'permanently delete it' without 'stop processing more rules'
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From: Dane on 3 Jun 2010 18:04 In the past week my Junk Email has increased to an amount that is driving me crazy. I am now setting up some rules to act on those emails that are going into my Junk E-Mail folder automatically (which is great) BUT, I then want my Outlook 2007 to permanently delete them without me having to manually do it. Every time I assign the check mark to 'permanently delete it' the 'stop processing more rules' automatically gets checked and I cannot uncheck it. Please give me a simple solution to accomplish what I want to do - which is to permanently delete these junk emails that I have setup in the rules menu. I now have approximately 40 junk emails with this rule as these emails just keep coming and coming and coming...
From: catherized on 3 Jun 2010 20:13 Dane wrote: > In the past week my Junk Email has increased to an amount that is > driving me > crazy. > I am now setting up some rules to act on those emails that are going > into my > Junk E-Mail folder automatically (which is great) BUT, I then want my > Outlook > 2007 to permanently delete them without me having to manually do it. > > Every time I assign the check mark to 'permanently delete it' the > 'stop > processing more rules' automatically gets checked and I cannot uncheck > it. > > Please give me a simple solution to accomplish what I want to do - > which is > to permanently delete these junk emails that I have setup in the rules > menu. > > I now have approximately 40 junk emails with this rule as these emails > just > keep coming and coming and coming... If you are permantely deleting, why would you want a later rule to run against the message? The action only stops other rules from looking at the message, it does not stop the rules from running on the next message. Rather than messing with rules, i use autoarchive to delete junk mail that is more than 2 days old and i run it daily. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.outlookforums.com/showthread.php?t=46285 http://www.outlookforums.com
From: VanguardLH on 3 Jun 2010 23:35 Dane wrote: > In the past week my Junk Email has increased to an amount that is driving me > crazy. > I am now setting up some rules to act on those emails that are going into my > Junk E-Mail folder automatically (which is great) BUT, I then want my Outlook > 2007 to permanently delete them without me having to manually do it. > > Every time I assign the check mark to 'permanently delete it' the 'stop > processing more rules' automatically gets checked and I cannot uncheck it. > > Please give me a simple solution to accomplish what I want to do - which is > to permanently delete these junk emails that I have setup in the rules menu. > > I now have approximately 40 junk emails with this rule as these emails just > keep coming and coming and coming... If you permenantly delete an item, why do you still want it around for some other rule to exercise on it? If you want another rule to get exercised on the same item then obviously you do not want that item permanently deleted. Most rules should end with a stop clause. If not, you are OR'ing together the rules and it is up to you to determine if that flow of data through the OR'ed rules is really what you want to happen. If you are not OR'ing together your rules then there will be side effects on which you did not plan. If you have some rules that you want to OR together (i.e., they don't have the stop clause) then perhaps you should change the ordering of your rules so the ones that permanently delete an item are at the top of the list. Again, it is up to you to determine the flow of data through your rules to make sure the effect is what you want.
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