Hi... I have a question about rules:

Anne and Bob only send me messages about horses. But sometimes they
don't use the word 'horse' in their emails
Other people also send me messages about horses.

I want to move any horsey messages to a 'Horses' folder.

I have one rule which says "move messages from Anne or Bob to Horses"
and another which says "move messages with 'horse' in the body to
Horses."
The problem is that when Anne sends me a message which does use the
word horse, the message gets moved to the Horses folder twice, and
thus duplicated.

The ideal situation would be if I could create a rule that says "move
messages from Ann or Bob OR containing 'horse' to 'Horses" but the
options for creating rules all seem to be AND.

So, is there an OR option? or is there another way to solve my
problem. I'd be happy with a way to easily delete duplicate emails.

Thanks

Rob

NB: names and subject matters changed

The key to making this work is to add the "stop processing more rules" action to the "Anne or Bob" rule.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"rob craine" wrote in message oups.com...
Hi... I have a question about rules:

Anne and Bob only send me messages about horses. But sometimes they
don't use the word 'horse' in their emails
Other people also send me messages about horses.

I want to move any horsey messages to a 'Horses' folder.

I have one rule which says "move messages from Anne or Bob to Horses"
and another which says "move messages with 'horse' in the body to
Horses."
The problem is that when Anne sends me a message which does use the
word horse, the message gets moved to the Horses folder twice, and
thus duplicated.

The ideal situation would be if I could create a rule that says "move
messages from Ann or Bob OR containing 'horse' to 'Horses" but the
options for creating rules all seem to be AND.

So, is there an OR option? or is there another way to solve my
problem. I'd be happy with a way to easily delete duplicate emails.

Thanks

Rob

NB: names and subject matters changed

rob craine wrote at 04.07.2007 :
Hi... I have a question about rules:

Anne and Bob only send me messages about horses. But sometimes they
don't use the word 'horse' in their emails
Other people also send me messages about horses.

I want to move any horsey messages to a 'Horses' folder.

I have one rule which says "move messages from Anne or Bob to Horses"
and another which says "move messages with 'horse' in the body to
Horses."
The problem is that when Anne sends me a message which does use the
word horse, the message gets moved to the Horses folder twice, and
thus duplicated.

The ideal situation would be if I could create a rule that says "move
messages from Ann or Bob OR containing 'horse' to 'Horses" but the
options for creating rules all seem to be AND.

So, is there an OR option? or is there another way to solve my
problem. I'd be happy with a way to easily delete duplicate emails.

Thanks

Rob

NB: names and subject matters changed

Hello,
if I understand you correct, you have a mistake in your rules.
Add "and don't execute another rule" to the rules.
(Maybe this named other, because I used not the english version)
This should fix your problem, the first rule wich match the mail get
execute, but after that outlook stop to execute rules on this mail.

Peter

That sounds perfect - thanks to both Sue and Peter

On 4 Jul, 14:13, "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:
The key to making this work is to add the "stop processing more rules" action to the "Anne or Bob" rule.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54



"rob craine" wrote in ooglegroups.com...
Hi... I have a question about rules:

Anne and Bob only send me messages about horses. But sometimes they
don't use the word 'horse' in their emails
Other people also send me messages about horses.

I want to move any horsey messages to a 'Horses' folder.

I have one rule which says "move messages from Anne or Bob to Horses"
and another which says "move messages with 'horse' in the body to
Horses."
The problem is that when Anne sends me a message which does use the
word horse, the message gets moved to the Horses folder twice, and
thus duplicated.

The ideal situation would be if I could create a rule that says "move
messages from Ann or Bob OR containing 'horse' to 'Horses" but the
options for creating rules all seem to be AND.

So, is there an OR option? or is there another way to solve my
problem. I'd be happy with a way to easily delete duplicate emails.

Thanks