Outlook 2007, rules and alerts not working

Hi Everyone,

I use imap e-mail account (not a gmail) and outlook 2007 client.
I have several rules to dump mails to different folders, they should work automatically, however it is not the case, e-mails arrive and no action is taken.
When I run the rules manually, it works as expected.

And yes rules have small box checked next to them, meaning that they are active, but it doesn't make any difference if it is checked or unchecked behavior is the same, no action is being taken unless i run the rules manually.

Summary: no action is being taken by outlook itself even-though rules are enabled.

currently I am testing only with one rule!

Additional info:

The filter that I am using is as follows:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
sent to e-mail_address
and with MY_WORD in the body
and on this machine only
disply NOTIFICIATION
and move to Folder
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Only works if I run the rule manually!

However if remove the word from message body, than it works automatically. thing is I have to filter e-mails based upon that specific word in the body.

Any ideas why the filter doesn't work automatically but works when it ran manualy??

Irene said:

Some interesting suggestions on this problem here:
Rules do not work automatically | MSOutlook.info

Tried this one, didn't solve the problem.
However identified new problem.

Outlook will filter messages without problem based upon sender or receiving email, rule works than.
As soon as I add word to the message header or body, or combination of those two, it stops. Same rule works if i run it manually.
This is still only rule that I am testing behavior with outlook. Still don't get the point why does it work when run manually.
In Addition: in send and receive I configured to download entire message content, headers body, attachments.

Irene said:

Some more ideas from people with same/similar problems:
Q&A: Outlook 2007 - rules do not run automatically | TechRepublic

Please let us know if any of them work for you. :)

This one was the first one that i googled.. didn't work so i started thread here :)

Irene said:

zrefa, I have just replicated your rule on my laptop which has Outlook 2007 and a specific email address.

I then send two test emails from my desktop using my main email address, including the phrase 'my_word' in the body of one and the subject of the other - it worked perfectly - I had an alert box with NOTIFICATION on it containing two emails, both of which had been transferred to the specified file!!

Don't know what to suggest now.
Illustration below - naturally I removed my email address.
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Thanks for testing this for me.
Are you using imap or exchange for your account ?