Message Rules are getting added but not applied

[Shaan]

I have recently switched to Outlook 2007 from Windows-Mail (WM). One of my
beefs is, adding/creating message rules seems much more complicated in
Outlook than in WM. For example, I don't understand things like "Stop
processing more rules" whose check-box gets automatically checked when I
check the "Permanently delete it" check-box. But the BIG problem I'm having
right now is that I'm creating rules okay (and can see they've been added
when I list them via Message Rules), but they're not getting applied some if
not all of the time - emails are still coming through that I've instructed
Outlook to permanently delete. Does anybody know why?

 

[LadderMan]

The message rules work in the order they are listed in that window. If you
don't have the "stop processing more rules" checked on that particular rule ,
it will check all the rules until it finds a rule that is checked with "stop
processing more rules" or it reaches the last rule.

LadderMan

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

I have recently switched to Outlook 2007 from Windows-Mail (WM). One of my
beefs is, adding/creating message rules seems much more complicated in
Outlook than in WM. For example, I don't understand things like "Stop
processing more rules" whose check-box gets automatically checked when I
check the "Permanently delete it" check-box. But the BIG problem I'm having
right now is that I'm creating rules okay (and can see they've been added
when I list them via Message Rules), but they're not getting applied some if
not all of the time - emails are still coming through that I've instructed
Outlook to permanently delete. Does anybody know why?

Without some detail as to what your rules are supposed to do, what their
current definitions are, and examples of messages that sem to fail, no one can
help you.

By the way, Windows Mail has the "stop processing more rules" action as well.