Why have to run rules manually to process emails

[Yan Zhou]

Hi,

I am running outlook 2002 on a W2K box, with all up-to-date service packs.
Although I keep my outlook running, it sometimes does not filter out emails
when it should. And, if I manually run the rules (via rules wizard), the
emails are processed as specified by the rules.

Why is this? (I am aware that sometimes, when outlook starts up, it may not
process some emails; but this is not the case since my outlook is kept
running).

Thanks.

Yan