Re: Can't delete mail rule

From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 01/28/05


Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:27:23 -0800

If you are running NAV 2004 and Norton Internet Security, it includes
Norton AntiSpam and this package is the likely cause of this problem.
Dump it.

A workaround that works for some:

Create a *Dummy Rule* to be the designated Grayed-out rule.

     Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - (IE/OE)
        ~IB-CA~

"Randomiser" <Randomiser@LOSETHISconkey.plus.com> wrote in message
news:O15qewTBFHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Had problems with a particular mail rule in OE6. It had been last
> rule but I put in a couple of new ones which appeared beneath it.
> When I highlighted this rule I could not deselect it, nor Modify or
> Delete it; the buttons remained greyed out. The text of the rule
> similarly was 'browned-out' and could not be edited. It would not
> move up or down and the rules below it would not move up past it. In
> exasperation I deleted it from the Rules\Mail branch in the Registry
> and also the mention of it in the Rules\Mail\Order key. This deleted
> the rule sure enough, but now the rule which followed it has the
> same symptoms!
>
> Any ideas anyone? TIA
>
> Randomiser
>