On 1/15/02 12:23 PM, "Jim Warthman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello! > I have built a variety of Mailing List Rules using the Mailing List Manager, > and they seem to work very well for newly arrived e-mail. > > I would like to run these rules against "old" messages that were in my Inbox > prior to creating the rules. > > When I select a set of messages, and issue the "Message/Apply Rules" > command, nothing happens. Well, at least my Mailing List Rules don't seem to > run. > > Is it possible to apply these rules to "old" messages? (I hope I'm not > missing anything obvious... ;-) > I believe that MLM rules can't be coaxed to run on messages that have already been admitted to the Inbox, as a way of making sure that they don't run a second time and go round and round. What you could do is make a regular rule that has the same action with the criterion being that "Any To Recipient' contain the mailing list address, and an equivalent criterion for each mailing list address within a "Match if ANY criterion applies'. Then run All Rules (or just this rule, if you keep it to one - faster) on all selected messages in your inbox. This would be easier than the Alternative of using a custom view to find these messages, drag them all out, delete the ones in Entourage, then drag the .eml files back in again and delete the eml files. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
