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[Stefan Eckert]

Hi Bill,
 

Thank you so much!

This is quite another approach which i didn't think of, not completely
automatic but definitely useful and acceptable.

In Germany we call this "um die Ecke denken" - thinking outside the box ;-)

Anyway, thanks again!


Greetings,
Stefan



Am 18.09.08 14:49 schrieb "William Smith" unter <mecklists at comcast.net>:


> On Thursday 9/18/08 3:44 AM, "Stefan Eckert" <eckert at tecarchitecture.com>

> wrote:

> 

>> Yes, exactly - always the same address. Reason is that my superiors don't

>> trust that much in eternal reliability/accessibility/compatibility of

>> electronic e-mail backups ;-) So every e-mail received has to be forwarded

>> to a specific address to be later printed out for traditional paperful

>> storage... uuuhh!

>> 

>> But checking every e-mail manually if... then... is annoying and time

>> consuming, on the other hand i don't want my (few, but private) private

>> e-mails to be forwarded automatically.

> 

> How about this instead, which would be easier to implement:

> 

> Instead of prompting you to forward you could simply assign a category

> called something like "Forward?". That way you don't have a dialog that

> could get in the way and you can use a Custom View to show you all messages

> with that category?

> 

> In that same rule you can add a criterion "Display dialog", which will alert

> you that you've received messages you need to check. Altogether it would

> look like:

> 

>     Rule name: Forward this?

> 

>     If

>     Any CC: Recipient Does not Contain someone at company.invalid

> 

>     Then

>     Set category "Forward?"

>     Display dialog "Check your Forward Custom View for messages

>         that may need forwarding."

> 

> Hope this helps!




Greetings from Switzerland
S. Eckert



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