Hi Jason,

This is what I did to run the rule:
- Stop and restart Outlook
- Select the rule and run it

I specified the following conditions in the rule:
- sender is in Contacts address book, and on this machine only
- reply using C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\New address.oft

The template contains a simple update email text message, the recipient and
subject fields are empty.

The test messages were in the Inbox folder, but were not responded to by the
rule.

Is there a log file that would indicate why the rule is not executing
correctly? Or is there another way to debug this?

Thanks,
Paul

"Jason" wrote in message
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I thought it worked on all emails received but not already received before
the rule unless you go into rules and run rules.
"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
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autoreply rules only work for the first message from a person.

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"Paul Moore" wrote in message
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Hello,

I've been trying to set up an auto-reply rule in Outlook 2003 home (that
is, using my POP account with my ISP). I am in the process of changing
my ISP, and want to send an auto-reply message to all entries in my
Outlook contacts folder.

I specified the following conditions in the rule:
- sender is in Contacts address book, and on this machine only
- reply using C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\New address.oft

The template contains a simple update email text message, the recipient
and subject fields are empty.

I treid testing the rule by sending a message to myself, from both my
ISP account and from Gmail. I already have an entry for myself in the
Outlook contacts folder for these two addresses.

When I test the rule on the Inbox folders, no auto-reply messages are
sent, or even queued for sending in the Outbox folder.
Is there a better way to test and debug this this, for example by
examining a log file somewhere?

Many thanks,
Paul