Rules duplicating email instead of moving

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Bob Levine

Outlook 2003 WinXP Pro SP2

I've set up a rule to read the headers of incoming emails and when
finding the appropriate text to move the email to a certain folder.

Problem is that the emails are being copied to that folder instead of
being moved there so I have two copies.

If anyone has any clues, I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks,

Bob
 
Bob said:
Outlook 2003 WinXP Pro SP2

I've set up a rule to read the headers of incoming emails and when
finding the appropriate text to move the email to a certain folder.

Problem is that the emails are being copied to that folder instead of
being moved there so I have two copies.

If anyone has any clues, I'd sure appreciate it.
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Almost forgot. I'm using a POP3 account, not Exchange.

Bob
 
Bob Levine said:
Outlook 2003 WinXP Pro SP2

I've set up a rule to read the headers of incoming emails and when
finding the appropriate text to move the email to a certain folder.

Problem is that the emails are being copied to that folder instead of
being moved there so I have two copies.
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Be sure to include the "stop processing more rules" action on each rule that
wants to move a message.
 
Brian said:
Be sure to include the "stop processing more rules" action on each rule
that wants to move a message.
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Thanks for the response. Can you give me a brief explanation of what
that does?

Bob
 
Exactly what it says - no more rules/actions are applied to that email.

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After furious head scratching, Bob Levine asked:

| Brian Tillman wrote:
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||| Outlook 2003 WinXP Pro SP2
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||| I've set up a rule to read the headers of incoming emails and when
||| finding the appropriate text to move the email to a certain folder.
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||| Problem is that the emails are being copied to that folder instead
||| of being moved there so I have two copies.
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|| Be sure to include the "stop processing more rules" action on each
|| rule that wants to move a message.
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| Thanks for the response. Can you give me a brief explanation of what
| that does?
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| Bob
 
Milly said:
Exactly what it says - no more rules/actions are applied to that email.
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I think I know what was happening. It was already moving to one folder
and since I had two moves attached to them they were winding up in both
folders.

Thanks,

Bob
 
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