Re: Question on using rules in Outlook XP

Jeff,

Hard to know without knowing how you constructed each rule.

For example, some lists to which I belong have the listname in the subject 
line.  These sort accurately all the time if you state "where subject line 
contains".

I also have successfully sorted rules from a list if the list name is 
somewhere in the message.  For example, I can sort all JFWlite messsages by 
searching for jfw-request in the message body.  To me, this works better than 
sorting where the to or CC fields contain people, as some people send messages 
using the BCC field.

Thirdly, another thing that can influence rule performance is the order at 
which they are set to trigger.  Again, I can't tell you without knowing which 
rules you constructed for what situation, as it is possible that a message 
could meet conditions of more than one rule and thus might not be sorted in 
the way you might expect.

HTH,
Steve 



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