Does the Out of Office Rules override the Rules and Alerts Rules?

[DJ Ref]

We have set up a Rules and Alerts rule to move an email sent to a
distribution list to a folder. However when we are out of office we want
those emails to be deleted, so have set up an Out of Office rule to do that.

But now when we are Out of Office we get the email in both the deleted
folder and the selected folder, so it appears to be running both rules.

Can Out of Office Rules and Rules and Alerts Rules work in conjuction?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Yes, it works in conjunction with the OOF being executed first. Add the
condition "and stop processing more rules" to the delete rule.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/duplicates.htm

 

[DJ Ref]

Thanks Roady, this doesn't seem to have worked, although the theory of it is
good. I am using Outlook 2003, do you know of a bug with this version, or if
it should work ok?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Not that I'm aware of. I cannot repro the issue here.