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When you are creating a Conditional Formatting rule, click on the Font… button to select a unique color, font, font style and/or size.

Press OK to close the Filter or Search Folder Criteria dialog.

for both /O= and to find all internally sent emails.

On the Messages tab, type the following in the From… field (of course with your own company email domain).

When using a Search Folder, use "Create a custom Search Folder." When using Conditional Formatting, add a new rule with a unique color. Tab View-> View Settings-> Conditional Formatting… View-> Arrange By-> Custom…-> button Automatic Formatting…

Open the “Condition…” or “Criteria…” dialog from the Conditional Formatting dialog or Search Folder.

When creating the Conditional Formatting rule or Search Folder to highlight or only show internal emails, it is best to search for the /O= value and your company’s email domain name is to make sure that internal emails that are sent by different means (like a copier with a “scan to email” functionality or an automated system) are still included as these usually send out with the SMTP address in the From field. Creating the Conditional Formatting rule or Search Folder

Note: To see this value for yourself, you can apply a custom form and make the actual From email address visible as a column as explained in Show sender’s e-mail address as a column in message view. The From filter value /O= allow you to find internally sent Exchange emails. The /O= stands for the beginning of any X.500 address that is being used internally by Exchange to address people that are part of that Exchange organization. The value that needs to be searched for is /O= To find all internally sent Exchange emails, you can do a search or apply a filter based on the From field. Search or filter value for Exchange emails The reason why the described method doesn’t work for internal mail is because Exchange doesn’t use regular SMTP addresses (with the character) for internal mail but X.500 addresses which have a completely different format.īy using another searching value, you can still easily filter out or highlight internal email. It wont make the email red in a reply window but it will make the email red in the inbox window where all of your email is. Picking a bright font color for the phrases that should be noticed for sure may be a good idea in such a case. You can create a conditional format for any email addresses that does not contain your domain name and change it to any color such as red. With dozens of Outlook emails coming weekly, your addressee can probably take just a very quick look at each of them.

by Aksana Pachkouskaya updated on May 13, 2021. Is there a way to achieve this either via Conditional Formatting or a Search Folder for our internal mail as well? Conditional formatting for Outlook email templates. I’ve been successful to do this for several external domains via Conditional Formatting (as described in Highlight mail from a specific domain) but when I try this for our own domain, it doesn’t work. Step 2: In the Rules and Alerts dialog box, click the New Rule button. Note: In Outlook 2007, you can click the Tools > Rules and Alerts. For the category, I can create a rule in Exchange inbox rule and push it to all mailboxes to use a category from existing categories (Orange category) in Outlook and color will be automatically associated.I’m looking for a way to more easily recognize internal mail, i.e. Step 1: Shift to the Mail view, open the specified mail folder, and click the Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts on the Home tab. Or, highlight the email-row with a different font, bold and color. Regarding conditional formatting, I want external emails to flagged by a new category (External-Email category with distinct color) and color. I can stop the Text from adding-up by exchange rule, but couldn't find a way to remove or delete it, Exchange rule does not have anything to do that. We don't want the prefix or the specific Text "External" to be part of reply email, so when someone would reply to any such email, when that email is being sent by Exchange, Exchange should remove/delete it from subject - this is because we want the email looks exactly as original to the recipients and not with any word added/modified into it. Its easy and good, except for one thing I couldn't figure out and for that's reason can't use it for all users. I can add a prefix like "EXTERNAL" in subject-line using Exchange rule, and in-fact I did it already as part of testing.