Do you need to track requests you send via E-mail?

I heard about this from someone I worked with in Canada last month. (Thanks Trent!) In his work-world, he sends E-mails that he needs to track - E-mails to his team as well as outside clients. Because not EVERY E-mail needs to be watched, he set up a "rule" inside of Outlook [he is using Outlook 2007] so that if he puts his own name into the BCC field, his E-mail routes directly to a .Waiting folder

Create “.Waiting” folder
Set rule to Move all files from your email address to the “.Waiting” folder
Except where your email is in the To: or CC: field.

I asked him if he'd send me the "step-by-step" directions for this, and he send me the above three lines. I will admit, I was expecting a much more detailed explanation...but, if it's this easy to set up, it might REALLY be worth you trying it out!

I use Entourage, and here is what my .Waiting folder looks like. click on the image below:

Comments

[Jason W. Womack, MEd, MA]

Jeroen,

Thank you VERY much for this link...I'd not seen it yet!

[Jeroen]

Another trick is to simply put [w] in the message body and set up a rule to copy those messages to the Waiting For folder after sending. The site http://waiting-for.com/ explains how to set this up in Outlook.