Rules with Multiple Addresses in "From"

[Guest]

I am using Outlook 2002. Created a rule to apply a category to an incoming
email and used 9 email addresses in the "from" box. There is no other
criteria for the rule. It is not working on all of the addresses. Is there
a limit to the number of addresses that can exist in the rule? Would it be
better to combine all of the addresses into a distribution list?

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I am using Outlook 2002. Created a rule to apply a category to an incoming
email and used 9 email addresses in the "from" box. There is no other
criteria for the rule. It is not working on all of the addresses. Is
there
a limit to the number of addresses that can exist in the rule? Would it
be
better to combine all of the addresses into a distribution list?

What happens if you remove all the addresses but one of the ones that does
not work, does the rule work then?

 

[Guest]

I have not tried that yet, will do so tomorrow. I actually did try creating
a new rule using a distribution list, for which I received a message that I
could not use a distribution list, but could use the individual addresses in
the list. So I said ok, and the rule included all the addresses, which then
ran and properly categorized the emails that had been ignored previously.

Once I have tried it, I will re-post to this thread.

I think what I was really asking is whether there was a limit to the number
of addresses that could be used in the rule.

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I have not tried that yet, will do so tomorrow. I actually did try
creating
a new rule using a distribution list, for which I received a message that
I
could not use a distribution list, but could use the individual addresses
in
the list. So I said ok, and the rule included all the addresses, which
then
ran and properly categorized the emails that had been ignored previously.

Once I have tried it, I will re-post to this thread.

I think what I was really asking is whether there was a limit to the
number
of addresses that could be used in the rule.

Nope, no limit per se. I mean, there's a generic size limit to the number
of rules, but 9 addresses isn't going to be hitting that. My suggestion was
basically to make sure that the part of the rule that should work would work
all alone. If it doesn't work there, then there's something else going on,
likely some incongruity between what you think the address should be vs.
what Outlook thinks it is.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for replying. That is what I really needed to know.

Today got crazy at work and I was not able to look at it and tomorrow will
be worse. I will play with it some more and re-post then.

I ran into the number of rules limit at another job. But being able to put
multiple addresses is going to help a lot.

 

[Guest]

Once I was able to get back into this and analyze the rule addresses again,
it appears that I was missing two addresses. The rule is working correctly
now and contains 11 addresses.

Thanks for the suggestions, they helped a lot.