Outlook Express Message Rules

Messages Rules can used to better organise your email messages. Rules are applied to incoming messages usually for organisational purposes.

Rules consist of a condition followed by an action if that condition is meet.

Example: The condition could be that message is from steve and the action could be to delete it.

The result would be that all messages from steve would be deleted.

The following lists the conditions and actions supported:

Rule conditions:

Where the From field contains people
Where the To field contains people
Where the cc field contains people
Where the To or cc field contains people
Where the Subject field contains specific words
Where the message body contains specific words
Where the message is marked as priority
Where the message is from a specified account.
Where the message size is more than size
Where the message has an attachment
Where the message is secure

Rule actions:

Move it to the specified folder
Copy it to the specified folder
Delete it
Forward it to people
Highlight it with Color
Flag it
Mark it as read
Mark the message as watched or ignored
Reply with Message
Stop processing more rules
Do not download it from the server
Delete it from server

If more than one condition is chosen then the condition can be combined as a logical AND or logical OR.

If the conditions use AND then all conditions must be meet for the action to be executed if the conditions use OR then any one of the conditions being meet results in the specified action.

Multiple message rules can be applied to a message. When this is the case you must be careful that the rules applied first do not interfere with the rules that would follow.

For example a message rule to delete all incoming messages would make any rules that came after it meaningless as the message would already have been deleted.

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Outlook Express Message Rules