i created a rule where i take certain individuals e-mail and as soon as they get to my inbox i move the mail to another folder in outlook. The problem im having is that i no longer get the message envelope in outlook 2010 on the task bar saying that i have unread mail. I'm i missing something what particular part of the rule do i need to modify to add the envelope to the bottom task bar so that i know that i have unread mail eventhough its not in my inbox per se.

Thanks in advance to any suggestions anyone can offer.

You can't turn on the message envelope via rule, but you could have it pop up a message on the screen; similar to a reminder. Or have it show the New Item Alert window.

yeah but its e-mail that has not been read so unless i go looking in the envelope i will not know about it.
Im i right?

Well, yes, I suppose that's true.

Best solution for that is to create a Search Folder that aggregates your sub-folders. Then you only have to look at the search folder to see all the messages that came into those sub-folders.

i guess i was just expecting the taskbar envelope on the bottom of your monitor to show the envelope as it would when a new e-mail comes into the inbox.
But i guess there are some limitations to rules. Do you think their might be a way to acomplish this via vba?

I'm not much of a VBA guy so I don't know.

Not showing the envelope when a rule has moved the message is by design. Generally I think the sentiment is that messages moved to sub-folders aren't as important as messages in the Inbox and are often the product of high-traffic listservs.

If they activated the envelope every time a message came in that was moved to folders, for some of us, the envelope would never go off. I get mail from some list or another every minute or three. I don't use the envelope anyhow - but it would be useless to me if it fired every time I got a message that was moved.