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by dlima

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Outlook 2002/xp rules wizard
I have been able to create a verity of different rules for my incoming mail however; I seem to have a problem with my Tech Republic Tech-mail subscriptions.

Typically I make the rules base on the senders address. This method didn?t work with Tech Republic subscriptions so I tried setting rules based on words in the body i.e. (Windows 95/98 Newsletter or Windows NT Newsletter). This worked only on the email I had opened. The rule did not get applied on incomingmail after that. Below is an example of how my rules are setup.

Apply this rule after message arrives with Windows 95/98 Newsletter in the body
Move it to the Windows 95/98 folder
*I then check the options
?Run this rule now on messages already in ?Inbox?
?Turn on this rule
*What am I doing wrong, see any problems?

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by tar12

I had the same problem for a while...here's what I did to correct it:

Rule was to move anything that had "TechRepublic" or "Tech Republic" in subject or body to the "Tech Tips" folder.

Make sure that you capitalize tech and republic - for somereason this works better. I also found that if I did it with "subject" or "body" text rather than "sent from" it worked all the time.
Good luck!

by dlima

Yes Answer 1: would work. However, my goal in setting up rules is not to simply move all TechRepublic emails into a folder called tech tips. I want to seperate the tech tips into folders labled by topics i.e. (Win NT, Win 98/95, MS Office, Wireless, Certification Corner and so on)

Well how do I do that. Belive me I have used the rules wizard going all the way back to Outlook 97/98. I have never had problem like the one I am now facing setting up rules for my Tech Republic tech tips.

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