Enable auto-tag of Outlook emails based on text in From, To/CC/BCC, Subject, Body, Folder Name, Category
Enhance auto-tagging for Outlook emails. Allow rules that search for a string (or RegEx) in any of the following fields: From, To, CC, BCC, Subject, Body, Categories, and Folder. Also, store the item IDs for Outlook items, and then allow the user to re-run the auto-tag rules so that the rule could find and use each items current folder and categories.
Jon Freed
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for a lot of users outlook plugin reports a connection warning constanly, so this plugin is not installed by default.
We get some information from outlook and that can be used as regex or just a normal filter in autoags,
Source of the plugin can be found here:
So if anybody wants to get some special data from outlook they can modify the source.
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Thomas Hadley
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just showing the subject would be great
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Miriam
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I am already using Categories to tag my email and use Mail Rules to do it. It would be great that my timekeeping matched my Mail Categories!
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Jen Lipschitz commented
I have that problem with the Outlook plugin that it constantly shows a warning about connection, but when I have had it temporarily enabled (and ignored the constant warnings), it's been THE MOST USEFUL FEATURE! Any plans to update that plugin or figure out a workaround?
EDIT 7/9/2020: the plugin hasn't given me those warnings/errors in a long time. Not sure if it's something I did, Microsoft did, or ManicTime did, but it's better. Would still appreciate better recognition of actual Subject/Category fields instead of trying to use rules to parse the long text strings that come in.
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marc
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+1 if you realize it for thunderbird as well ;)
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Gary McGregor
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Agreed with Charlie. Having the abiltiy to tag by RegEx (starts with, wildcards in the middle, etc) would be a great benefit
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Charlie Butterworth
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we are looking for auto tagging by regex on incoming sender email address and outgoing first entry in the to email address.
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Part of this can be done if you are using Outlook plugin. It will track to and subject and you can easily use that in autotags.
But there is a problem with the plugin, Outlook is constantly showing warning about connection, so it is not enabled by default.