On Mon, 22 May 2006 20:43:54 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

2 suggestions:
1. Reset your rules by stepping through them and directing them to the
proper Folders. I do not understand why rules would be affected if all you
did was copy data from another PST file. There must be more to this story.
Did you change the default delivery location for this profile?
2. Reset your Outlook Address Book by removing it from the profile,
restarting Outlook, and re-adding it. I do not understand why search
functions would be affected if all you did was copy data from another PST
file. There must be more to this story. Did you change the default delivery
location for this profile?

Russ,

1. I do keep stepping through the rules and creating them from
scratch. It's like the rules are OK and the target folders recognized
when I first create them and click on "Apply" right then, but then do
not recognize them when trying to process an actual incoming message.

And yes, after creating the new PST and new folders, and then copying
all messages from the old PST, I went into "Accounts" and reset the
mail delivery location to this newly created PST. Wasn't I supposed to
do that? It was the only way I could find to have an Inbox, etc.,
created for this PST and to have new messages go to these folders.

It does seem that this would be the likely place for something to go
wrong, as essages nowl being directed to this PST and the rules not
recognizing the target folders would seem to indicate that something
is failing in the mail direction/location.

I'll try walking through it once again - checking the default PST and
re-creating all rules once more.

I'll also reset the address book as you suggested.

Thanks.

--
Jim McGowan