Rules- through specified account / to specified folder not working

[rin01]

I am using Windows7 and Outlook 2007 with two separate email accounts. I am
having trouble setting up the email rules to move emails that come in through
my account into my folder. I go to the rules wizard and select "New Rule".
I check the "Start From a Blank Rule", "Check Messages When They Arrive",
"through the specified account" and select my account. I hit next and select
"move to the specified folder" and select my folder in Personal Folders. I
hit "Finish" to exit the wizard and go back to the Rules and Alerts window
but when I close that window or hit "Apply", the rule changes the specified
account to the other email account in my Outlook every time. How do I get the
rule to stick to my account?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The issue might be in the way the accounts got configured or the type of
accounts that you are using.

There is no need to create a rule for this though. In your Account Settings
on the E-mail tab you can directly assign a different delivery location for
your POP3 accounts.

 

[VanguardLH]

I am using Windows7 and Outlook 2007 with two separate email accounts. I am
having trouble setting up the email rules to move emails that come in through
my account into my folder. I go to the rules wizard and select "New Rule".
I check the "Start From a Blank Rule", "Check Messages When They Arrive",
"through the specified account" and select my account. I hit next and select
"move to the specified folder" and select my folder in Personal Folders. I
hit "Finish" to exit the wizard and go back to the Rules and Alerts window
but when I close that window or hit "Apply", the rule changes the specified
account to the other email account in my Outlook every time. How do I get the
rule to stick to my account?

And the *type* of e-mail account is what? POP, HTTP, or Exchange?

Client-side rules (those defined within Outlook) cannot be applied
against HTTP accounts. If you are using HTTP/Deltasynce to give you
IMAP-like access to your Hotmail account's folders, you'll have to
define server-side rules (using the limited functionality of those
rules). Use the webmail interface to your Hotmail account to go into
its options to define filters (aka rules) to organize your e-mails.

See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/332, "Rules support" section.