None and normal importance via Rules Wizard

[Steve]

Hi,



I have a few rules set up that assign an Importance level depending on the
source. The "High" and "Low" settings are assigned correctly but for those
emails that should be getting a "Normal" Importance they sometimes receive
the "Normal" setting and sometimes receive none. This is a problem since I
group my emails by Importance so instead of groups of High, Normal, and Low
I get High, Normal, Low, and none.



Why would Outlook not assign an importance when it is explicitly set up to
do so in the Rules Wizard?



I am running XP Pro SP2 with Office XP Pro SP3.



Thanks for your help (and happy holidays), Steve

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem ... if anyone is willing to give some guidance to a
decent Excel VBA progreammer who's never tackled Outlook, I'd like to take a
crack at:

1) a sript to be run on any folder that sets the Importance to "Normal" for
all items that have no Importance status (or alternatively, all items that
are neither "High" nor "Low" Importance); and/or

2) a script to be run from the rules wizard to do the same to incoming
messages.

Anyone willing to point me in the right direction?

Tx & rgds

 

[Guest]

Hi Steve,

Please see the following thread relating to this problem. You will probably
want to modify the script I attach for use in the rules wizard:

Rgds

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And here's the solution to the second problem (again, converting items that
either have no Importance set, or have Low Importance to Normal):

Sub SetImportanceRule(Item As Outlook.MailItem)
If Item.Importance <> olImportanceHigh Then
Item.Importance = olImportanceNormal
Item.Save
End If
End Sub

This will then show up as an available script in the rules wizard, which
should be applied to all incoming mail.