the rules are kept in the registry.
there is a limit to the number of rules you can have.
do not know what the exact limit is.
check here on backup/restore of OE items.
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/







"Billy E. Karlinsey" wrote in message ...
I'm having a problem with my message rules. With may outlook express I have over 600 dbx file/folder to keep tack of my mail. to help manage the common received mail I setup over 130 message rules. Some how my Outlook Express hiccupped I get some message saying something about a error it shutdown Outlook Express and on restart I loss all my message rules. I was redoing them was up to about thirty and the program did it again. I could use some help thoughts on this problem. For starters just what file is this and what folder is it in. If it getting deleted I could copy a back up file to reinstall if lost at the least.
Billy