What a great list! I just received my first digest earlier today, and you're already addressing my big problem (sending email to specific folders). I do have a follow-up question, though.
(Incidentally, I don't see any way to access the list archives, and I don't see links to a FAQ either, so I'll just plunge in and ask:) The deal is, I have a (perhaps inefficient) way of storing my email within Entourage. For all of my personal correspondence, I file each person's email (and my responses) into a single folder that is labeled with that person's name. I have arranged all of these individual folders as subfolders that are grouped by letter (or by letter groups, really---"A thru C," "D thru G," etc.) Then I put all of *those* folders into a "Personal Mailboxes" folder. This is so that, if I'm not filing correspondence or looking for a particular person's message, I can just keep the whole thing locked away in one folder, and I still have room to see my other miscellaneous email folders. OK. So that's the system. Such as it is. The problem is in the actual filing operation, which I haven't set up to be done automatically. I realize that I could: that is, I could establish rules that would file these messages for me---except for the fact that I don't like to file people's email into their individual folders until AFTER I read the messages. So I keep newer correspondence in the inbox, and what I've always done is go through and manually file the emails as a group when I get tired of how crowded the in-box is. As you can imagine, this system gets very unwieldy, and I've been trying recently to figure out how to set up a filter that will run *only* when I WANT it to, to automatically filter all in-box messages (and my responses to them from the "sent items" file) into the appropriate folders. Yeesh. From what I can see, there is *no* way to do this automatically, short of establishing an individual rule for each person's folder, keeping all of the rules un-enabled, and then manually enabling EACH RULE (one for each person!) every time I want to perform a "run"! (Of course, I'd need to un-enable each of those rules again after the run was complete.) Am I missing something? After many hours of struggling with the problem, I've come to the conclusion that pre-established rules simply cannot be automatically enabled (or disabled) all at once for controlled instances---and furthermore, I can't see how to efficiently perform the enabling/disabling command except by clicking on EACH rule individually. That would be way too tedious---it would be just as easy to stick with my completely manual method. Sigh. Any suggestions here? I've never written an applescript or anything, but man, I'll even try to learn how to do that if that's what it takes. I have to say, I thought that a "manual filter" sort of operation would be a relatively common feature request, and I am really surprised that it doesn't seem to be a feature of Entourage. Sorry for the long post here---I'll try to be less verbose in future. But I wanted to give you all of the details. Any help appreciated--- Beth >From: Bill Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 07:00:24 -0800 >Subject: Re: Methods for tracking emails > > You should be able to define a pretty simple rule that automatically moves > "Book People" emails into a folder. I do this sort of thing all the time, as > I'm sure many E-rage list minions do. Your rules can get quite > sophisticated, and should be able to help you manage exactly what you're > looking to do. > > Tools->Rules... > > Good luck! > > -bill > >> From: Scott Ohlgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 07:54:05 -0700 >> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Methods for tracking emails >> >> I am writing a book, and in the process, am communicating via email with 15 >> or so people over the next 4 months. I would like ideas on the most >> efficient ways to keep track all of these communications. <snipped> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
