Another Update:

So, I confirmed: if I turn off the contacts based rule, the remain rule
works fine. The contacts rule appears to time out executing of further
rules. Perhaps I could reverse the rule - move everything unless they're in
the contacts, then move what left? I'll have to see if that has the same
problem.


"Dab" wrote in message
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Just an update on the problem.

One of my rules, the second to last, is looking to see if the sender is in
the Outlook Contacts folder and if they are, move the email to the
designated folder. There are over 1000 contacts in the folder (and
growing); could it be that executing of this contacts based rule is taking
so long that the next rule, the last one, never get's executed?


"Dab" wrote in message
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Hi:

I'm a pretty advanced Outlook user but I just can't figure this out and
I've been trying for years!

I created some rules that check for a particular condition and if the
condition is met, the email is moved to a particular folder.

The last rule in the stack moves the remaining messages to a 'default'
folder. All of the destination folders are in the root folders of the
account.

Here's the weird part: I've discovered, after may years, that rules that
include moves to folders don't work if the 'stop processing more rules'
is not included in the rule. If I don't include the 'stop processing
more rules' in the rules, none of them work except the last one which
moves everything into the default folder (note that the last rule will
work whether the 'stop processing more rules' is included or not). If I
put the 'stop processing more rules' in the rules, they all work, except
for the last one that is supposed to move what's left over to the default
folder - it doesn't work whether the 'stop processing more rules' is
included or not.

Any suggestions on why this is happening?


Outlook 2003 connected to an Exchange 2003 server.