How to get rules to fall through.

[jtpryan]

I want to have some rules that will look at a message and assign a
category to it. Then, if it meets other criteria, move it to a
folder. So say I have a rule that says if the sender has one of 20
domains in it's name then it will be in the business category. If it
then is from Company One, it will be moved to the Company One folder.

The problem is, if I don't select "stop processing more rules", the
category rule never get's applied. My thought was that if I had the
category rules at the top of the list without this box checked it
would fall through after assigning it a category until it met another
rule it matched, then stop processing. What am I doing wrong?

-Jim

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That is how it works indeed.
What doesn't work for you?
Doesn't the email get its category?
Doesn't the email get moved to the other folder?

What if you disable the other rule(s)?
Does it work now?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I want to have some rules that will look at a message and assign a

category to it. Then, if it meets other criteria, move it to a
folder. So say I have a rule that says if the sender has one of 20
domains in it's name then it will be in the business category. If it
then is from Company One, it will be moved to the Company One folder.

The problem is, if I don't select "stop processing more rules", the
category rule never get's applied. My thought was that if I had the
category rules at the top of the list without this box checked it
would fall through after assigning it a category until it met another
rule it matched, then stop processing. What am I doing wrong?

IIRC, the default rule at the bottom of the list is to remove all categories.

Did you disable that rule?

 

[jtpryan]

That is how it works indeed.
What doesn't work for you?
Doesn't the email get its category?
Doesn't the email get moved to the other folder?

What if you disable the other rule(s)?
Does it work now?

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I want to have some rules that will look at a message and assign a
category to it.  Then, if it meets other criteria, move it to a
folder.  So say I have a rule that says if the sender has one of 20
domains in it's name then it will be in the business category.  If it
then is from Company One, it will be moved to the Company One folder.

The problem is, if I don't select "stop processing more rules", the
category rule never get's applied.  My thought was that if I had the
category rules at the top of the list without this box checked it
would fall through after assigning it a category until it met another
rule it matched, then stop processing.  What am I doing wrong?

-Jim

If I remove the "stop processing more rules" option the category does
not get assigned. I can turn off the other rules and test again

-Jim

 

[jtpryan]

IIRC, the default rule at the bottom of the list is to remove all categories.

Did you disable that rule?

Wow, I can't believe that, how obvious. Thank you. Why would that
rule be there? And "recommended" no less.

-Jim

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It is recommended to leave that at the top so that you won't receive
categories assigned by somebody else and messes up your personal sorting
mechanisms and color coding.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I want to have some rules that will look at a message and assign a

It is recommended to leave that at the top so that you won't receive
categories assigned by somebody else and messes up your personal
sorting mechanisms and color coding.

Which makes you wonder why it doesn't tack itself to the top, since any rule
you create automatically goes to the top.

One PM not talking to another PM?