Rules are not running

[Torben Hoffmann]

Hi,

I have set up a number of rules that are supposed to assign categories to my
incomming mails so that I can sort my inbox on categories, but they are not
working; I have to use the "Run now" facility of the Rules Wizard to get
them going.

I suspect that there something wrong with the way my logic works.
The general form of my rules are:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
with <something> in the message header
assign it to the <some category> category
and stop processing more rules

I also have some rules where line two is "with me on the to line".
None of these seem to work - the only ones that work are those that mark
mails using the Message related forms.

What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance
/Torben



The rules that checks if the mail uses the Meeting related forms works just
fine.

 

[Moragor]

Hi Torben

I'm curious...have you tried it with the "stop processing more rules" option
removed?

 

[Torben Hoffmann]

Yes, but in order to avoid double assignment of categories to the incomming
mail I added exceptions to the rules based on "selected properties of
document" (there you can add a list of catogories, so that mails with these
categories does not fire again).

This also does not work.

I'm a bit in the dark here...
/Torben

 

[Swifty]

It's not something as simple as the individual rules not being enabled is
it? That fits all the facts in your description, and your rules are a
duplicate of the way my (working) rules are setup.

 

[Torben Hoffmann]

No, had it only been so simple!

All the rules in question are enabled.
/Torben

 

[Swifty]

All the rules in question are enabled.

It sounds as if your rules are not running, for some reason. What level of
Outlook are you using? I recently installed Outlook 2003 and it has nedw
actions for thr rules, including notifications. At least with this you
could experiment to see if your rules were running.

 

[Torben Hoffmann]

I'm using Outlook 2002, unfortunately.
/Torben