Rules

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I'm trying to understand how rules are applied in order to move messages into
the best folder for my purposes. I get a lot of emails with the word "Alert"
in them. I'd like to move all of these to a specific folder. That's easy.
But in addition, if the message says "Alert - Disk space is low" I'd like to
move that message to a different folder. So how does Outlook determine which
rule to apply? It could go from most specific to least specific. Or it
could do it based on when the rules were created. Or some other approach.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
 
dhstein said:
I'm trying to understand how rules are applied in order to move messages into
the best folder for my purposes. I get a lot of emails with the word "Alert"
in them. I'd like to move all of these to a specific folder. That's easy.
But in addition, if the message says "Alert - Disk space is low" I'd like to
move that message to a different folder. So how does Outlook determine which
rule to apply? It could go from most specific to least specific. Or it
could do it based on when the rules were created. Or some other approach.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
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Rules are processed in the order listed. You can arrange the order of the
rules. Define a rule that looks for "Disk space is low" and position it
before your "Alert" rule.
 
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