Rules should work in Outlook! I switched to Thunderbird because of

[Guest]

I was a corporate user of Office XP and I tried out Outlook 2003 for a while.
My inbox always filled up with spam because the rules don't fire half the
time! I couldn't get any service pack to apply to see if that would fix the
problem, so I just switched to Thunderbird. Rules to me are the absolute
most important feature of an email client, and since they don't work in
Outlook 2k3, that just makes it a useless and broken product. There is no
excuse for that feature to not be working even on a first release of a
product.

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[Brian Tillman]

I was a corporate user of Office XP and I tried out Outlook 2003 for
a while. My inbox always filled up with spam because the rules don't
fire half the time! I couldn't get any service pack to apply to see
if that would fix the problem, so I just switched to Thunderbird.
Rules to me are the absolute most important feature of an email
client, and since they don't work in Outlook 2k3, that just makes it
a useless and broken product. There is no excuse for that feature to
not be working even on a first release of a product.

Rules work fine for me. You must have done something wrong or have
something peculiar in your setup.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

What sort of errors did you get on the install of the Service Pack?