Outlook rules

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rob craine

Hi... I have a question about rules:

Anne and Bob only send me messages about horses. But sometimes they
don't use the word 'horse' in their emails
Other people also send me messages about horses.

I want to move any horsey messages to a 'Horses' folder.

I have one rule which says "move messages from Anne or Bob to Horses"
and another which says "move messages with 'horse' in the body to
Horses."
The problem is that when Anne sends me a message which does use the
word horse, the message gets moved to the Horses folder twice, and
thus duplicated.

The ideal situation would be if I could create a rule that says "move
messages from Ann or Bob OR containing 'horse' to 'Horses" but the
options for creating rules all seem to be AND.

So, is there an OR option? or is there another way to solve my
problem. I'd be happy with a way to easily delete duplicate emails.

Thanks

Rob

NB: names and subject matters changed
 
The key to making this work is to add the "stop processing more rules" action to the "Anne or Bob" rule.
 
rob craine wrote at 04.07.2007 :
Hi... I have a question about rules:
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Anne and Bob only send me messages about horses. But sometimes they
don't use the word 'horse' in their emails
Other people also send me messages about horses.
Click to expand...
I want to move any horsey messages to a 'Horses' folder.
Click to expand...
I have one rule which says "move messages from Anne or Bob to Horses"
and another which says "move messages with 'horse' in the body to
Horses."
The problem is that when Anne sends me a message which does use the
word horse, the message gets moved to the Horses folder twice, and
thus duplicated.
Click to expand...
The ideal situation would be if I could create a rule that says "move
messages from Ann or Bob OR containing 'horse' to 'Horses" but the
options for creating rules all seem to be AND.
Click to expand...
So, is there an OR option? or is there another way to solve my
problem. I'd be happy with a way to easily delete duplicate emails.


NB: names and subject matters changed
Click to expand...

Hello,
if I understand you correct, you have a mistake in your rules.
Add "and don't execute another rule" to the rules.
(Maybe this named other, because I used not the english version)
This should fix your problem, the first rule wich match the mail get
execute, but after that outlook stop to execute rules on this mail.

Peter
 
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