While we are talking about Rules..

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Phillip Harris

Another glitch is the way Entourage handles applying "All Rules" vs,
selected rules. If I select all of the messages on the Exchange
"Inbox" and hit "All Rules" I seem to be getting a 1:4 successful
attempts at scanning all the messages as opposed to entourage just
doing nothing, and out of those 1:4, approximately 50% (not scientific
analysis by any means) of the time messages are left sitting there when
a rule was in place to move them. If I select the same messages and
apply a specific rule, about (again) 50% of the time entourage executes
the rule, but I at least get over the 1:4 hit rate "All rules" gives
me..

Any suggestions..??

Phil
 
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Diane Ross [MVP]

Another glitch is the way Entourage handles applying "All Rules" vs,
selected rules. If I select all of the messages on the Exchange
"Inbox" and hit "All Rules" I seem to be getting a 1:4 successful
attempts at scanning all the messages as opposed to entourage just
doing nothing, and out of those 1:4, approximately 50% (not scientific
analysis by any means) of the time messages are left sitting there when
a rule was in place to move them. If I select the same messages and
apply a specific rule, about (again) 50% of the time entourage executes
the rule, but I at least get over the 1:4 hit rate "All rules" gives
me..

Any suggestions..??
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A prior rule is acting on the message and no additional rules are able to
act on that message. You can drag rules to a higher position, but MLM and
JMF will always run before rules if either one is enabled.

Actions which Move messages or run AppleScripts cannot be followed by other
rules.
 
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Phillip Harris

Well, I have my Rules in the order I want them to execute, as all of
the rules move messages to a folder on "my computer" (and that's all)
it seems that if the previous rule does it's job, I don't need any more
actions anyway, although a "Stop processing other rules" action would
be nice..

OK, I'm sure I should have the magic decoder ring for your acronyms
(MLM and JMF) but...???

On your last point, as all I want is a simple "move to" action, and no
more, that's fine...

Phil
 
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Phillip Harris

OK, Junk Mail Filter == JMF and MLM hmmm, Mailing List Manager?? ok, (a
few glasses of Merlot did the trick there), sorry for previous
ignorance..

So sure JMF (hopefully) does kick in (which it appears to), and I have
no MLM entries so I'm not sure looking there helps...

So, thoughts???
 
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Diane Ross [MVP]

Well, I have my Rules in the order I want them to execute, as all of
the rules move messages to a folder on "my computer" (and that's all)
it seems that if the previous rule does it's job, I don't need any more
actions anyway, although a "Stop processing other rules" action would
be nice..
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Once rules are run on a message, you cannot run rules on message again. Is
it possible your top level rules are acting on the messages you want another
rule to move?

If you can give examples of your rules, perhaps we can see what is going
wrong.
 
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Mickey Stevens

Well, I have my Rules in the order I want them to execute, as all of
the rules move messages to a folder on "my computer" (and that's all)
it seems that if the previous rule does it's job, I don't need any more
actions anyway, although a "Stop processing other rules" action would
be nice..
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That's what the "Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these
criteria" checkbox is for. Notice that it's automatically checked for
messages with the "Move" action.
 
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