Outlook messages

[Gunther Hauer]

With the amount of spam we are getting these days, I've
created some rules to assign e-mails to categories based
on our address books. Then those that are not assigned to
either the personal or business category, I have rules to
move them to either the junk e-mail folder or if the have
special characters in the subject, to the deleted folder.
However, these e-mails from others not in either of my
address books get assigned to the right category but they
don't always get moved. I've double and triple checked
these, I've made sure they are in the right order but
still they do not work. If I run the rules manually, they
work. Outlook 2003. Any advice?

Thanks

 

[BEshleman]

I too have a similar situation. I've defined a rule to
assign messages to categories called Personal, Marked and
Valid if the sender in in my contacts. Another rule to
assign messages to categories Business, Marked and Valid
if they are in the companies address book. Then a rule to
assign messages to cats Garbage and Marked if they
have "certain" words in the subject and are not in
Marked. Another to assign the rest, not in the Marked
category to Marked and Junk. Two more rules, one to move
the Garbage ones to the Deleted folder and another to move
the Junk ones to Junk E-Mail. They don't always move the
e-mails plus some are assigned to the wrong categories.
I've checked the rules again and again. I think I'm
missing something but I'm at a loss as to what it is.
Does anybody have any ideas?

Thank you very much in advance.