Rule for email messages

[John C. Barton]

I get a message"message rules cannot be created for IMAP and HTTP email
accounts" when I try to create message rules in Outlook Express. How do I
find out what kind of email accounts I have? How can I set up my email
accounts so that I can create email message rules?

 

[JimW]

-----Original Message-----
I get a message"message rules cannot be created for IMAP and HTTP email
accounts" when I try to create message rules in Outlook Express. How do I
find out what kind of email accounts I have? How can I set up my email
accounts so that I can create email message rules?



.Try this,In Outlook Express,Click Tools,Accounts,Click

the Mail Tab. See how many accounts are in there.Highlight
one and click Properties.On th servers tab see what it says
at the top.If it says POP3,then you can make rules for
that one.Click the General Tab,at the bottom you will see
a check box with "Include this account when recieving mail
or synchronizing".Check the box.If there are other
accounts listed under mail tab,highlight them one at the
time and click properties and on the general tab make sure
that box is un checked,you can down load your messages
from them manually.They should be listed on the down arrow
on "send and recieve"
JimW

 

[PA Bear]

CrytalBall© sez you're trying to create a Message Rule while reading a
Hotmail/MSN message via

Message>Create a rule from this message

As the error imples, albeit in a clumsy manner, OE Message Rules are only
applied to incoming POP3 mail (e.g., your Roadrunner account), not HTTP or
IMAP mail; hence, you can only create a Message Rule from a message received
by your POP3 account.
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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