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Forward every third email to a given person

I need something (script, rule) that would forward every third email that comes to my account to some other email address. But I need this to be able to run even when the Outlook/PC is closed/ turned off. Is it possible to do that?

It's third message to one given person. So every message counts as "third" - first go to person A, second to person B and third to person C, fourth to person A, fifth to person B etc etc...

Well if I could manage to create the script being server side I would imagine doing something like: do 3 rules:

  1. Received message = Send message to person A, delete it, turn rule 2 on and turn itself off
  2. Received message = Send message to person B, delete it, turn rule 3 on and turn itself off
  3. Received message = Send message to person C, delete it, turn rule 1 on and turn itself off

This should work, I just don't know if it is possible to make it server-side so Outlook doesn't have to be running.

Solution

  • This would only be possible with a client side rule, which will not run when Outlook is not running. So, no, you cannot do that.