maximum rules

[Guest]

Is there a way to increase the maximum number of rules in outlook when using
exchange?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

No. It's limited because all of the info in the rules have to fit within a
RPC call (which is limited to 32KB).

Aloha,

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[Guest]

Ben,

How many rules would it take to use 32KB if each rule is a simple "move to"
based on subjet line content?

Thank you,

Tony

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Hard to say - a simple "move to" rule will probably be 700 bytes or so, so I
guess you could get maybe 45 or so rules in there?

Rule size will be affected by how long the subject line criteria is (i.e.
matching on "Hi" will take a lot less space than matching on "Get rich by
helping me get money out of the Congo") and also folder name size.

Whenever possible try to combine multiple rules into a single rule to save
space.

Aloha,

-Ben-
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[Guest]

Ben,

Than this IS an issue for our company. 45 rules is nothing. Will the new
version of Outlook allow for more rules?

Thank you,

Tony

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

It's not an Outlook limitation per se, it's an RPC limitation. So the
answer to your question is almost certainly "no." I haven't tried to create
that many rules in Outlook 2007 though.

If you really need THAT many rules you might look into writing some of those
functions as VBA macros/scripts instead. Not subject to the same
limitations and probably more efficient (though somewhat harder to
create/edit/maintain).

Sue Mosher has a couple of excellent Outlook Programming books that you
could probably find at your local Borders or Barnes & Noble if you were
interested.

Aloha,

-Ben-
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[Guest]

Ben,

I've turned off everything, rewritten everything and all I can trace this
issue back to is MSFT's Outlook Security and Junk Mail Updates.

Do you think that MSFT will have a fix for this soon. It seems that alot of
people all over the boards are taking about all their e-mail going into their
JUNK MAIL folders and their rules nor playing by the rules <gg>

Best regards - going nuts with my email now.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

No, I don't think Microsoft is likely to change the maximum number of rules
soon -- as below it's a much more complicated issue than it would seem on
the surface. It's not an arbitrary limitation.

As for issues with the junk e-mail, yes I've seen a number of people
complaining about the junk filters going somewhat haywire. For those people
I'm afraid the best I can recommend is to turn off the junk filters and get
SpamBayes or something similar.

Aloha,

-Ben-
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Roland Schorr & Tower
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