Outlook 2000 Rules 1

[gahill]

I'm trying to create a rule that will delete E-mail where my name is not in the TO: box.
I receive all types of junk mail with names like "suspicious" etc in the TO: Line.
When I create the rule "Where my name is not in the TO:" field Outlook deletes all my E-mail even the ones with my legitimate garywhill@earthlink.net in the TO: Field.
I could find nothing in the Knowledge Base that addressed this issue.
Thank you

 

[smah]

Are you sure about the "NOT"? Are you sure that your email is in the TO field, not the CC field? Do you have other rules that could be acting on these messages? Are you sure they are being sent to @earthink.net, not .com?

Remember that the rule criteria works on the wildcard principal - earthlink will catch everything with some form of 'earthlink'. To test your rules for function, you may want to create a test folders and have your rules move to certain folders. Start with: where @ is not in the To field move it (this rule should not do anything). Then modify it to: where @earthlink is not in the To field move it (this should get closer, but could still miss some). Continue refining the rule until you find out where it's going wrong.