Quickly create group forward rules, auto-responders, filter messages, control email content, rewrite sender's addresses, tag messages, add signatures and disclaimers, and much more. | |
One of the utilities in the MAPILab Toolbox, Email Scheduler allows you to chedule messages to be sent at specific date/times or intervals by setting up a task for each message. MAPILab Toolbox is a set of 18 different add-ins for Outlook. | |
Create and send personalized individually addressed e-mail messages using an easy Wizard in Outlook - plain text, HTML or rich text. Your recipient list can be in Outlook, Exchange Global Address Lists, Excel or Access files. You can use Categories or Distribution Lists to keep mailing lists. You can even defer and batch send your emails to get around ISP restrictions. This is your complete Outlook based solution for e-mail newsletters, business announcements and sales & marketing emails.Supports Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003,2007 and Outlook 2010. | |
Exclaimer Auto Responder is a multi-functional tool which allows you to automate replies to emails, redirect messages, add and remove senders and recipients from emails, as well as prevent messages from being delivered. Create personalised auto responses by including the sender's original message, add company branding, and attach files such as brochures and leaflets. Redirect messages to new domains or group mailboxes instead of sending to individuals. Change the senders and recipients of emails by switching from individual mailboxes to team mailboxes as well as being able to Cc and Bcc extra contacts. Exclaimer Auto Responder works with Exchange Server 2007 and 2010. | |
Send a special message to your PC running Outlook 2000 or 2002 and this utility, and your computer will mail back the file you need. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout. | |
IMI Attendees Print is small utility specially designed for Microsoft Outlook users to print the names of the people who have been invited to a meeting. Obtain information for Meeting Request items from any Outlook Appointment folder. Print the names of the people who have been invited to a meeting and print the response status - Accepted, Declined, Tentative, or None. Save and export report in Word, Excel, RTF, PDF, or HTML format. Compatible with Outlook 2000/2002/2003/2007 and Exchange Server 5.5/2000/2003. | |
NEO Pro 5.0 is an email organizer and search engine for Outlook that indexes emails (including multiple message stores), as they are sent and received, into convenient virtual folders such as Correspondent, Date, Attachment Type and Category for instant access. NEO Pro introduces Conversation View, which allows users to expand the thread in the message list. Includes email notation so that users can add notes to individual messages for future reference. Messages with notes are indexed and available in a virtual folder for quick access. Compatible with Outlook 2010 (32 bits), 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP), 2000, 98 and works with or without Exchange Server. | |
Print Tools for Outlook is a Microsoft Outlook add-in. It will help you automatically print incoming and outgoing messages with attachments (as well as messages and attachments separately). The plug-in automatically unpacks and prints packed .ZIP and .RAR attachments, and supports manual and automatic modes. Used with Microsoft Outlook rules, the Print Tools plug-in allows you to create a system that will automatically print messages and/or attached files. You can either specify (or forbid) which file types will be printed or print an attachment separately from its message. | |
File 90% of your emails at the click of a button. Manage your Inbox and Sent Items folders. Move emails out of the Inbox to the correct folder at the click of a button. QuickFile remembers the folders used for each person and presents a short customized list each time. Use the same list to Send&File in one step instead of having to go back to your Sent Items folder. Plus many more email management features such as one-click creation of task/appointments from emails, newsletter processing, deferred non-urgent emails and much more. | |
Sperry Software's Safeguard Send Add-In for Outlook checks outgoing emails for violations of conditions - if you're sending to specific domains, or if you're sending outside of the company, if you're emails have certain (potentially classified) keywords, or if you're sending to too many people at once, and more. It also now has support for Outlook 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit. Free, fully functional, 14 day trials are available. | |
Set up automatic forwarding of either all messages or only messages that meet certain criteria. You can choose what information goes into the forwarded message -- subject, received time, sender, message body. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout. |
Tools
Add Email Address is an Outlook add-in that puts people you reply to in Contacts. It can also scan your Inbox and create contacts out of all those email addresses. It now supports Outlook 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit. | |
Client-based notification tool for Outlook folders, including Exchange Server public folders. Now supports Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. Freeware. | |
Automatically adds appointments to calendar based on date information in simple e-mail messages. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout. | |
Helps control the storage space needed for Exchange/Outlook messages by removing attachments from Exchange mailboxes. Rules and other tools for managing attachments. Rules can be set up to act on arrival, on reading, on sending or after so many days. | |
Sperry Software's Auto Print Add-In for Outlook has support for Outlook 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit. In addition, it now has the ability to print emails and/or attachments to any printer, not just the default printer. Margins, number of copies, print first page only - many new options are also now available, and Sperry Software now has fully functional 14-day trial versions on its entire product line. | |
Sample Exchange Server script for turning Out of Office on and off, based on what appointments the user has in the Calendar folder. | |
Offers "Reply As Folder" functionality with option to force the use of the From address when replying as folder (controlled centrally). Sent items can be filed in a sent items sub folder. Appends Company Signature based on sender domain Suffix. By default, it blocks external mail sending except From group folders. Has centralized application management and error logging. Trial version available. | |
ContactCopy creates Outlook contacts from text containing contact information (like email signatures, contact data on websites, etc.) ContactCopy recognizes addresses and phone numbers from the USA and more than 20 European countries. | |
Tool to organize your Outlook mail, learning by example as you sort your mail into customizable categories, such as Spam and Later. Outlook 2000 or later. | |
eMail Manager is an addin designed for Outlook 2007 or 2010 to assist the user in filing / archiving and retrieving emails in a consistent and efficient way. Messages are either saved in Outlook / Exchange folders or as MSG files in the file system. The file message dialog presents you with a list of recent save locations and a range of options for dealing with attachments. As mail is sent eMail Manager pops up a dialog prompting you to save or delete the sent message. Messages saved into the file system are consistently named with a configurable filename format. | |
E-mail Sorter Wizard gives the end-user the ability to save and direct incoming and outgoing e-mails. No need for the old drag and drop techniques, just click on the message and the e-mail is automatically filed. | |
Automatically downloads emails from web forms and third party sites, processes them into Outlook and assigns follow-up whenever a lead fills up a Web Form on your web site. Send an Auto-Response Email to the incoming email and also Distribute the Lead email among your Lead Processing Team. Can also create contacts from structured text files, in addition to mail messages.(Formerly Web Response Grabber) | |
Email2DB is an email processor and auto-responder. It is a tool you can use to parse and extract data from form-based emails to integrate with your business data. If you receive orders, invoices, support enquiries, web site feedback forms or any of form based data by email. Email2DB can process emails from POP3, IMAP and Exchange Servers - plus directly from Microsoft Outlook 2003 folders. Email2DB will print custom reports, update Outlook contacts, save attachments to specific folders, send auto-responses, control Windows processes, run scripts & macros - all from received emails. Version 1.9 | |
Addin for Outlook 2000 or later that monitors a particular file for changes and automatically sends an update to a list of recipients with the latest file attached. | |
Scans the Inbox folder for all incoming e-mail (including faxes) and forwards it to an address you choose. For example, it can be used to forward all incoming faxes from an unattended computer to an administrator’s account. 18 Apr 96. | |
The Lucatec Mask Add-in for Outlook is used with Exchange server accounts which allows you to reply from a shared mailbox or public folder, automatically entering the folder or mailbox's email address in the From field. Lucatec Mask will automatically determine the correct sender address to use based on the mailbox or public folder the user is currently using in Outlook. It also offers the option to move or copy the sent message to the relevant account's Sent Items folder (or Public Folder). It supports shared Exchange Server mailbox accounts and Public Folders with email addresses. Works with Outlook 2000-2010. Version 3 | |
Monitors mailboxes, Exchange Server Public Folders, POP, and IMAP4 accounts. Available in English, Russian and Italian; can be customized to local language. Now includes support for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for POP3/IMP4 protocols. Version 4.5. | |
MP*Print is a plug-in integrated into the Rules Wizard as a Custom Action used to automatically print email and/or attachments. Options include the ability to select the printer according to your own filters created with the Assistant, select different printers for the body of the message and for the attachments. Define the list of authorized extensions (for example .doc, .rtf, .txt, if you only want to print text files and Word files). MP*Print handles any attachment format if the application is available on the computer, including HTML attachments. | |
OfficeJunior takes the monotony out of entering data received from web forms. No more printing out the form and passing it to someone to enter, or yourself, when you have time. OfficeJunior analyses the email as it is received into Outlook, then depending upon the criteria you set will start on the custom actions that you have defined. Works with Outlook 2000, Outlook 2003, Outlook XP | |
OOF (Out Of Office) Automation is a VBScript-based automation of switching the OOF Assistant on automatically when the respective user has entered an "away" appointment and back to off when there is no "away" appointment anymore. | |
With OOF-Admin you can manage the Out of Office settings of Outlook/Exchange users: Out of Office message text and status (fully compatible with extended Out of Office features of Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007).Out of Office rules (Enable/Disable rules, Create new rules, Delete/Modify existing rules; Folder Permissions (including the new Free/Busy permissions of Outlook/Exchange 2007) Version 3. | |
Reset the Microsoft Exchange Out of Office Assistant to send Out of Office notification mails more than once. | |
Exchange 5.5 and 2000 management tool to modify out-of-office response settings for a user or group of users. | |
Free content-classification (e.g. anti-spam) tool for Outlook 2000 or later, using the open-source POPFile classification utility. Methods include Bayesian analysis, whitelist (can import from Outlook contacts), and keyword and regular expression matches. Can monitor any Outlook folder (including PST, Exchange, IMAP, and Hotmail) and handle new items, moving them to other folders, deleting them, marking them as read, or playing an alert. Training mode allows you to set your own definition of spam (or other classifications). Triggers Outlook security prompts during contact import. | |
Email Merge Personalized Individually Addressed Invitations, Greetings and Sales Letters at the click of a button. Supports Outlook 2000,2002, 2003 and 2007, with or without Word as Editor. | |
All the disclaimer and signature features of Policy Patrol Disclaimer, plus rules-based message and attachment filtering, spam blocking with real-time black lists, white lists, and other methods, anti-virus using the Kaspersky anti-virus engine, off-peak delivery of large messages, reports on sent and received messages and other management features, automatic printing, customized NDRs and DSNs, automatic conversion of messages to plain text, automatic compression and decompression, archiving to SQL, XML, or CSV. | |
Grabs mail messages and attachments, combining and saving into a text file, assigning a sequential number. Also includes TextPipe, which cleans up the formatting and inserts the text file into a database. Designed for use with resumés, but could have other applications as well. | |
COM add-in for Outlook 2003/2007 that automatically fills in the correct From address when the user is responding to a message in another user's Exchange mailbox. (Use it with the UniSent add-in from the same site. UniSent keeps the outgoing messages in the Sent Items folder of the other users mailbox.) Version 1.7.0.4 | |
Send Guard will detect and prompt you whenever you make any of these mistakes and more: forget to send an attachment you promised in a message, Reply-to-All or forget to Reply-to-All, send emails using the wrong email account, send emails with blank or incorrect subjects, said something you oh-so-knew-better than to say. Works with Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007. Version 1.0.75 Free trial available. | |
Use Single Click Filing for Outlook to file your messages in Outlook. You can define up to 10 filing folders each with its own toolbar button and use the corresponding shortcuts (Alt+1, Alt+2, … , Alt+0) to quickly and easily file messages. Free trial. | |
COM add-in for Outlook 2000 or 2002 to tag incoming mail messages with information from a database, so you can more easily identify messages from clients. Also checks for large or missing attachments on outgoing messages. |
More Information
- Contact Management Tools — Many of these utilities include autoresponders as one method of managing communications with contacts.
- Content Control Tools — Includes tools to filter incoming and outgoing messages for content and attachments
- Message Extraction Tools — To pull information automatically from incoming messages for use in databases, replies, etc.
- Pager Tools — To automatically forward messages to a pager
- Notification Tools — For enhanced alerts when new messages arrive
- Microsoft Exchange Server Scripting and Routing — Building server-based automatic processing applications
- A Visual Basic-based Active Messaging Inbox Agent
- OL Overview of Programming with Rules
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Last reviewed on Jan 15, 2012











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