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Outlook rules - if/and/or statements?
Hi again oleksiikrutilko,
please explain in details what exactly you are trying to achieve and I'll try to suggest something.
I'd like to have the ability to create a rule with OR for example:
move all emails with [Confluence] OR (confluence) in Subject to some folder.
Now I should create 2 separate rules with Subjects.
Another example, my company sends internal news emails time after time, so I'd like to move all these emails in some specific folder and mark as read. Again is it close to 5 Subjects == 5 rules.
Github notifications, I'd like to route them by projects, like important/not important, again each project == 1 rule.
Now I have ~20 rules, and this is not the end 🙂
If I understood correctly, if I add a few strings in a subject, it will be AND, so rule will work only if all these strings will be there
In fact there is OR:
That is not a solution. It allows you to do an "OR," but only for the same field. For example, you can specify emails that are From Bob OR Alice, where both conditions are From, but you can't specify things like this:
Emails From Bob OR To Alice
Emails From Bob OR To Bob
Emails that are From Bob OR contain "sales" in the Subject.
Hi rbratton65,
you said:
>That is not a solution. It allows you to do an "OR," but only for the same field.
What is not a solution?
- Hi Victor, or works on a specific condition, but if you want to specify more than one condition its always AND, e.g I want to say move messages from specific people(no proplem using or for several people) but then want to add another condition that says OR with specific words in subject. This does not seem possible without creating additional specific rules just for those keywords.
- You are correct, but IMHO to have 2 simple rules is better than having one comlpex rule.
- Thanks. I use the new UI desktop client, it doesn't have these options but has other similar ones. Also, I'd like to mention that the old UI has a different interface with rules, and it has "is" or "contains" for From/Subject/etc. So as a workaround I can switch to the old UI, make rules and switch back.
- What client do you mean? My screenshot shows Outlook for Windows.
I guess you are running Outlook for Mac 😉
