Applying message rules
Magsmom
up a folder which at the present time only has one "from" name going into it.
When I used the "apply now" to the inbox to pull over the messages that had
already been downloaded from that sender, it worked ok. But-- then I set up
a folder for e mails coming from several senders and I can't get the "apply
now" function to work on the messages already in the inbox. It acts like it
is applying the rule, but when I look at the inbox, all those messages are
still there and nothing is in the new folder.
What am I doing wrong?
Ildhund
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Probably nothing. Mike Santovec has described a bug as follows:
<quote>
Are you manually applying the rule? If so you have run into a bug in
WLM.
When Manually applying a mail Message Rule criteria Where From Contains
'X'.
A From header can be of two forms:
1) From: Name <e-mail address>
2) From: e-mail address
When Manually applied, the rule does NOT check the e-mail address in
form #1 within the < >.
It will match the e-mail address in form #2. And it will match if
checking for Name.
The rule works perfectly when automatically applied to incoming POP3
message. It will match on the e-mail address in the <>.
The bug just appears to be with the From header. Testing on the To and
Cc headers when Manually applying rules works fine.
</quote>
To get your rules to work when you Apply now, you might have to check the
headers of the messages you want to divert. If the From: line is in the
format "Name" <address>, set up the rule to look for Name. If it is just
From: address, set it up to look for address.
--
Noel
R. C. White
One easily-overlooked "feature" of Apply Now is that it defaults to moving
messages from "Storage Folders", not from "Inbox". In other words, it
offers to re-sort messages that have already been sorted into folders. I
always have to Browse to each of my 3 Inboxes and Apply my NEW rule 3 times.
After this initial application, my new Rule properly sorts future incoming
messages.
Seems like a bug to me, but the WLM Team apparently thinks that this makes
more sense than having new Rules default to apply initially to the
Inbox(es).
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
r...@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
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