Message Rules stopped working

[aew]

About two weeks ago, all my message rules stopped working. My rules are to
sort incoming emails into different folders and to delete emails with certain
words. I have tried running each of the rules seperately, but that does not
work either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Did you look at Tools, Message Rules, Mail, and make sure each rule
has the blue checkmark in front of it?
Make a new test rule and see if it works.
Some third party security software programs interfere with rule saving.

 

[aew]

Thank you for your response. Yes, all the rules have a blue check. Is there
a limit how many words you can use in the rules to delete the emails?
Perhaps that's the problem?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I'm not aware of a limit, but as I suggested, create a new (simple) rule
and test it. If the new one works then you know the old ones are corrupted.