Mjordan2nd

My dad's company often offers free tickets to Rockets games. The offers are emailed to people that work at the company, and the first person to respond usually gets the tickets. Now, many times my father is not at his desk, or other people are just so unbelievably quick to reply that my father never even has a chance. Is there a way I could get outlook to scan all new emails for a certain keyword, and then have it automate a response on the condition that the keyword is found?

If this is doable, could someone please point me in a direction into where I could learn about that. I would prefer learning how to do it in C/C++, but a quick link to a document that describes how to do what I mentioned above in any language is fine.

Thanks.

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Hockeyman

The easiest way would to set up a "Rules and Alerts" rule in "Tools" - you'll have the option for outlook to scan either the subject line or the message itself (or both) for certain words or key phrases, and reply by itself with a message you set.

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Pizentios

yeah what hockeyman said is about the quickest and easyest.

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Mjordan2nd

Well, that would be a lot easier than writing a script to do that for me. Didn't know you could do that. Thanks for letting me know.

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Hockeyman

no problem - I'd be lost without it (at least the part that auto-deletes emails) - our "Wellness Centre" (health and wellbeing centre) at work has a tendency to send out a flood of crap advertizing what new services they've got - if I wanted to know that I can have someone at work flood my colon with green tea and mineral water or stick very small needles into my knees while burning vanilla incense and chanting, I'll look into it myself, I don't need 47 emails about it

(please note that I don't necessarily have a problem with others taking advantages of these services, just the emails)

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bl00dninja

yeah, outlook is a bit of a pain, but the "rules" stuff is really helpful. i have a "rule" at work that takes all messages with a certain string in the title and automatically puts it in the trash can because we get these gay-ass "alert messages" from multiple senders that are always about something like the new name for the cafeteria or some fat old administration person's birthday.

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