Re: Rules and Alerts in MS Office 2007

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Good Morning F.H.
I know have all my rules working again. I realized that I needed to create
separate rules for distribution lists and have them connected to the folder
that I wanted.

Thank you and Brian for all your help with this issue.
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Thanks for your help
Barbara


"F.H. Muffman" wrote:

I am now having trouble with some rules that are sent to
distribution lists where I am a part of that list. Do I want or need
all of the following to get the rules to work

"Where my name is in the To or Cc box" and from "from people or
distribution list" and "sent to people or distribution list" and "move
it to the _____ folder"

"from "from people or distribution list"" is *very* dangerous because
it usually doesn't do what you think it is going to do.

It will look at that DL and use the members of that DL to determine
if the rule should be applied to the message.

So, if Joe, Mary and Tom are on that DL, and they send you a message,
that rule would try to run against it.

If all you want is to have the rule affect messages sent to a distribution
list, that's all that should be on the rule.

If you want the rule to affect messages that are sent to a distribution
list AND are from people on that distribution list, then you need to have
sent to and from that distribution list.

If you want the rule to affect messages that are sent to a distribution list
AND are from people on that distribution list AND you are on the mail as well
on either the To or CC line, then all three need to be there.


I have removed the "Where my name is in the To or Cc box" or do I need
to leave that in? I have email rules set up with someone who is from
the "from people" and I am in the "distribution list" but the email
not moving to the specific folder.

Do I need to add to all my rules "on this machine only"?

Uh, only if you want it to only run on this machine or you add actions that
require Outlook to be running.

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f.h.
Microsoft Outlook MVP



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