Outlook Rule Confusion?

[Guest]

I wanted a rule that would take messages identified by spam assassin, mark it
as read, move it to a folder, not make any arrival notifications (no envelope
in the system tray and no sound effects), and then quit.

Here is my rule detail:
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with X-Spam-Status: Yes in the message header [ID's it as spam assassin
tagged]
clear the Message Flag
and move to the Junk E-mail folder
and mark it as read

I get the message moved to the right folder and marked as read. I still get
the envelope in the system tray and the mail arrival sound effect.

What do I need to do to fix my rule?

Thanks,

Dave
and stop processing more rules

 

[Vanguard]

I wanted a rule that would take messages identified by spam assassin, mark
it
as read, move it to a folder, not make any arrival notifications (no
envelope
in the system tray and no sound effects), and then quit.

Here is my rule detail:
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with X-Spam-Status: Yes in the message header [ID's it as spam assassin
tagged]
clear the Message Flag
and move to the Junk E-mail folder
and mark it as read

I get the message moved to the right folder and marked as read. I still
get
the envelope in the system tray and the mail arrival sound effect.

What do I need to do to fix my rule?

You cannot fix the rule. The alert is triggered when the new mail arrives
in your Inbox. THEN your rule gets triggered to get exercised against the
new mail but by then it is too late since the new-mail alert already
happened. Any new mails that go into your Inbox will trigger the alert.
Rules only work automatically on items in the Inbox, but those items have to
get their first before any rule can be exercised against them.