Filters in Exchange

Ok, so the unis decided for us, that the exchange email service is better as it provides a wider range of tools than the old system.

 Has anyone figured out how to set up filters???

 I get god knows how many {Spam?} emails and now have no way to get rid of them automatically from my emails

I dont want a calendar, i dont want public folders, i dont want all the other useless junk that exchange provides, i want email tools that do their job!

I always figured, if its not broke dont fix it, if you ask me the unis just gone and broke a perfectly good system 

 If anyone knows how to to setup subject, body, from addy filters could they let me know?

Cheers, dan 

Posted at 10:24:22 on 18-03-2008

i have the same problem. atm i am just moving all junk email into the junk email folder.

Although saying that i recieved spam on my webmail account as well. yet nothing as graphic as what has taken to appearing on my new email address.

anyone worked out what to do? 

Posted at 16:09:50 on 26-03-2008

you might want to check out this ISS page here

this clever thing deletes the spam emails before they even get to your inbox 

Posted at 19:05:37 on 26-03-2008

I agree with Becky - it's too easy to lose emails completely if you use the automatic spam delete (oddly, mine tend to be professional ones too).

I agree that the junk problem appears worse with Exchange, which is odd...but then again, webmail was plain text only, so it just didn't display HTML content.  You can set the OWA to do text only (I think) - but looking back at some of the emails I've received from new students/staff in the past, they're much nicer in HTML (and have things like bold and italics for emphasis).

The only bit I really dislike (apart from the accessibility), is the way they display your name; I could live with the Thunderbirds jokes, but it now looks quite crude.

Posted at 13:50:41 on 27-03-2008

Ditto 

Posted at 23:12:24 on 30-03-2008

After a week using the cut-down version of Exchange, my opinion's mixed. 

 I think it is useful to be able to see when staff are busy/out of the office without spending half an hour walking into uni to look at the timetables stuck to their doors (but that may not be a uni-wide phenomenon). 

The global address book is less tiresome than the old contacts list was - I can see that being handy around Freshers week/from a clubs and socs, particularly with the 'new style' email addys.

I think the main problem with it is the level of accessibility.  Because it's browser-based, you lose a lot of keyboard shortcuts and so need to be able to use a mouse or count your tabs (think I just exactly 40 to get to the help button in the full version of OWA, which means I will be using google).  I know that OWA says you should use the 'light' version if you have access needs, but then you lose some of the functionality.  The help window in itself isn't great, as there's no search function, which means more key presses.

At least there are some keyboard shortcuts I suppose (just need to change my macros from e.g. 'tab, enter' to 'alt+s')

Posted at 09:30:46 on 03-04-2008