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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
Jun 09, 2021Bronze Contributor
Hi oleksiikrutilko,
1) why do you compare "mail servers from 90th" with email client?
2) your statement
Also, you can't use something like "do something with emails from addresses *@some.com", only specify the particular address.
is wrong. Did you ever see "with specific words in the sender's address" condition?
oleksiikrutilko
Jun 09, 2021Copper Contributor
Hi. Thanks for the fast answer.
1. I assume that rules should be applied on the server side. If no, why does the desctop client load rules ~3-5 sec? If I'm wrong, client and server have different rules, can I create rules on server side with more advanced conditions?
2. I agree, there is such condition "Keywords -> Sender Address Includes", I've missed this because I tried to find it under "From" field.
1. I assume that rules should be applied on the server side. If no, why does the desctop client load rules ~3-5 sec? If I'm wrong, client and server have different rules, can I create rules on server side with more advanced conditions?
2. I agree, there is such condition "Keywords -> Sender Address Includes", I've missed this because I tried to find it under "From" field.
- Victor_IvanidzeJun 09, 2021Bronze Contributor
Hi again oleksiikrutilko,
please explain in details what exactly you are trying to achieve and I'll try to suggest something.
- NathanaelEpicMar 07, 2023Copper Contributor
Here's what I would like to do:
I would like to change this "and" to an "or" because creating 5 different rules to exclude 5 categories is inefficient when an "or" would be so much better.
- amiranda72Jul 20, 2023Copper Contributor
NathanaelEpic What about changing the OR to AND with recipients?
If you have two accounts, you may want to create a rule for each, in order to store the emails addressed to each of them in a specific folder.
But then, if a single email is addressed to both, you'll get a double copy of it in one of these folder, and no copy of it in the other one.
But if you try creating another rule stating what should happen if an email has both the addresses as recipients,You only get a rule with the or statement:
How can I set a rule condition based on an email sent to both my email addresses, in order to have a single copy of them stored in each account's specific folder?
- oleksiikrutilkoJun 09, 2021Copper Contributor
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
- Victor_IvanidzeJun 09, 2021Bronze Contributor
In fact there is OR: