Did you finish off your rule with "and Stop processing more rules?" If not,
try doing so and see if the rule works then. When setting up a rule for a
number of contacts, you can select them all in the Contacts dialogue box
before clicking To:
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Noel
"fewdots" <fewdots@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9C0D9F1C-A580-4512-8D31-E1CBC3552F0E@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hi RC
>
> Thank you for your response but I'm afraid that exactly the same thing
> happens when I create the rule from the message. It creates the rule for
> fbloggs@xxxxxx but won't apply it until I change the 'from' to Fred
> Bloggs, which is the contact name. That also doesn't help when I need to
> create one rule for a group of people.... which has just given me an
> idea....
> maybe I can include a block of individuals within a group and then apply a
> rule to the group?
>
> Very strange that an automatic process appears to be using a different
> criterion to the one that created it, which is why I wondered if I was
> missing a system parameter somewhere!
>
> fewdots
>
> "R. C. White" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Hi, fewdots.
>>
>> One way to handle this is to highlight Fred's message, then click Actions
>> |
>> Create rule from message. The Rules screen should open with the From...
>> box
>> already checked and Fred's full address already entered in the
>> description
>> box. You may edit it if you like, but what is already entered should be
>> correct since it is taken from Fred's message. It probably will show
>> both
>> Fred Bloggs and his email address.
>>
>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> rc@xxxxxx
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
>>
>> "fewdots" <fewdots@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:C3E2F5A2-2D6F-49E7-B57C-B7747FE702F9@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > v2008 (12.0.1606)
>> >
>> > When I try to set up a message rules for several contacts I add them
>> > from
>> > the contacts book. However the contact 'Fred Bloggs' has an email
>> > address
>> > 'fbloggs@xxxxxx' and selecting him places the email address,
>> > rather
>> > than the contact name, into the rule. As the message is received from
>> > Fred
>> > Bloggs, the rule is not applied.
>> >
>> > I have hundreds of contacts from a variety of organisations and don't
>> > want
>> > to have to type these in manually. Am I doing something daft?
>>