Outlook rules, processing not terminated after first match?

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Sven Pran

I have a set of rules for incoming messages and I have been very careful
about their relative ordering.

All the rules have the same structure: If <condition> then move the message
to folder <xxx>

Although I have specified "move" and not "copy" within every rule I am
surprised to experience messages being processed by more than one of my
rules.

Is this the way it is supposed to work?

Some of my rules have "overlapping" conditions and I had expected the first
rule with a matching <condition> to be the one and only rule applied to a
message but I experience every such rule being applied.

Suggestions anybody?

regards Sven
 
ALL rules will run that apply in the order that they are in
the Rules Wizard window (ie, top rule runs first, then the
next, and so on)

I setup my rules so that they run in the order that I want
and I select at the bottom of each rule
"stop processing more rules" so that if mail meets that
rules criteria it runs that rule and then does not continue
to see if it meets any other rules criteria.

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Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

I have a set of rules for incoming messages and I have been very careful
about their relative ordering.

All the rules have the same structure: If <condition> then move the message
to folder <xxx>

Although I have specified "move" and not "copy" within every rule I am
surprised to experience messages being processed by more than one of my
rules.

Is this the way it is supposed to work?

Some of my rules have "overlapping" conditions and I had expected the first
rule with a matching <condition> to be the one and only rule applied to a
message but I experience every such rule being applied.

Suggestions anybody?

regards Sven
 
Nikki said:
ALL rules will run that apply in the order that they are in
the Rules Wizard window (ie, top rule runs first, then the
next, and so on)

I setup my rules so that they run in the order that I want
and I select at the bottom of each rule
"stop processing more rules" so that if mail meets that
rules criteria it runs that rule and then does not continue
to see if it meets any other rules criteria.
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Thanks for the tip!

regards Sven
 
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