25th December 2000
I'm all about making life easier. When a process can be automated without much extra effort, then why shouldn't it be? Make some rules for your e-mail client to follow! Why even bother bringing this up? I want to encourage you to dig a little deeper before wasting more energy; a little bit of research can save you a lot of time in the long run. For instance, from the Outlook 2000 Rules Wizard, you can automatically print incoming messages from designated people, modify an outgoing message based on its recipient(s), or color-code messages sent by friends, co-workers, or your best friend's girlfriend. Outlook Express has a watered-down set of rules for you to use, too... like autoresponding to messages (with pre-defined templates) based on content. Do you have a filter turned on for obliterating junk e-mail? Then your client probably "rules" (so to speak). Check the appropriate help file(s) for further instructions or ask in the Lockergnome newsgroups.