Rules

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Alex Hammerstein

Hi I am trying to set up a rule to move any emails sent to, or coming from a
specified email address into a separate folder.

The criteria I have set up is:
From > Contains > email address
Any Recipient > Contains > email address

Move > Folder

Having tested it, not a lot is happening. Can someone tell me if I have
done something wrong?

Thanks

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Michel Bintener

Have you made sure to select "If any criteria are met" as opposed to "If all
criteria are met"?


Hi I am trying to set up a rule to move any emails sent to, or coming from a
specified email address into a separate folder.

The criteria I have set up is:
From > Contains > email address
Any Recipient > Contains > email address

Move > Folder

Having tested it, not a lot is happening. Can someone tell me if I have
done something wrong?

Thanks

A
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Michel Bintener

Hi Alex,

it should. Are there no rules that run before this one, and does one of the
rules have "Do not apply other rules to messages that meet the criteria"
enabled? By the way, rules run in the order in which they appear in the
rules list, from top to bottom.


Hi Michel

Yes I did check that. I assume that it should be working?

Alex
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Diane Ross

Hi I am trying to set up a rule to move any emails sent to, or coming from a
specified email address into a separate folder.

The criteria I have set up is:
From > Contains > email address
Any Recipient > Contains > email address

Move > Folder
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Assign a category to that contact. Let's call it "special" for this example.

From is in category "special"
Is not from a mailing list <----this is optional if you don't belong to the
same mailing lists as the recipient

Move message to (select folder)

I find that category works better than trying to specify an address. The
part I'm not sure that is necessary is "Any recipient". Can you explain that
in more detail as to why that's included?

Screenshot of rule:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule002.html>
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William Smith [MVP]

Alex said:
Hi I am trying to set up a rule to move any emails sent to, or coming from a
specified email address into a separate folder.

The criteria I have set up is:
From > Contains > email address
Any Recipient > Contains > email address

Move > Folder
Click to expand...

You need to separate your criteria into an incoming and an outgoing
rule. You can't have one rule to move both types of messages.

"From > Contains > E-mail address" should be listed under POP, IMAP or
Exchange rules, depending on your account type.

"Any Recipient > Contains > E-mail address" should be listed under
Outgoing rules.

Hope this helps!

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