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kevjackson
Dec 18, 2019Brass Contributor
Outlook rules - if/and/or statements?
Hi, isn't it about time outlook upgraded their rules so that you didn't have to create separate rules for incoming and out going messages? Having to create 2 rules every time i want an email to and...
Victor_Ivanidze
Dec 02, 2021Bronze Contributor
You are correct, but IMHO to have 2 simple rules is better than having one comlpex rule.
Wizard_TechLab
Oct 17, 2022Copper Contributor
Thanks for your humble opinion. Microsoft always needs extra apologies for their failures.
But 2 (or 3 or more) simple rules are ridiculous when 1 slightly more complex rule would serve well.
In my situation where OR would be immensely helpful, I need email received from any of email accounts aATdomain or bATdomain or cATdomain or dATdomain to be moved to the MyCompyootr folder. How would four (count 'em 4) separate rules be better than one (1) that's only an RCH more complex than a trivially simple rule? I have multiples of this situation. And if one talks about keywords, some of them are very common terms; eg. computer, hardware, or software, all of which show up in many headers that do not arrive from the intended accounts. Just my $0.02.
- JoseDelaraJan 24, 2023Copper Contributor
It's amazing to me that mail rules have been around for a very long time, since maybe outlook 2003, but you cannot create an OR statement, only and AND statement when creating conditions for a rule. This seems like it would be very basic logic to code. Very tedious to have to create multiple rules to satisfy OR conditions.