Outlooks Rules for Development Team

Here are a list of Outlook rules that can be set up to help organize the inbox of the development team.

Prometheus Alerts – Sender is alertmanager@fullcount.net

Applications Alerts - Sender is alerts@fullcount.net

Database Alerts – Sender is oracle@fullcount.net

Redmine Alerts – Sender is redmine@fullcount.net

Your Redmine Alerts (the Preston rule!) - Sender is redmine@fullcount.net, check for your name in the body

Remote Backup Jobs Report - Sender is root@fullcount.net and Remote Backup Jobs Report is in the subject

PCC Status Notifications - Sender is noreply@status.io

How to create an email rule

An email rule is a filter that applies to emails that come in your inbox. It will take them and move them into different folders, to help your inbox stay organized and avoid clutter

To create email rules in the new Outlook app, press the gear in the top left

Then, navigate to Mail > Rules

Here, press Create a new rule:

That will bring you to this form:

Here, name the rule something useful so you can find it again later. Then, configure your conditions. For example:

Well, you can do many things with the Add an Action field. But we usually use it to move the email to a different folder

On your first creation of these rules, you will probably want to check Run rule now - this will run the rule on all the emails currently in your inbox

NOTE: One thing to watch for is the "Stop processing more rules" checkbox. This should be checked, at least if you're just creating the rules we've got here. However, what it means is that order matters. Well, in our case, specifically for the Redmine rules - your personal Redmine rule needs to run before the other Redmine rule, otherwise it won't work!