On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > It is far more likely that you can change the build system than you can > change Outlook. :-)
LOL - yes, I believe that with all my heart. Though I suspect I'll get a bit of pushback on changing the emails from the build system. > Take a look at places such as MapiLabs and slipstick.com to see if they have > advanced rule processing add-ins. That's reasonable. > But the build system probably has a little script sending the emails that > could be changed to "Build succeeded 1.2.4.x.x.x" and you can match only on > the first part. I'd check that out. That's the best bet, I think. Thanks, Kurt > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 6:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Exchange] Outlook rules 'and-ing' on a subject line? > > User gets build notifications in email - lots of them. > > User wishes to discard irrelevant notices, and would like to do so by > examining the subject line with a rule. > > There are emails from multiple build processes, for various iterations of our > products. > > So, he will get notices for, e.g. > Build 1.2.4.x.x.x failed > Build 1.2.4.x.x.x succeeded > Build 1.2.6.x.x.x failed > Build 1.2.6.x.x.x succeeded > > He'd like to discard only the > build 1.2.4.x.x.x succeeded > messages. > > I don't see a way to do that on the subject line alone, so I've asked him to > see if there are unique elements in the body of the discardable messages as > that plus the subject line fragment 'Build 1.2.4.x.x.x' > should be a sufficient and condition. > > But I'd like to know if I'm missing any bets. I've already done a fair amount > of SFTW, and found the universal claim that you can't use wildcards, so > that's out. > > Any other ideas? > > Kurt > >
