MS Outlook: rule for Invites received as delegate

Well, that's the problem -- I can't figure out what distinctions I can use -- we would get invitations from any number of people regarding meetings on any number of subjects. The only consistent difference (that I can see) between my own invitations and the ones I receive for him (from any number of people) are that the delegate invitations include a notation in a shaded section towards the top of the email which reads "please reply on behalf of [LastName, FirstName]."

Thinking that the shaded section might be considered the 'message header', I set up a rule to look for the phrase there. When that didn't work, I set up a rule to look for that phrase in the "subject or body", and THAT didn't work. If that shaded section isn't either the header or the body, I don't know what it might be, but I guess it doesn't matter, since the subject line, header and body appear to be the only places a rule will search for a phrase.

I don't see an easy answer to this.

As you say, the problem is one of consistency, or in this case the lack of it. Invitations are being received for both email addresses, (yours and your boss's), with inconsistent wording in both the subject and the body.

Can you at least set up a rule to separate your emails from your boss's into different folders? (You may already be doing this of course).

Other than that, I have no other suggestions at the moment.

Good luck on your search.

Mark

<<Can you at least set up a rule to separate your emails from your boss's into different folders?>>

It doesn't seem so -- as his delegate, my copies of his invitations come addressed directly to me, hence the problem; I can't identify any criteria to use for such a rule. The only thing that distinguishes his invitations are the "received on behalf of..." text that for some reason rule feature doesn't seem to be able to use as criteria. Thanks for trying.