I want to forward ALL messages coming into my Inbox, but when I try to set up
a New Rule to do that, I'm asked to se what conditions the forwarded messages
must meet. Even though it would seem extremely obvious to have his option, I
don't see a condition like "All messages" or "messages don't need to meet any
conditions."

I tried just leaving all of the conditions blank (unchecked), but then
whenever a new message arrives, an error message pops up saying "The message
you specified cannot be found." and the Rule is turned off.

It seems to me that forwarding ALL messages -- with no conditions -- should
be a very simple option to implement. What am I missing?

> I want to forward ALL messages coming into my Inbox, but when I try to
> set up a New Rule to do that, I'm asked to se what conditions the
> forwarded messages must meet. Even though it would seem extremely
> obvious to have his option, I don't see a condition like "All
> messages" or "messages don't need to meet any conditions."
>
> I tried just leaving all of the conditions blank (unchecked), but then
> whenever a new message arrives, an error message pops up saying "The
> message you specified cannot be found." and the Rule is turned off.
>
> It seems to me that forwarding ALL messages -- with no conditions --
> should be a very simple option to implement. What am I missing?

Well, rather than troubleshoot the problem directly, let me ask a question
first.

Do you actually want to get mail at this address and at a different address,
or do you just want it going to the other address period.

I ask because this rule will require outlook be running and it'll likely
be easier to set something up on the server, which leads to the question
of what type of mail account? Exchange? POP?

--
f.h.
Microsoft Outlook MV

No conditions is not checking anything on the conditions dialog - a warning
will come up when you hit next telling you that it will apply to all
messages.

Do you have other rules enabled?
What version of outlook? We are aware of a bug in Outlook 2007 post sp2
for reply with template - its possible that it affects forwards too.
Does your isp have a forwarding option? Log into the mailbox online to
check.


--
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"PH Graphics" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2649D305-A182-4CE0-9DFD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I want to forward ALL messages coming into my Inbox, but when I try to set
> up
> a New Rule to do that, I'm asked to se what conditions the forwarded
> messages
> must meet. Even though it would seem extremely obvious to have his
> option, I
> don't see a condition like "All messages" or "messages don't need to meet
> any
> conditions."
>
> I tried just leaving all of the conditions blank (unchecked), but then
> whenever a new message arrives, an error message pops up saying "The
> message
> you specified cannot be found." and the Rule is turned off.
>
> It seems to me that forwarding ALL messages -- with no conditions --
> should
> be a very simple option to implement. What am I missing?

Hi. Thanks to you and F.H. Muffman for your quick responses. In answer to
your questions:

I'm using Outlook 2007 (in Office Professioanl 2007) on my office computer
which is running Vista Home Premium.

One of my web sites is hosted by GoDaddy.com, and my 6 active email accounts
are POP3 accounts through GoDaddy in the general form of
"(E-Mail Removed)," and the messages from all 6 are collected
into a single Inbox in Outlook 2007.

5 of those 6 accounts get very little spam, but my main email account (the
one that ALL of my clients have) has been found by spammers, and I get
between 100 and 200 spam messages a day on that account. It's not a serious
problem any longer, as I manually add all spamers Outlook's blocked senders
list, so only 4 or 5 spams per day make it to my Inbox; the rest go to my
Spam folder.

Last week I got a Blackberry and was horrified to find that ALL messages
sent to my main email account were getting through to the Blackberry -- not
just the messages which passed Outlook's spam filter and arrived in my Inbox.
That has meant that I've been manually deleting hundreds of messages from my
Blackberry each day.

What I want, then, is to get JUST those messages which have made it through
Outlook's spam and blocked senders filters and arrived in my Outlook Inbox.
That way as I update my Outlook blocked senders list each day, that also
updates the filters for the Blackberry email.

What I did was create a new email account "(E-Mail Removed)" and
associated that account with my Blackberry. Now I want to set Outlook to
forward all messages which hit my Inbox to that Blackberry account. That way
my Blackberry will get just a few spam messages each day -- not hundreds.

I can't do this at the level of GoDaddy's server, because then the blocked
senders list I've been building up in Outlook for years will not longer be
filtering the message flow.

So that's what I'm trying to do -- and why. Is this the best way to
accomplish that goal?

Thanks,
Paul

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

> No conditions is not checking anything on the conditions dialog - a warning
> will come up when you hit next telling you that it will apply to all
> messages.
>
> Do you have other rules enabled?
> What version of outlook? We are aware of a bug in Outlook 2007 post sp2
> for reply with template - its possible that it affects forwards too.
> Does your isp have a forwarding option? Log into the mailbox online to
> check.
>
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
>
> Outlook Tips by email:
> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-(E-Mail Removed)
>
> EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
> mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-(E-Mail Removed)
>
> Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
> http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34
>
> "PH Graphics" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2649D305-A182-4CE0-9DFD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I want to forward ALL messages coming into my Inbox, but when I try to set
> > up
> > a New Rule to do that, I'm asked to se what conditions the forwarded
> > messages
> > must meet. Even though it would seem extremely obvious to have his
> > option, I
> > don't see a condition like "All messages" or "messages don't need to meet
> > any
> > conditions."
> >
> > I tried just leaving all of the conditions blank (unchecked), but then
> > whenever a new message arrives, an error message pops up saying "The
> > message
> > you specified cannot be found." and the Rule is turned off.
> >
> > It seems to me that forwarding ALL messages -- with no conditions --
> > should
> > be a very simple option to implement. What am I missing?
>
>

"PH Graphics" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsE552A67-19AA-4706-843A-(E-Mail Removed)...

> Last week I got a Blackberry and was horrified to find that ALL messages
> sent to my main email account were getting through to the Blackberry -- not
> just the messages which passed Outlook's spam filter and arrived in my
> Inbox.
> That has meant that I've been manually deleting hundreds of messages from my
> Blackberry each day.

Are you getting those messages directly from the mailbox or are they arriving
on the Blackberry by a sync with Outlook itself? Clearly if you are doing the
former (i.e., you have POP accounts defined on the Blackberry), then you need
a server-side junk filter and Outlook can't help with that. Speak with
GoDaddy's support to ask what they intend to do to filter out the junnk.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

OK. Thanks to everyone for the advice.
Paul


"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> "PH Graphics" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> newsE552A67-19AA-4706-843A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > Last week I got a Blackberry and was horrified to find that ALL messages
> > sent to my main email account were getting through to the Blackberry -- not
> > just the messages which passed Outlook's spam filter and arrived in my
> > Inbox.
> > That has meant that I've been manually deleting hundreds of messages from my
> > Blackberry each day.
>
> Are you getting those messages directly from the mailbox or are they arriving
> on the Blackberry by a sync with Outlook itself? Clearly if you are doing the
> former (i.e., you have POP accounts defined on the Blackberry), then you need
> a server-side junk filter and Outlook can't help with that. Speak with
> GoDaddy's support to ask what they intend to do to filter out the junnk.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
>

is there a fix for the but you mentioned? i need to do an out of office reply
but cant make it work because of this bug you mentioned:
We are aware of a bug in Outlook 2007 post sp2 for reply with template

Thanks!

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

> No conditions is not checking anything on the conditions dialog - a warning
> will come up when you hit next telling you that it will apply to all
> messages.
>
> Do you have other rules enabled?
> What version of outlook? We are aware of a bug in Outlook 2007 post sp2
> for reply with template - its possible that it affects forwards too.
> Does your isp have a forwarding option? Log into the mailbox online to
> check.
>
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
>
> Outlook Tips by email:
> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-(E-Mail Removed)
>
> EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
> mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-(E-Mail Removed)
>
> Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
> http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34
>
> "PH Graphics" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2649D305-A182-4CE0-9DFD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I want to forward ALL messages coming into my Inbox, but when I try to set
> > up
> > a New Rule to do that, I'm asked to se what conditions the forwarded
> > messages
> > must meet. Even though it would seem extremely obvious to have his
> > option, I
> > don't see a condition like "All messages" or "messages don't need to meet
> > any
> > conditions."
> >
> > I tried just leaving all of the conditions blank (unchecked), but then
> > whenever a new message arrives, an error message pops up saying "The
> > message
> > you specified cannot be found." and the Rule is turned off.
> >
> > It seems to me that forwarding ALL messages -- with no conditions --
> > should
> > be a very simple option to implement. What am I missing?
>
>