Create tasks from email as they arrive using a simple script and Rules Wizard. With a slight variation, you can create a task from the message you are reading in the reading pane. Complete instructions and ready-to-use code samples included.
Count Received Emails
How to display a count of messages received in Outlook today (or received during any period).
Using Rules Wizard
The Rules Wizard for Microsoft Outlook automatically processes both incoming and outgoing messages. You set conditions similar to those used for Microsoft Outlook filters, then indicate what action(s) you want to be performed on messages that meet those conditions. Rules in the Rules Wizard apply to only to mail at the time its downloaded. They
Running Rules on messages after you read them
Running rules on messages after reading them in Outlook.
What Moved a Message to the Junk E-mail Folder?
How did the message get in Outlook's Junk Email folder? Check the InfoBar.
To create a rule with wildcards
How to create an Outlook rules using wildcards.
Create a rule to search for two different phrases in a message
Direct support for this kind of rule was added in Outlook 2000 and is available in all later versions of Outlook. In Outlook 97 and Outlook 98, it requires two rules. Let's say you want to move all messages that contain either "Microsoft Exchange" or "Microsoft Outlook" to a folder named Exchange/Outlook. First, create a
Filter messages forwarded from another user's mailbox
If you connect to Microsoft Exchange Server and are receiving mail sent to more than one address (for example, both to your own mailbox and to a staff member that you're covering for while she's on maternity leave), you will probably want to set up a rule to route the other person's mail into a
Create rules to sort messages by email account
Microsoft Outlook contains a rule condition you can use to sort mail received from multiple email accounts. Use the condition "through specified account", select the account and complete the rule.
Server-side vs. Client-side Rules
You can divide rules into two types - server-side and client-only. Server-side rules are handled entirely by the Exchange Server, independent of the state of the Outlook client. Client-only rules do not execute until the user who created the rule logs in to the Outlook client with the same profile used to create the rule.