"Blake" said in news:
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When my mail comes in it should be forwarded to folders by
message rules. Lately, the rules will not automatically
move my messages. If I manually run my rules, they will
move the messages as specifed in the rule so I know the
rules are correct.
Don't know if it got fixed in OL2003 (probably not) but in OL2002 and
earlier it had a defect that the rules on the very first scheduled mail poll
do not execute. When you configure Outlook to poll every N minutes, the
zeroeth minute is included. That is, when scheduling is enabled, Outlook
will perform a mail poll as soon as it starts. However, although its engine
seems capable of polling for messages during the early part of Outlook's
startup, it is not yet ready to exercise the rules, so you get the messages
on the very first poll but the rules don't run. If you manually run the
rules then they work. Also, on the next scheduled mail poll, the rules will
get executed but unfortunately they get exercised only against new e-mail
coming in.
Unless you want to disable the scheduling of mail polls so Outlook doesn't
forget to run the rules on the very first mail poll as it loads up (which
also means you'll have to remember to perform the mail polls manually
thereafter), you could add a button to a toolbar for "Run Now".
Unfortunately Microsoft wasn't smart enough in pre-OL2003 to include an
option to enable all the currently defined rules with a Enable All button.
You cannot use Ctrl-A to select them all to then check one to get them all
checked, nor can you click on the first and Shift+click on the last one to
select them all. If you have dozens of rules, it's a pain to select them
all.
