My 'Rules' don't keep working. How do I make them stick?

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I have set a number of rules for 'move' emails from particular people into
particular folders. Like Church Group, Professional Organization, Boy
Scouts, etc.

Whenever I create these rules and I select Run this Rule now, it works and
the email(s) all move to their appropriate folder(s). And this works for a
few weeks.

Then all of a sudden I notice that there are emails from these people (yes,
from their exact same email address!) in my InBox and not moved to their
appropriate folder. So I set up the Rule again and I see that Outlook has
re-named it "Name (1)" which indicates that Outlook knows there is already an
original rule with this name.

When I check, sure enough there are now two of them.

ALL of these rules are 'checked' to be 'turned-on.'

Anybody else seen this problem? Got a solution/suggestion?
 
I have seen this problem. It only took two weeks for it to appear. I
look forward to getting some kind of answer from someone.
 
Same here. We have a 'Help Desk' mailbox that 'had' rules to forward
messages as they were received to a list of techs. The rule has been in
place for months, until today we noticed that messages were no longer being
forwarded. When I checked the 'Help Desk' mailbox rules, they listed on the
page with "(client-only)" after the rule name (I'm positive these were
server-based rules), and when I clicked to run the rules now, the rules that
listed on the first page did not list to run now.

Ended up deleting and re-creating the rules, which are again working, and do
not show as (client-only). This must be some form of corruption in the
Information Store...Microsoft?
 
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