Sorry if:
a. this has been asked before, I couldn't find any posts regarding
rules.
b. my subject is confusing.
I'm using WLM 2008 (BUILD 12.0.1606)? IE7, XP SP3
was using OE6.
I recently imported my OE6 accounts complete with messages address
book/contacts and rules.
The folder structure came over OK. Unfortunately many messages do not
land up in the folders they did on OE. It appears that the 'from'
content no longer matches that it did in OE. If I alter the rules such
that the 'from' contains the contacts name rather than their address it
seems to operate OK.
Is this a feature? Or have I missed a switch somewhere that enables the
address translation?
Geoff

--
--

Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could
remember the darn question

You haven't missed any switch.
Microsoft thinks that everyone wants to use a name rather than an address.
I added the name so my rules say if address or name, then....
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Ronald Sommer

"GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uSEWvICOJHA.3480@xxxxxx

> Sorry if:
> a. this has been asked before, I couldn't find any posts regarding rules.
> b. my subject is confusing.
> I'm using WLM 2008 (BUILD 12.0.1606)? IE7, XP SP3
> was using OE6.
> I recently imported my OE6 accounts complete with messages address
> book/contacts and rules.
> The folder structure came over OK. Unfortunately many messages do not land
> up in the folders they did on OE. It appears that the 'from' content no
> longer matches that it did in OE. If I alter the rules such that the
> 'from' contains the contacts name rather than their address it seems to
> operate OK.
> Is this a feature? Or have I missed a switch somewhere that enables the
> address translation?
> Geoff
>
> --
> --
>
> Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could remember
> the darn question
>

Oh, wonderful,
So what you're saying is I need to go edit all 700 odd rules to
accommodate this whim?
Micro$oft strikes again!
At least the message store is robust, isn't it?


"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uwOn0QCOJHA.4508@xxxxxx

> You haven't missed any switch.
> Microsoft thinks that everyone wants to use a name rather than an
> address.
> I added the name so my rules say if address or name, then....
> --
> Ronald Sommer
>
> "GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uSEWvICOJHA.3480@xxxxxx

>> Sorry if:
>> a. this has been asked before, I couldn't find any posts regarding
>> rules.
>> b. my subject is confusing.
>> I'm using WLM 2008 (BUILD 12.0.1606)? IE7, XP SP3
>> was using OE6.
>> I recently imported my OE6 accounts complete with messages address
>> book/contacts and rules.
>> The folder structure came over OK. Unfortunately many messages do not
>> land up in the folders they did on OE. It appears that the 'from'
>> content no longer matches that it did in OE. If I alter the rules
>> such that the 'from' contains the contacts name rather than their
>> address it seems to operate OK.
>> Is this a feature? Or have I missed a switch somewhere that enables
>> the address translation?
>> Geoff
>>
>> --
>> --
>>
>> Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could
>> remember the darn question
>>

It as with any email client 'message store' is breakable by the user or other third party applications(AV, firewall, mailwashing
programs, malware scanning etc).

WLM though unlike OE or OL saves each message(news and mail) as an individual file independent of its Mail.MessageStore file.

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail


"GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uGmL3XCOJHA.1164@xxxxxx

> Oh, wonderful,
> So what you're saying is I need to go edit all 700 odd rules to accommodate this whim?
> Micro$oft strikes again!
> At least the message store is robust, isn't it?

Are you manually applying the rule? If so you have run into a bug in
WLM.

When Manually applying a mail Message Rule criteria Where From Contains
'X'.

A From header can be of two forms:

1) From: Name <e-mail address>
2) From: e-mail address

When Manually applied, the rule does NOT check the e-mail address in
form #1 within the < >.

It will match the e-mail address in form #2. And it will match if
checking for Name.

The rule works perfectly when automatically applied to incoming POP3
message. It will match on the e-mail address in the <>.

The bug just appears to be with the From header. Testing on the To and
Cc headers when Manually applying rules works fine.


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uSEWvICOJHA.3480@xxxxxx

> Sorry if:
> a. this has been asked before, I couldn't find any posts regarding
> rules.
> b. my subject is confusing.
> I'm using WLM 2008 (BUILD 12.0.1606)? IE7, XP SP3
> was using OE6.
> I recently imported my OE6 accounts complete with messages address
> book/contacts and rules.
> The folder structure came over OK. Unfortunately many messages do not
> land up in the folders they did on OE. It appears that the 'from'
> content no longer matches that it did in OE. If I alter the rules such
> that the 'from' contains the contacts name rather than their address
> it seems to operate OK.
> Is this a feature? Or have I missed a switch somewhere that enables
> the address translation?
> Geoff
>
> --
> --
>
> Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could
> remember the darn question
>