Diane

Aye, there is the big snag. You have to download the whole message for the
message rules to be applied! Better do it manually before scanning the
messages,

John
"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
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You experience is correct on HTTP, not on POP3. POP3, provided the entire
message is downloaded, should work fine on download.

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"John Butler" wrote in message
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Jerry,

My 2007 experience is that message rules cannot be applied to HTTP
accounts and have to be applied manually to POP accounts.

John


"Jerry West" wrote in message
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It is a POP3 account.

how does the rule read?

I assume you mean this located in the Rule description text box?

"Apply this rule after the message arrives from assign it to the
z category"

Like I said, if I run the rule manually it works perfectly.

JW


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
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what type of email account? how does the rule read?

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"Jerry West" wrote in message
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I have Outlook 2007. I have setup a rule to categorize my mail when it
arrives in the Inbox. Inexplicably this fails. It fails in spite of the
fact that if I run the rule manually it works perfectly. I have the
rule set with the highest priority. Does anyone know why this fails?

JW