Filter challenged: Not working as I expected 1

[dcmatt]

Hello,
I now have a company Blackberry which is synced to our GroupWise mail system. I'm now attempting to use filters to avoid my Blackberry getting every message in the universe. I have 3 rules and they are (in order as you bring up the RULES dialog in GW):

1) IBM_Essential
When Event is "NEW ITEM" and ITEMS ARE RECEIVED
CONDITIONS: Act on items where (ITEM TYPE is MAIL)and
FROM contains "@us.ibm.com"
Then actions are: MOVE TO FOLDER:IBM
STOP RULE PROCESSING

2) TMS_DAILY
When Event is "NEW ITEM" and ITEMS ARE RECEIVED
CONDITIONS: Act on items where (ITEM TYPE is MAIL)and
SUBJECT contains "FWD:TSM BACKUP DAILY STATUS"
and FROM contains "TMS DAILY REPORT
Then actions are: MOVE TO FOLDER:TMS DAILY
STOP RULE PROCESSING

3) all_filter
When Event is "NEW ITEM" and ITEMS ARE RECEIVED
CONDITIONS: Act on items where (ITEM TYPE is MAIL or)
TASK or REMINDER NOTE and
TO contains "mgilliam@wmata.com"
Then actions are: MOVE TO FOLDER:all_in
STOP RULE PROCESSING

4) ESSENTIAL
When Event is "NEW ITEM" and ITEMS ARE RECEIVED
CONDITIONS: Act on items where (ITEM TYPE is MAIL)and
FROM does not contain "@"
Then actions are: MOVE TO FOLDER:MAILBOX

Those are my 4 rules in order. What I'm trying to achieve:
1) All mail from anyone@us.ibm.com goes to IBM folder
2) All mail with Subject="FWD:TSM DAILY BACKUP STATUS" and FROM="TMS DAILY REPORT" goes to TMS folder
3) All mail not fitting the above (in other words...junk & stuff) goes to folder all_in
4) All mail originating in my company then goes to "MAILBOX"

Rules 1-3 appear to be working. However...and this is a good example...after registering for this site, I received the Welcome to TekTips Forum email with a FROM of "Tek-Tips Forums <welcome@tek-tips.com>". This email went to my "MAILBOX". By the rules I have, the desire was for this email to go to the "all_in" folder (processed by Rule #4).

Can someone clue me in as to why this mail went to MAILBOX as opposed to "all_in".

Thanks for the help

 

[teresas]

Could it be the 'TO contains "mgilliam@wmata.com' condition? I've had to use my first & last name (display name) in rules (even though Tek-Tips or whomever only knows my email address).

Teresa

 

[dcmatt]

I'm clueless....but rule #4 did not test "TO"; it only said that if "FROM" does NOT contain '@'. As it stands now, the all_in folder is always empty.

 

[dcmatt]

...And I mistyped.....rules 1,2 & 4 appear to be working; it's rule # 3 that seems to not be processing...email that contains "myemail@wmata.com" is going to MAILBOX as opposed to going to the all_in folder.

 

[teresas]

I was referring to rule #3 when I said "Could it be the 'TO contains "(yourname)@wmata.com' condition?" I was considering your comment that the Tek-Tips email didn't go into the "all_in" folder. Perhaps GroupWise doesn't see mail coming from Tek-Tips as having a "To" of (yourname)@wmata.com. But I may have been incorrect about that. What was the star for?

Teresa

 

[dcmatt]

teresas,
Perhaps true...but again...this morning as an example, this morning, the following email came to my "MAILBOX" with the following "FROM" information: "SearchServerVirtualization.com" <searchServerVirtualization@lists.techtarget.com>. The "TO" information was (myname)@wmata.com
. So this email met both tests of "FROM" as well as "TO" in Rule #3. And yet, it did go to "MAILBOX" as opposed to my "all_in" folder.

In any event, the filters are working "enough" that my Blackberry isn't getting overwhelmed...and I can live with that. (They're all working great today....LOL...BlackBerry is having a hemisphere-wide outage challenge so I'm getting no messages at all!)

Thanks for your comments.