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Jason Stegman
I've seen this question posted a couple of times on the web and usenet, but
have not seen a decent solution. So I guess I'll try it again.
I'm running outlook 2003 sp2 with exchange 2003. I have setup one profile
with one exchange account and 2 POP accounts that outlook downloads locally.
All email goes to the same inbox and then is moved to appropriate folders via
rules. I use only one Mailbox with no pst files. Everything goes to one
place. My primary computer is a convertable pc that goes everywhere with me.
At home I don't have access to the exchange server, but i still download my
email from my pop accounts. My rules, however, only work when i'm connected
to the exchange server. I would have thought that the client-side (run on
this machine only) rules would have been stored locally since they are run
locally. Unless i'm missing something obvious, it appearently doesn't work
that way.
I don't see any good reason for outlook to force this behavior. I know the
comment that most people come back with on this subject goes something like
this: "if you're offline, how do you expect to receive mail?" Well in this
case I'm not get my mail just from the exchange server. If outlook gives us
the ability to download internet email outside of exchange, it should also
give us the ability to organize it automatically outside of exchange. I
understand the convience of exchange processing rules when you are not
connected and therefore keeping the rules on the server and not the local
computer, but not when I have designated the rules as client-side.
My question is two-fold:
(1) What is microsofts reason for this behavior and do they plan on changing
it?
(2) Does anyone know of a workaround or add-in for this problem?
I appoligize for the blunt tone, but I'm a bit frustrated.
Thanks for your time,
-Jason Stegman
have not seen a decent solution. So I guess I'll try it again.
I'm running outlook 2003 sp2 with exchange 2003. I have setup one profile
with one exchange account and 2 POP accounts that outlook downloads locally.
All email goes to the same inbox and then is moved to appropriate folders via
rules. I use only one Mailbox with no pst files. Everything goes to one
place. My primary computer is a convertable pc that goes everywhere with me.
At home I don't have access to the exchange server, but i still download my
email from my pop accounts. My rules, however, only work when i'm connected
to the exchange server. I would have thought that the client-side (run on
this machine only) rules would have been stored locally since they are run
locally. Unless i'm missing something obvious, it appearently doesn't work
that way.
I don't see any good reason for outlook to force this behavior. I know the
comment that most people come back with on this subject goes something like
this: "if you're offline, how do you expect to receive mail?" Well in this
case I'm not get my mail just from the exchange server. If outlook gives us
the ability to download internet email outside of exchange, it should also
give us the ability to organize it automatically outside of exchange. I
understand the convience of exchange processing rules when you are not
connected and therefore keeping the rules on the server and not the local
computer, but not when I have designated the rules as client-side.
My question is two-fold:
(1) What is microsofts reason for this behavior and do they plan on changing
it?
(2) Does anyone know of a workaround or add-in for this problem?
I appoligize for the blunt tone, but I'm a bit frustrated.
Thanks for your time,
-Jason Stegman