How to disable the "Rules in Error" pop-up in Outlook 2003

[Guilbert STABILO]

Hi all,

I used to set dozens of rules for filtering my emails, delete or
dispatch them to specific directories and it used to working fine for
years till last week.
Now, for a reason I ignore (and I have no time to investigate !), I
get 10 to 20 "Rules in Error" pop-up per days.
The strange thing is the rules seem to work fine anyway because the
filtered email are destroyed as requested in the rule.
The bad thing is I have to click on the "Close" button if I want the
pop-up to disappear. If I have 20 stacked pop-ups and even more (one
hundred if I get back from holidays), it really becomes boring.

* Consequently, does anyone know a way to disable this "Rules in
Error" pop-up display ?

Even if an underlying problem occurs, I don't care.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Vince Averello]

Don't think you can. You have to find the rule in question and fix or delete
it. I thought the dialog mentioned the rule in error. I haven't seen it in a
while.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, that is not possible.

If you go to Tools-> Rules & Alerts... the rules which are in error are
probably marked with "(error)" before or after it (I'm not sure if Outlook
2003 already did this though). You can easily disable these rules and
continue working until you have time to take a closer look at them later.

The issue is probably due to a folder that got deleted or moved.

 

[Guilbert STABILO]

No, that is not possible.

If you go to Tools-> Rules & Alerts... the rules which are in error are
probably marked with "(error)" before or after it (I'm not sure if Outlook
2003 already did this though). You can easily disable these rules and
continue working until you have time to take a closer look at them later.

The issue is probably due to a folder that got deleted or moved.

So my problem has no solution.
My rule is a server rule which simply deletes the incoming mails which
match my filter, nothing else.
It seems that there is a right problem on the central exchange server
but the mail server administrators are unable (or do not know how) to
fix it (I work in a very big company).
If I disable the rule, I get hundred of mails in my inbox and of
course I do not want them.
I would have prefered Thunderbird but I have to use the mail client
chosen by my company :-(

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The solution would be either to fix or recreate the rule that is causing the
error. I highly doubt that the issue is at Exchange level.

The rules with deleting emails are probably not the issue here. It's much
more likely that it is a rule that is moving the message to a different
folder that is causing you this pop-up.