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I have an inbox full of messages and would like to flag (or otherwise filter) all messages that have a (or more) PDF attachment.
I tried creating a "Rule", but there seems to be no standard way to do this built-in.
Bart Friederichs
Posted 2015-12-21T18:01:49.190
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This will work in the search box for Outlook 2010 ext:pdf and this site has a ton of ways to play with this search feature Attachments by extension. Including ext:(docx OR pdf) ext:(doc NOT docx) and ext:(NOT docx) hasattachments:yes
I think what you need is to search this ext:(NOT pdf) hasattachments:yes
Cand3r
Posted 2015-12-21T18:01:49.190
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This seems to work in folders of the main account, but not on another (shared) account. Or at least dodgy. hasattachments seem to work as expected, ext confuses me a little: NOT pdf gives me all mails, pdf yields no results at all. – Bart Friederichs – 2015-12-21T19:17:21.623
Did you read the whole linked page? It's really short, the ext in ext:<extension> as they put it is the file extension that you are looking for, or NOT in those cases. You need ext: in order for it to search specifically for attachment extensions. – Cand3r – 2015-12-21T19:27:10.137
yes I read it, and the exact same search string works in the Inbox, but not on that shared folder. hasattachments works, but the ext just doesn't. – Bart Friederichs – 2015-12-21T19:29:58.173
Did that end up working for the shared folder? – Cand3r – 2015-12-21T20:18:27.520
No, but I will copy everything local (have to anyway) and then filter. The solution is the one used, so thanks for that. – Bart Friederichs – 2015-12-21T20:23:46.853
Sorry bout the shared folder. I wouldn't think it would be aby different but permissions are a fickle mistress. Good luck with the email cleanup – Cand3r – 2015-12-21T20:42:37.457
Your point is the PDF, right? You can make rules for 'has attachment'. – Aganju – 2015-12-21T18:03:44.213
@Aganju right. I saw "has attachment". In fact, I want to filter out all mails that do NOT have a PDF attachment; those are the ones that need attention. – Bart Friederichs – 2015-12-21T18:05:05.240
There is 'Run a Script' in the actions list; that might be a way. But I have no idea how such a script would look. – Aganju – 2015-12-21T18:06:23.650