On 3/3/05 1:06 PM, "Nigel Stanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm confused :(
>
> While I have an Exchange account here, I prefer to keep all my mail locally
> at present. After upgrading to 2004, I found that it would apply the mailing
> list rules to the Exchange inbox, but not the POP rules (as you would
> expect), which meant that all the mailing list messages would get filed in
> the appropriate local folder, but not anything else.
>
> Yesterday I manually duplicated all my POP rules over to Exchange rules (I
> was hoping you could drag and drop them, but no such luck).
Not being able to copy rules is a royal pain. Let's hope this option will be
added in the future.
>The very last
> rule I defined was one that grabs anything that's left and dumps it in my
> local inbox (match all messages, move to Inbox). Anything that doesn't get
> caught by an earlier Exchange rule or mailing list rule gets caught by this.
Mail that is not junk will automatically go to the Inbox unless another rule
runs on the message. Adding a rule to put mail in the Inbox is unnecessary.
>
> At least, that was the theory. I came in this morning to find about 30
> mailing list messages in my inbox. They've clearly been dropped there by the
> last Exchange rule; the mailing list rules haven't changed at all and worked
> fine previously. This makes no sense, however, as the Mailing List Manager
> executes before the Exchange rules, right? What's going on??? Huh?!?!
As you have noticed each type of mail account has to have it's own rules.
The order of execution on Rules:
Mailing List Manager
Junk Mail Filter
Rules
This applies to each type of account.
>
> I've tried changing the final Exchange rule to match if "is not from a
> mailing list" to see what happens.
>
I only use "not from a mailing list" for personal mail from friends. See
this example:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule002.html>
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