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Outlook 2000 and Rules

Aug 22, 2005 10:27PM PDT

Is there a quirk to where outlook 2000 won't automatically run Rules in Public Folders?

I created a rule that works fine with the Inbox but when I use the same rules and apply them for Public folders I have to manually run the rules. Rules will not run when the email pops into the Public folder.


Rule

I wrote this rule using move/copy/forward and none worked right.

move new emails that have ''XXXX'' in subject line from Public folder ''Frank'' to another folder under ''Frank'' called ''Scott''.

When running this in public folders it won't run automatically, it has to be ran manually but I can take the same rule and appply it to the INBOX and move stuff from the INBOX to the DELETE box. I am using a roaming profile on windows 2000 with SP4.

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From memory, yes.
Aug 22, 2005 10:36PM PDT

If you think about it... it makes (Microsoft) sense.

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Suggestions
Aug 22, 2005 10:47PM PDT

Does anyone know what I might be able to do to get around this. I know some rules (move, copy) run on the client and user that created the rule has to be logged into outlook and then there are some rules (forward) that run on the exchange server and user does not have to be logged in. Of course there are always exceptions. I'm stuck.........

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Workaround = write software.
Aug 22, 2005 11:10PM PDT

We wrote our own rules into some simple Visual Basic applications. It's all of 80 lines of code to do various special things with Outlook, but it seems that many are users and run away when small programming tasks appear.

Bob

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Folder Assistant
Aug 24, 2005 10:53PM PDT

Folder Assistant seems to be what I wanted. From what i've read it was made for using with Public Folders and seems to be working for the rules I have set up.