Rule with "Any Recipient" not working

Rules are applied at the time a message is received. Try selecting Mail > message > apply rules. Or hit the short cut OPT-CMD-L

Regards,
Captfred

Sorry, I didn't read your post carefully enough. I changed my mail rules around and can confirm your findings, "any recipient" isn't recognized. From and to are.

Looks like you'll have to set a 3 condition rule that if ANY are true: From is, To is, CC is.

Regards

I think you have the right definition of "any recipients". It looks like a bug that can be reported here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Regards

Actually, that rule works fine on my computer. When you test it on the message in your inbox, highlight the message you are talking about and click on apply rules.
If it doesn't work, be sure the text your making the rule on is correct. Try putting the name in the field and delete the rest of it to see if it works.

If you have other rules set up, you may look at what rules fire after to make sure none are changing it again. If so, either put it after that rule or add another line for mail to stop evaluating rules.

Addition: I would assume that any recipients would mean "TO", CC", & "BCC" fields combined.

Message was edited by: Glenn Leblanc

Previous recipients does not include "From". Recipients are the people get the email. If you send, they are recipient. If you recieve, you and whoever else it's addressed to are the recipients. TO, CC, BCC are recipient fields.

Most (if not all) valid emails do contain the actual address in the field. Only some get thru as hidden, but are usually junk. Some junk spam mails get thru as "Apparently TO" in the Expanded header field, but that's probably not included in the field of recipients that rules check.
I'm not sure what the periods do. They may split the address into separate words, but that's a guess form me.

*If you're putting the quotation marks in the rule box*, remember that one of the recipient fields of an email *will have to contain the exact text* to match what's in the rule (for at least one of the complete words) . Example: <"> in rules field will not match <myname@ *> in the recipient field of an email.

Without the quotation marks in the rules field, it will search the recipient fields for any part that contain that string of letters. Example: <myname> in rules field will match <myname@ *> in the email recipient field of an email.

Hope this makes sense.

*If you're putting the quotation marks in the rule box*, remember that one of the recipient fields of an email *will have to contain the exact text* to match what's in the rule (for at least one of the complete words) . Example: * "myname" * in rules field will not match <myname@ *> in the recipient field of an email.

Without the quotation marks in the rules field, it will search the recipient fields for any part that contain that string of letters. Example: <myname> in rules field will match <myname@ *> in the email recipient field of an email.

Sorry, the first try left out the words in the quotation field. The above text should show corrected. Had to take the arrows out to show the text in quotation.