Problem Setting Up Email Rule

[Guest]

I have four email accounts set up in Outlook 2003, one for each member of my
family. I have created a folder for each family member within the Inbox and I
want Outlook to automatically put the email for each family member in to the
appropriate folder.

I've tried creating a rule to do this but haven't been successful. There is
an option to create a rule "where my name is in the To or cc box" but I can't
find a "through the specified account" option or anything similar.

Can anyone help?

 

[Vanguard]

I have four email accounts set up in Outlook 2003, one for each member of
my
family. I have created a folder for each family member within the Inbox
and I
want Outlook to automatically put the email for each family member in to
the
appropriate folder.

I've tried creating a rule to do this but haven't been successful. There
is
an option to create a rule "where my name is in the To or cc box" but I
can't
find a "through the specified account" option or anything similar.

Can anyone help?

The "through the specified account" clause requires that you actually have
MORE than a single account defined. Do you? If you want to move items
based on which account through which the mail was received, you will need to
have 2, or more, POP3 or IMAP accounts defined.

Rules are not usable against HTTPmail (Hotmail) accounts. If Hotmail is
what you use for your accounts, and assuming that you have paid Hotmail
accounts (or old accounts existing before 29-Nov-2004 that got grandfathered
in) to give you HTTPmail access to Hotmail using Outlook [Express], you
can't use any client-side rules against those HTTPmail accounts. You could
define server-side rules using the webmail interface to your Hotmail
account; however, the server-side rules available within the Hotmail account
are minimal.

If you have IMAP accounts, each one uses a separate message store which
means you need to define rules within each one. That means you will have
one set of rules for all your POP3 accounts, another set of rules for your
first IMAP account, another set of rules for your second IMAP account, and
so on, and you can't have any rules apply against your HTTPmail accounts.

You didn't mention WHAT type of e-mail accounts you have defined in Outlook.