This page contains a few tips to
- improve the way Outlook Express (called
OE for short) handles messages that it gets for a newsgroup,
- how it displays the messages it gets, and
- how it can help you find your
discussions.
Please make sure you have configured the
options in OE as shown in the Basic
configuration setup page.
We will set up a few rules so that OE
organizes messages to make our life easier. This requires
three rules for OE to manage incoming newsgroup messages.. The
three rules are:
- Tell OE to not get
big messages. These typically contain attachments and
pose a performance and a security risk.
- Tell OE to
get all other messages.
- Tell the program to
watch
your discussions. Together with the
option to color
watched discussions, it becomes easy one's own discussions.
- Finally, check how
OE displays messages after it
applies the three rules to incoming messages.
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No
big messages rule To
create a rule, start by selecting
Tools | Message Rules ► News...
and in the News Rules tab, click
the New... button
In the resulting dialog box,
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Set the condition to
Where the number of
lines in the message is more than lines |
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Set the Actions for your
rule to:
Highlight it with
color,
Mark as Read,
and
Stop processing more
rules |
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Click the underlined
items in the Rule Description section (the
words lines and color). Set the number
of lines to 300
and the color to
maroon. 
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Name the rule
No big messages |
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Download all acceptable sized
messages The second
rule downloads all messages which are not blocked by the
rule above. Set it up as shown below
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Watch own discussions
The third rule, and this is the one
that automatically watches for your discussions is set
up as shown below.
Of course, the From line should
not contain tushar, but should be your own name!
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Result of applying the
three rules Messages
that are flagged as 'watched'
are shown in green.
On the other hand, large messages
that have not been downloaded are shown in maroon
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Finally, how do I read the responses to my question |
