I was wondering if there is a way to send an email to a specific folder using the email address alone? I mean, I want to “cc” myself and get it into my own personal Outlook folder at home. I was thinking there must be some way to encode a path into the email address, maybe like: yatta@yatta.com/myfolder ?
I know I can set up rules on the receiving end of things, but what about the sending end of things? Has anyone had success here?
Thanks,
I’d have to say, No, there isn’t.
You have to remember that when you send email, you’re not actually sending the message to the other person’s computer directly. Instead, you send it to a mailserver, and the other person has to go and “pick it up”. Therefore, managing the message is up to the person receiving it.
The easiest way to do this, as you already said is using message rules on the receiving computer.
It’s all in the rules! (says the guy with about 25 active rules in his mailboxes)
Set up a rule that looks at messages as they’re sent - from yourself and to yourself - kick it over to the desired folder. Then, just send your emails out with yourself as a BCC.
If you want to archive mail you send out from work to a folder at home, it’s actually simpler. Just have a rule to move mail from yourself@work to the deisred folder. You’ll need to add “yourself@work” to your Contacts list.
I’ll leave the exact way of doing this to you as it vaires a bit between versions of Outlook.