Tip: Don't Want Outlook Notification About EVERY email?

Consider this scenario: You get a lot of emails that aren't quite spam, but you don't want to be notified about them.

(Maybe they come from the office pest or a mailing list you only occasionally read)

So you created a rule in outlook that moves them into your inbox and marks the item as 'read'.

While the rule works fine -- you still get that annoying popup about every single message!

My boss found the solution this morning and shared it with us:

What you have to do is create TWO rules:

1. The first rule marks it as read.
2. the second rule moves it to the folder

Make sure the two rules are executed in that order!

Now the email will still come in, but the popup won't be displayed.

(This is written up in a KB article at microsoft... i don't have the number for it right now... here's a google groups message about it)

'Marty Thompson' on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:35:43 GMT, sez:

That's strange, that rule that you say is "Not good enough" works for me with respect to notifications. The only time I receive a notification is for e-mails that don't fit one of my rules, except for the one rule that I have that I explicitly tell to notify me.

The rule text that does notify me is:
--
Apply this rule after the message arrives
sent only to me
and with *subject text* in the subject
move it to the *folder name* folder
and display a Desktop Alert
--

All of my other rules are the same, just without that last line.

'Chris' on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:35:14 GMT, sez:

Man, I've been trying to do something like this for ages. Thanks for the tip!

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