Duplicate email messages from Hotmail account.....

[Jones]

I have been getting duplicate messages in my local folders. I finally
figured out the reason. Rules that move messages off of my Hotmail server
to my local folders are being applied to the emails as they arrive in my
inbox, and then again when they show up in the Deleted Items folder.

So I wrote a rule that doesn't do anything, but executes if the 'Folder' 'is
not' my Inbox. I checked the "Do not apply other rules..." box and put the
rule at the top of the rules list. I think that should abort all of the
following rules for all folders except the Inbox.

Well, when that rule is active, none of the rules execute on my Inbox or
anywhere else. Messages just sit in my inbox until I select all of the
messages in my inbox and run all rules manually. Then the rules run as
expected. I don't understand why the rules would work when I run them
manually, but not when they run automatically.

The only thing that could be wrong that I can think of is that I'm
misunderstanding the 'Folder' criteria. Does anyone know how the 'Folder'
criteria works? I assumed that it refers to the folder containing the
message that the rule is applying to. Does it mean something different?
Like maybe the currently open folder, or ???

Thanks.