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Creating Email Rules in Outlook for 811spotter
Updated over 2 years ago

Set up routing rules in web Outlook to automatically forward ticket confirmation and member response emails from your local notification center to [email protected].

Note: you will need to set up routing rules for each notification center you with.

Please use the emails below for routing.

  • USA North (Northern California and Nevada)


Follow the steps below to create Outlook email rules for 811spotter.

  • After logging into Outlook, go to the menu, click on Rules and select Create Rule.

  • Ignore the initial wizard that appears and click Advanced Options.

  • For step 1 of Advanced Options in the Rules Wizard window,

    • Change the “from” field to [email protected] and

    • Change the “received in a specific date span” field to 60 days ago. You may need to scroll down to find the “received in a specific date span" field.

Changes are made by selecting the rule with a check mark and changing the highlighted value below.

For example, here's how to change the "from" field:

You should see a result similar to the following:

Scroll down to change “received in a specific date span” field.

Note: please only go back only 60 days from today.

You should see a result similar to the following:

  • Click Next to continue to the next step.

You should see a result similar to the following:

  • Click Next twice, then Finish to name the rule and run it for emails already in your inbox.

  • Click Finish. You should see some activity in your Outbox.

If you’d like to check if the emails made it to 811spotter, please feel free to email [email protected].

Troubleshooting

Having trouble getting the email rule to work? The most common reason: if you moved the 811 emails out of your inbox to another location. If this is the case, then:

  • Run the rule manually by clicking Manage Rules & Alerts.

  • Select Run Rules Now, then select the new rule.

  • Click Browse and select the top level, which is your entire mailbox.

Note: if you moved the emails to an offline folder or another location, select that location.

  • Click Run Rules Now and note the Run in Folder location.

  • You should see the following dialog and emails in your Outbox.

  • Click Close.

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