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Understanding the Safe and Blocked Senders lists

Understanding and using Outlook's Junk Mail Safe Sender, Safe Recipient, and Blocked sender's lists.

Outlook's Rules and Alerts: Run a Script

How to use Outlook's Rules Wizard Run a Script action to process messages using VBA. Using Run a Script rules will allow you to use actions not available in the Rules Wizard.

Rules in Error and Reply with Template

This bug was fixed in Outlook 2010 in the July 2011 hotfix. Beginning with Outlook 2007 SP2 (and continuing in Outlook 2010), there is a bug in the rules engine which causes reply with template rules to fail. I was hoping for a hotfix when I saw a newly released KB article referring to "Rules  

Filter Internal Mail from External Mail

Create a rule in Outlook to filter messages sent from Internet Addresses when you use Exchange Server.

Use a rule to filter all messages from a mailing list

In most cases, the distinguishing feature of a mailing list is the To address. Therefore, that's what you should use to create the rule. The important thing to remember is that you want to use the underlying e-mail address, not the display name, which can vary depending on how different people send to the list.  

Rules and Tools to Filter Junk Mail

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

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