Tim said:
Please tell me where I can find out about the check box in Outlook
rules labeled "stop processing more rules" and why can it not be
unchecked when the "permanently delete it" rule is checked?
Well, you can find out about it below:
The stop processing more rules action means, well, just that. When you look
at the list of rules, they are evaluated from the first rule in the list to
the last rule in the list. Lets say you have three rules and a message
comes in that would be effected by all three. If the second rule has the
'stop processing more rules' action, then the third rule will not fire.
Now, why does this happen when selecting the permanently delete this item
action?
Well, consider the following actions that you might do in life:
1) Fll out your tax forms.
2) Burn the tax forms.
3) Mail the tax forms to the IRS.
(well, ok, you probably wouldn't burn your forms, but..)
Now, that series of events would be impossible. You just burned the forms.
You can't then do something else to them.
Same thing with the permanent delete. Once it's deleted, you can't then go
and forward it to someone else, or move it to a file, or anything. If
there's a rule that you want to be fired, make sure any rule that you plan
on having a permanent delete action in is the last in the list.