The key here is that you are downloading messages and not retrieving such with Outlook's mail retrieval from a POP3 site. The rules may not "fire."
My bet is that you'll have to manually run the rules.
Bob
I am having a problem with Outlook 2002. I am downloading messages from Yahoo to my outlook and most of my spam messages are marked with [Bulk] in their subject heading. I setup my outlook rule so I can move these to my trash folder when they arrive. However, it seems that every time I start my outlook after rebooting, I need to run this rule manually to move these messages to trash. Is there a way to start rules automatically when I start Outlook? Please let me know.

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