I'm not sure I get your point Russ. Sorting on an email address is a very
simple thing (or should be). Actually, I made a mistake and emails received
in the inbox are in fact sorted by email address, so that part is already
done. The problem I encounter is in the Sent Items when I want to find all
the messages sent "To" a particular email address. In this case Outlook
does not file them by email address but by a number of inconsistent alias'.
If Outlook simply put the email address the message was sent to in the "To",
it would be simple to find all the emails sent to one email address. It
doesn't and I can't find a way to make it do that.

A Search or Advanced Find is an extremely slow way to locate all the emails
sent to one person (or rather one email address).

Huck

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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You are simply proving my point. Sorting by the From field makes no sense.
To do what you want, use a search, find or advanced find.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Huck" wrote in message
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The point is that the message comes from an email address, for example
. However, Outlook will show it in many different
ways. It may show it as an "alias" such as "Russ Valentine". It may also
display it as "'Russ Valentine" (note the extra single quote). I have
the same person with the same email address that is displayed in the
"From" field in 3-5 different ways.. Consequently, if you want to find
all emails that came from it is very difficult and
sometimes close to impossible if you don't know all the ways outlook has
filed emails from that email address.

It's a mess. I want a simple way to find all the emails that were sent
from one email address. I don't have it now.

Huck
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Since the From field is controlled by the sender and could be anything
the sender chooses, why would you ever want to sort on it? What's the
point here?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Huck" wrote in message
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How can a sort messages by the email address. If I click on the "From"
field, it has messages listed by various alias (i.e. "File as"). The
same email address can have several different alias', so I often can't
find all the emails from one email address.



It was suggested that I could "Right click on the column header, select
Field Chooser and add the Account field.", however, this did not work.
(The "Account" field in "All contact fields" does not show anything.
There is an "Email Account" field, but that is who the email is sent
"To". I want who it is sent "From" and the "From" field is listed by
alias, not email address.



Any suggestions?



Thanks for any help



Huck Rorick