Outlook: Suddenly Rules doesn’t run automatically, but runs when I click “Run rules now”, manually

--Anand-- Computers and Internet August 13, 2016 1 Minute

If Outlook rules stopped firing automatically, then most probably the rules files has corrupted in user profile. To fix this issue, Rename (or delete) Outlook.SRS file at following location:

C:\Users\<replace username here>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook

I hope you are back in business…leave me a note if it worked. 🙂

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Published August 13, 2016

9 thoughts on “Outlook: Suddenly Rules doesn’t run automatically, but runs when I click “Run rules now”, manually”

OJ SL450 says:

July 6, 2017 at 9:25 am

Hi Anand,
I came across tghe same issue, and found your feedback initially strange, but then: very helpful; My Outlook rules are running as expected now, directly from O365 after deleting/renaming the srs file (it auto-created it after renaming …) Thx !

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Darrell says:

December 28, 2017 at 7:28 pm

This didn’t help me. I’ve tried everything I’ve found on Google to try and get them to work but alas I have to run the rules manually all day long. I’m amazed that after all these years, Microsoft still can’t get rules to work reliably in Outlook.

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Brian Scott says:

January 2, 2018 at 4:50 am

wow – worked for me – at last things work properly again 🙂

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Jacob says:

January 12, 2018 at 11:56 am

Thanks a ton! Finally got tired of dealing with it!

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Swaty Gupta says:

January 17, 2018 at 1:12 am

Not working .

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1. Toni Hummer says:
  
  February 15, 2018 at 6:13 am
  
  Didn’t work for me either 😦
  
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  1. Ricky Bobby says:
    
    June 19, 2018 at 8:04 am
    
    Didnt work for me either
Tom Yeager says:

January 25, 2019 at 8:29 pm

This has worked for me in the past, but not this time.

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Dave Peters says:

July 31, 2019 at 3:39 pm

Worked like a charm. Thank you, Anand! Btw, for those for whom the solution didn’t work, perhaps ensure you have the latest version of Windows 10 and all updates installed.

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