I’m an outlook person. A heavy outlook person. ANd there’s something that’s bothering me. The [External Tag in front of every message I get from an external email address (which is almost all my email)
Don’t get me wrong. I understand it. There is so much phishing and spoofing going on that is a nice visual reminder that you should be careful. But how this goes, if every email has this tag…You do not pay enough attention anyways and it is just screen clutter.
So I started looking for a solution. The company wide solution would be, shut this thing down, invest in security awareness training and do red/blue teaming to really train people in behavior. But that is a long term plan. I found this little workaround instead 🙂
- Right click on the “From” header at top of emails. Then “Field Chooser”
- Then “New”, change the “Type” field to “Formula”, give the new field a name (e.g. FromNoTag). Enter, [From] ,within the Formula field.
- Click OK. After clicking OK, left-click and maintain the “FromNoTag” line and drag it as much as your column heading space between “From” and “Subject” and launch.
- Once you see it as a brand new column, then left-click on the unique “From” column heading and drag it down into your mailbox till you see a big black X seem, then launch your left-click and it’ll go away.
- Now, click on and drag the unique From discipline off the e-mail record. The EXTERNAL Label is tied to that discipline, and by eradicating the ‘actual’ From discipline it would take away the label.
Only use if you happen to actually promise to watch out opening emails!
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