Hi

My company uses and Exchange 2007 system with OL2003 clients. I personnaly
use categories extensively to handle my mails. Unfortunately the Exchange
server forwards my categories when ever I forward/reply to a message. This
also means that I get my colleagues categories.

Hence, I would like to remove the category on all incoming messages _before_
any rules are run (I have a number of client-only rules that assign new
categories).

I have tries three methods

1. Event ItemAdd
Advantage: Simple to use
Problem: It does not always fire

2. Event NewMailEx
Advantage: It always fires
Problem: It doen not always fire before the client rules. The result is that
the categories assigned by my rules are also removed (at least my macro works)

3. VB Script executed by a rule
Advantage: None really (read on)
Problem:
A: The load proposed on the system when OL is started increases
significantly (all the rules are heawy tu run).... BUT i can actually live
with that if it was not for...
B: Even if the rule is placed as the first rule OL does not always run it
before the other rules. Again the result is that my own categories are also
removed.

Any thoughts? I am thinking of a solution where I define categories in an
XLS file and handle all removal and assignment of categories in the NewMailEx
event... but I hope there is an easier way.

BR
-Jan