Logical OR in rule

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Weaver

I would like a rule that moves a message to a specific fold if it
comes from a specific address OR is sent to a specific address. It
seems that Outlook's rules are designed only to accomodate AND
conditions. In most cases I've written two rules and in most of those
cases the results are satisfactory, except that I can't get it to
'move' the outgoing messages to the specified folder; it makes a copy
of them instead.

Any help with this matter will be greatly appreciated.
 
Weaver said:
I would like a rule that moves a message to a specific fold if it
comes from a specific address OR is sent to a specific address. It
seems that Outlook's rules are designed only to accomodate AND
conditions. In most cases I've written two rules and in most of those
cases the results are satisfactory, except that I can't get it to
'move' the outgoing messages to the specified folder; it makes a copy
of them instead.

Any help with this matter will be greatly appreciated.
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With a rule, all conditions get AND'ed. If you want them OR'ed then
define a separate rule for each condition as rules get OR'ed in the
order they are listed. If you want to short-circuit the OR'ing, use the
stop clause; otherwise, if you don't any more rules exercised against
your message once one of the conditions triggers a rule (or set of them
that are OR'ed), use the stop clause. It could be that you did not
define the rules correctly. It could be that you didn't use the stop
clause and other rules are affecting the message.
 
Outlook version?

In general, you can use the "sent to people or distribution list" and add
multiple addresses to that rule, all of which are treated with a logical OR.
 
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