My day was hardly started when I got the question why mail rules weren’t moving the mails to their folders. I went over to this person and had a look at his mailfile. Turns out he had over 150 rules that all move mails into certain folders based on their subject.
Some enabled mail rules were not executing, others did what they intended to do.
After a little searching this is what I found on the IBM support site:
The revised rule numbering functionality introduced in the Notes/Domino 6.5.4/6.0.5 mail templates has a minor flaw. This flaw causes the unexpected value in the OrderNum field, as well as in the $FilterFormula_n field written to the Calendar Profile. This can result in the last enabled rule to internally overwrite the second to last enabled rule, and thus the second to last rule is not present to execute. This can also result in an edited rule not executing – this case only occurs when there is only a single rule present.
NOTE: This issue does not exist in the DWA iNotes template.This issue was reported as a regression to Quality Engineering as SPR# KYOE6FMAPH. This issue has been indirectly fixed in the mail templates that ship with Notes/Domino 6.5.5.
Workarounds: In order to repair the current rules:
Disable all rules and then re-enable them from bottom to top.
In fact this just did the trick! After disabling all the rules and then enable them again one by one, it seems that the problem is solved.
Cross posted at svenm.wordpress.com
