{"id":1825,"date":"2009-09-30T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1825-why-outlook-rules-copy-a-message-when-you-asked-it-to-be-moved.html"},"modified":"2009-09-30T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:06:13","slug":"why-outlook-rules-copy-a-message-when-you-asked-it-to-be-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1825-why-outlook-rules-copy-a-message-when-you-asked-it-to-be-moved.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Outlook rules copy a message when you asked for it to be moved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wished computers had a \u201cdo what I mean\u201d button?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a case in point. I use Outlook\/Exchange rules to sort email into subfolders. I set up a new rule, and was annoyed to find that while messages were correctly being moved into the selected folder, they were not being deleted from the source folder. In other words, I\u2019d asked for move but I was getting copy.<\/p>\n

Bug in Outlook\/Exchange rules? I don\u2019t entirely trust them; but on this occasion it was my fault. The problem: these messages also matched another rule, which moved them to a different subfolder \u2013 the one, in fact, that I was treating as the \u201csource folder\u201d. When confronted with two rules that both move a message, Exchange makes a copy. Whether that is the right behaviour is arguable, but it is not a bug.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the solution. In the Actions for the rule, also check the option to \u201cStop processing more rules\u201d. <\/p>\n

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Problem solved.<\/p>\n

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Ever wished computers had a \u201cdo what I mean\u201d button? Here\u2019s a case in point. I use Outlook\/Exchange rules to sort email into subfolders. I set up a new rule, and was annoyed to find that while messages were correctly being moved into the selected folder, they were not being deleted from the source folder. … Continue reading Why Outlook rules copy a message when you asked for it to be moved<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32,55,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-exchange","category-microsoft","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}