OL 2016. "Running rule now" stops too soon.

[BudVitoff]

Running Outlook 2016 under Win10, working offline.

I created a simple "Run Now" rule to scan a folder containing 2005 messages and move any message with a certain recipient to a temporary folder. I know there are 250 messages with that recipient, but my rule finds only two of them.

This effort is about as simple as you can get, so I'm doing something very dumb -- I just don't know what it is.

Any ideas?

[gmayor]

Use the following macro instead. I have provided alternative lines for messages to someone and from someone. In the case of To, it does not include messages with multiple addresses in 'To ' nor messages where the address is in CC or BCC. For those you would have to loop though the recpients.

Sub MoveMessages()
Dim olFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim olItems As Outlook.Items
Dim olItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim i As Long
Dim strAddress As String
Dim strFolder As String

    strAddress = "someone@somewhere.com"
    strFolder = "Temp" 'subfolder of the default Inbox - must exist
    Set olItems = Session.PickFolder.Items 'Pick the folder containing the messages
    olItems.Sort "[Received]", True
    For i = olItems.Count To 1 Step -1
        Set olItem = olItems(i)
        'If olItem.SenderEmailAddress = strAddress Then 'Messages from someone
        If olItem.To = strAddress Then    'messages to someone
            olItem.Move Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).folders(strFolder)
        End If
        DoEvents
    Next i
    MsgBox "Messages Moved"
lbl_Exit:
    Set olItems = Nothing
    Set olItem = Nothing
    Exit Sub
End Sub

[BudVitoff]

Thanks for your response. It brought back some fond memories of BASIC, although I have to admit that I don't know how and where to invoke your subroutine.

Be that as it may, you didn't answer my question which is simply: Why does this rule

Apply this rule after the message arrives
with xxx in the recipient's address
move it to the yyy folder
and stop processing more rules

find only two qualified messages when I know there are 250 in the input folder?

I hope other visitors here will not hesitate to give an answer because "you've already answered it".

[BudVitoff]

My bad.

The rule works just fine. I came to some wrong conclusions because I mis-used Outlook's Search function.

Admin: We can close/delete/whatever this thread.