Question on MS Outlook Rules

Kevy Baby · 05-07-2014, 07:45 PM

This is a cross-post from FaceBook - sorry for the duplication, but there are a couple of people here that I know wouldn't see it there.

Here's a question for anyone who is an expert at Microsoft Outlook rules. (Outlook 10 off a corporate server - our corporate tech department is too understaffed to be able to handle this.)

We sent out an email blast (legit - we're not spammers) as an invitation to an open house. Naturally, we are getting auto-responses of bad addresses, etc. Since there is no uniform auto-response format, I can't think of a way to automatically search for an email address within that response message (so that we can gather these and take corrective actions). Right now the solution is put a low-level employee on the task and manually capture, but I love automation.

I know how to trigger the rule (come up with a set of keywords to search in subject and/or body) - it's the capturing of the email address that I can't figure out. The only two possibilities that I saw were to either Run a Script or Perform a Custom Action. However, I'm clueless how/if either of these actions work.

Any ideas? Or should we just put a grunt on it (as in: it would take more time to author the solution than it would take to just have the grunt do it)?

05-07-2014, 07:45 PM	#1
Kevy Baby Chowder Head Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yes Posts: 18,500	Question on MS Outlook Rules This is a cross-post from FaceBook - sorry for the duplication, but there are a couple of people here that I know wouldn't see it there. Here's a question for anyone who is an expert at Microsoft Outlook rules. (Outlook 10 off a corporate server - our corporate tech department is too understaffed to be able to handle this.) We sent out an email blast (legit - we're not spammers) as an invitation to an open house. Naturally, we are getting auto-responses of bad addresses, etc. Since there is no uniform auto-response format, I can't think of a way to automatically search for an email address within that response message (so that we can gather these and take corrective actions). Right now the solution is put a low-level employee on the task and manually capture, but I love automation. I know how to trigger the rule (come up with a set of keywords to search in subject and/or body) - it's the capturing of the email address that I can't figure out. The only two possibilities that I saw were to either Run a Script or Perform a Custom Action. However, I'm clueless how/if either of these actions work. Any ideas? Or should we just put a grunt on it (as in: it would take more time to author the solution than it would take to just have the grunt do it)? __________________ The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot verify their validity. - Abraham Lincoln
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