Rules don't automatically apply

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Jane

Hi,

I'm receiving a massive amount of spam e-mail (and
unfortunately having read the Vangard spiel from ealier
in the month believe much of it has occurred due to my
presence on these newsgroups). Regardless, I've tried to
set up rules for deleting the spam. I receive a piece,
right click it, and select Create Rule. I select either
the text in the From option, or the text in the subject
and/or body option. I don't change the automatic text
that appears. Then, in the next screen I select delete.
(BTW, what is the difference between delete and moving to
the delete folder option?) That is all I do.

These rules are not running when I open Outlook. They
don't have "Client only" after them, and I've read a lot
of the earlier posts on rules which hasn't really
explained why mine aren't working.

Any assistance?

Jane
 
BUMP because I'm having the same issue. We have sales
reports that come in every day from our web server. The
come from a PoP account, and are delivered to a personal
folder. I can "organize" the inbox, and assign rules, and
they go quite well..... for that first attempt. Subsequent
days, or messages after the setup, do not work. Yes the
rules are active. I'm not sure what the problem is. I can
go into the rules wizard, select all my rules, and run
now, and it works. But WHY doesn't it automatically run ?
TIA
 
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