Outlook includes a Junk Email filter. This filter cannot be updated by the end user and Microsoft stopped releasing updates for it in November 2016. For most users, setting the Junk email filter set to high is good enough, especially if their mail is also scanned by a server side anti-spam filter. If it does
How Exchange Assistant Rules Work
This technical discussion first appeared on the msexchange discussion list on September 6, 1996. Thanks to Scott Briggs of Microsoft to allowing his explanation to be republished here. Technically, rules are not profile-specific. The Exchange Server itself has no knowledge of profiles in the client sense. The profile-specific nature of rules is merely the way
Create a rule to delete mail after a number of days
You can combine a Rules Wizard rule with the AutoArchive feature of Microsoft Outlook to automatically delete messages as they age. There are two ways you can do this: Create a rule that moves messages meeting certain criteria to a folder. Configure the folder's Archive setting to delete messages. Setting an expire date on messages
Create rules that apply to an entire domain
How to create a rule so that all emails from a specific server (example microsoft.com) go into a specific folder.
How to back up Outlook's Rules and Alerts Rules
How to backup your Outlook Rules
To Make Automatic Reply Rules
Using Microsoft Outlook, you can create rules to reply automatically to incoming messages with the Rules Wizard and Out of Office Assistant.
Out-of-Office is missing or grayed out
The Out-of-Office Assistant is missing Out-of-office Assistant is for Microsoft Exchange mailboxes only. Look for it on the File menu is Outlook 2010 or on the Tools menu in older versions. If you don't have an Exchange mailbox, you'll need to replicate it's actions using Rules Wizard, or better yet, use your email server's "vacation
Exchange Server's Rules Limitation
Microsoft Exchange server, including Office 365 Exchange Online and Outlook.com, as well as on-prem Exchange servers, limit the number of rules a user can have in an Exchange mailbox. The limit is based on total size, not number of rules, so one user might have 20 rules while another has 30. Exchange 2003 and older
Creating a Public Journal for Outlook
A major shortcoming with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server is the lack of an obvious method for creating public journal entries for contact records in a public folder. I explain the problem and include some possible approaches developed by the Exchange/Outlook community.
Avoid duplicate messages caused by Outlook's Rules Wizard
A user cam to me with this problem: I have 2 email accounts (EmailA & EmailB) and two subfolders (FolderA & FolderB) under my INBOX folder where mail for each account. I'm using rules to move the mail to the correct folder: specific words under sender's (emailA) and recipient's (emailA) address and move it to