OL2002: IMAP: Rule runs sporatically, sometimes fails

[Rick]

Our email is hosted on a third-party IMAP server (Sun
iPlanet) by an outside agency. I appears that Outlook
overall can't be internally configured to open with focus
on the IMAP Inbox folder, though OL 2000 could be given a
comand line option (/select "Outlook:\\<account
name>\Inbox") to force focus on the IMAP inbox at
startup. The /select command line option above does not
work with OL2002. To attempt to fix this problem in
OL2002, I created a rule to move all messages from the
IMAP inbox to the .PST Inbox, but the rule does not run
reliably: occassionally the rule runs correctly, usually
it moves only a few seemingly random mesages, sometimes it
fails to run at all, many times it fails with an error
message indicating a rules wizard failure.

Is there a way to perform the command-line functionality
in OL2002 as OL2000 did? Is there a solution to the
erratic Rules Wizard function?

Remove both ".nospam" to reply via email

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

copy the account and folder name from the address bar (web toolbar)
I'm using
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe" /select
outlook:\\fauna\Inbox
and it opens my imap account named fauna.

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