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Lionel H
With apologies for the essay ...
I am on Outlook 2003 (11.8169.8172) SP3.
I use Redemption to get round the MS security sledgehammer.
I have a number of subfolders within my InBox.
I use Rules to move items to these subfolders.
I use the myInBoxFolders_FolderChange event handler to perform further work
on incoming mail items.
[I am not a trained programmer and therefore get code to where I want it to
be by trial and error. This can make my code a bit messy.]
I also have a great deal of code in my personal.xls workbook (relevance
comes later); some of my xl macros intiate (and, I hope, correctly terminate
) Outlook sessions.
The vast majority of the rules and the code were written while I was on
Office 97 or 2000. This problem only started when I moved from Office 2000 to
Office 2003
I have 11 rules.
All rules end with “…and stop processing more rules.†[done on advice from
other discussions]
All Rules are client-only.
Whenever I select one/more/all of these rules and run them manually, the
selected set of rules always run correctly.
On connection to my mail server, all outstanding messages are correctly
downloaded to my Inbox.
More often than not, the rules do not work automatically following
connection to my server.
You may find the next bit difficult to believe but …
I find that, if I get the timing right, I can force the rules to work
automatically by :
Ensure xl running but stalled on an InputBox (macro does not interact
with Outlook)
Click Launch Outlook icon on start bar
Click OK on xl.InputBox before Outlook gets its splash screen up
All rules will now run correctly and automatically as and when new mail
items come in from the server for the life of this Outlook session.
Can anyone explain this?
Is it me or is it MS?
Is there a registry setting that I might inadvertantly be playing with?
TIA
Lionel
I am on Outlook 2003 (11.8169.8172) SP3.
I use Redemption to get round the MS security sledgehammer.
I have a number of subfolders within my InBox.
I use Rules to move items to these subfolders.
I use the myInBoxFolders_FolderChange event handler to perform further work
on incoming mail items.
[I am not a trained programmer and therefore get code to where I want it to
be by trial and error. This can make my code a bit messy.]
I also have a great deal of code in my personal.xls workbook (relevance
comes later); some of my xl macros intiate (and, I hope, correctly terminate
) Outlook sessions.
The vast majority of the rules and the code were written while I was on
Office 97 or 2000. This problem only started when I moved from Office 2000 to
Office 2003
I have 11 rules.
All rules end with “…and stop processing more rules.†[done on advice from
other discussions]
All Rules are client-only.
Whenever I select one/more/all of these rules and run them manually, the
selected set of rules always run correctly.
On connection to my mail server, all outstanding messages are correctly
downloaded to my Inbox.
More often than not, the rules do not work automatically following
connection to my server.
You may find the next bit difficult to believe but …
I find that, if I get the timing right, I can force the rules to work
automatically by :
Ensure xl running but stalled on an InputBox (macro does not interact
with Outlook)
Click Launch Outlook icon on start bar
Click OK on xl.InputBox before Outlook gets its splash screen up
All rules will now run correctly and automatically as and when new mail
items come in from the server for the life of this Outlook session.
Can anyone explain this?
Is it me or is it MS?
Is there a registry setting that I might inadvertantly be playing with?
TIA
Lionel