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by julia is here

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I often drag my email into tasks, and then the email becomes a task. I tried to set up a rule to do this with certain incoming mail, but the rule will put the email in the task folder, but won't change it to a task. It stays an email. Is there a way to automate this?

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by benyo

I've tried everything to get this to work and hit a brick wall every time. Organize will only move emails, not reassign it's behaviour (ie email to task or even email to calendar entry). Because creating a task out of an email involves clicking on the save and close button when moved manually there is no way of automating this. Maybe there is some way of creating a script to do this for you but from the scripters I've spoken to it sounds very unlikely. I know this is not the answer you wanted, but as the song goes 'That's Just The Way It Is'!

Then again, maybe future versions of Outlook will support this. Maybe suggest it on the MS site.

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