Message rule for NG's

[Bruce]

I wanted to limit the amount of posts that are saved, so I created a rule
for news as follows:

Box 1: Where the message was sent more than days ago
Box 2: Delete it
Box 3: Chose 5 days
Named the rule and clicked OK.
Clicked Apply Now>Browse>Chose "msnews.microsoft.com.">OK>Apply Now>OK.

What happens is, I have 5 MS NG's I keep subscribed to. The rule keeps
changing to only apply to the first one on the list. I tried to create a
rule for each NG separately, but they too would change to the first NG on
the list. When I made the original rule, the box that said Apply To All
Subfolders was checked, but grayed out.

Appreciate any help on this. Or if there is another way to limit the amount
of posts saved, that will do too. I have Get 50 Headers At A Time checked,
if this means anything.

Thanks.

 

[PA Bear]

"Apply Now" is a one-time use option you can use to clean up your newsgroups
(NG). See http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm#cleannews.
Always follow such a clean up with compacting all folders:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm#compact.

If the rule also enabled (checked in the list), it will be automatically
applied to all NGs each time OE downloads new headers/messages. If it's
enabled and the rule doesn't end with "and Stop processing more rules", any
other rules below it on the list will then be applied and "over-rule" it.
(It may interest you to know that this rule will also delete any posts which
are somehow misdated five days or more in /advance/ of today's date.)

See OE MVP Tom Koch's fine pages on using Rules:

Message Rules Tips
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm

Why doesn't my rule work?
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules

If you limit the download to 50 messages at a time, you'll only get the 50
newest (more recently posted) messages each time you poll the newsserver and
in a busy NG like this one where there can be 500+ posts a day, you'll never
see all of them. Try leaving that option unchecked (Tools>Options>Read>Get
__ messages...).
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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[Bruce]

I read through the links you supplied and have a better understanding about
this rule. But I read that mail rules should have "Stop processing more
rules" checked or the rule wouldn't work. When I select an action, such as
Delete From Server, all the other boxes are grayed out including Stop
processing more rules.

 

[PA Bear]

Thread moved to OE6 NG.[/QUOTE]