I have been using Outlook 2007 for a few years with my hotmail account. I have the Outlook Connecter -- latest just installed recently. I have always used folders to store my mail. Over the week end I decided to use rules to sort the mail into the folders. I also use outlook, under a different profile for my business mail. Here we use Micorsoft Exchange stuff, so at home I use a VPN connection to get my mail. I always used rules with my business mail. The rules I set up for my business profil work.
The rules for my hotmail account do not work. I set them up using the Creat Rule function as I opened my mail over the weekend. My general process was to choose the From function as the triger and then tell it to put it in a folder of my choice.
An example. This is the rule for the Carnegie Museum stuff.


Apply this rule after the message arives
From the Carnegie Science Center
and on this machine only
Move it to the Carnegie Museums folder.

Need to get "and on this machine only" out (asside)

Made lots of rules, but they don't work. Nothing moves out of my inbox.

jrosnhamer

Unfortunately the Hotmail account is basically a webmail account, even though it is accessed via the Outlook Connector. Outlook cannot apply rules to webmail accounts.

I'd suggest setting up the rules in Hotmail itself by logging in to the Hotmail webmail portal. Any rules you set up there will automatically be applied as they come in, without Outlook having to be connected.

Also, the "and on this machine only" always applies unless you are connected to an Exchange server. Unchecking that option sets a rule to be run server-side, and Outlook only supports managing server-side rules in Exchange.

-SW