Subject : MS Outlook 2000  Message rules Macro

I am looking for a tool, utility, application or programmer that will
allow me to place an Icon or Button on a toolbar in MS Outlook 2000
that when clicked, will run/process all of the rules that I already
defined in the rules wizard.  (Sounds like a Macro) For Example: When
this button is pushed all of the Emails currently in the Inbox from
“Bob Smith” will be moved to the “Bob Smith” Folder.  I DO NOT WANT
OUTLOOK TO AUTOMATICALLY MOVE THE EMAIL MESSGAES WHEN THEY ARRIVE, as
is normally the case when you create a rule in the wizard.  I want to
be able to initiate the transfer with a single mouse click.  The idea
is to run/process all of the rules that are defined in the rules
wizard without having to open the Rules Wizard manually select each
specific rule and click run now.

Take a look at this posting from the
microsoft.public.outlook.teamfolders newsgroup. Good luck.

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Rules are not exposed in the Outlook object model. There is some
limited
functionality for viewing and setting (but not running) rules with the
Rules COM component + CDO. See
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/exstech.htm
for references. 

The only way I can think of to run rules programmatically would be to
mimic the user's keystrokes with SendKeys. 

-- 
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
   Outlook and Exchange Solutions 
   at http://www.slipstick.com

Sue's absolutely right (as she usually is). The only way I can think
of to do this would be to create the rule actions as VBS code -- thus
you'd have a set of macros rather than a set of rules to run. Not very
easy unless you're good a coding VB.

-Coach-