Questions tagged [rules]

Rules specify automatic actions to be performed when a new item is created. For example when a new email arrives in an inbox in an email program such as Microsoft Outlook. Rules can also be used for similar purposes in other types of program.

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Outlook Rules: Specific Domain not working

I am attempting to create a rule in the Outlook 365 App (Not OWA) to move all internal company emails from the inbox to an internal folder. I have attempted the rules settings as follows: Apply this ...
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Outlook rule move all mails to another e-mail account

Is there a way to move all e-mails to another e-mail account (both accounts are added in Outlook 2016) older than a specifik date? Thanks!
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Sieve rule for catch-all email setup: Filter into folders based on alias

I'm running a catch-all email setup with my own domain (mydomain.tld). My hoster offers me to create arbitrary Sieve mail filter rules. I would like to create a rule that moves all incoming mail to a ...
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Outlook rule to mark all messages in folder as read

We have an external system that sends emails if a build has failed, and another email if the build has been fixed. I use an email rule in Outlook 365 to move the emails from this system to a subfolder....
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Drools Business Central Workbench - 7.16.0.Final - cannot use

I followed this tutorial: http://www.mastertheboss.com/jboss-jbpm/drools/getting-started-with-business-central-workbench Was able to install WildFly 14 WAR version and complete it but when trying to ...
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Outlook Rule for not being in a mail group

Can I create an outlook rule to filter mail if it is sent directly to my email address (and any others) as opposed to being sent to a mail group that I belong to?
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Is it possible in Asana to create rules that automatically shift tasks into a section?

The title says it all. I work in an Asana project which gets flooded with tasks which are automatically created. It would help if I could automatically shift some tasks into a section based on their ...
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Microsoft Outlook 365 rule with FROM logic capturing emails based on member/person of public group

There are lots of ways a "public group" (email group) can be created. Microsoft Outlook 365 is routing emails to the folder in a rule (ie: Archive" in this example), when any "people" in a "public ...
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Set read mail as unread if they don't have category assigned

Is there anyway to make Outlook set the read email that doesn't have any categories assigned to them back to unread?
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Outlook limits how many email rules I can have. How can I get around this?

I am using Microsoft Outlook 2010. I received a several hundred automated emails a day and rely on Outlook rules to help me organize them and stay sane. I have run into a problem where Outlook will ...
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Outlook rule - Delete messages if the recipient isn't member of a certain group

Is it possible in Outlook 365 ProPlus to create a rule so that an email from a certain recipient (an automatic mailer for instance) gets deleted from your inbox if it is not sent to someone who is a ...
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Conditional formatting in Excel: Referencing entire table column [duplicate]

In Excel I am trying to apply conditional formatting to an entire table column (it should be automatically applied, when new rows are added into the table) However, the conditional formatting rules ...
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Creating specific rule in Outlook

We recently changed our company name so our email domain has changed. How do I set a rule to send a reply (Template message) to only people using my old email address? I don't want them to get it if ...
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Outlook rule issue

I have created a rule in Outlook for any email where the subject contains "17-4" to move to folder 17-4. The problem I'm facing is that any email where 17-4 appears in the subject line, it gets moved ...
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Prevent Calendar/Appointment Actions from triggering Auto Reply

We have an email account that we only use to send out notices and appointments from, we don't want people sending messages to that account so we have an out of office auto reply set up on the account. ...
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Mail rule is not applied to certain messages

We are running an Exchange 2013 / Outlook 2016 (Office 365) environment. Some messages, system generated notifications, are not processed correctly by our mail rules. The rules are server-side rules ...
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No matching rule when downloading

When I try to download project maelstrom from BitTorrent, it comes up with an error: no matching rule. I have tried to restart my browser and also restart my computer. What more can I do? I am using ...
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Filter on specific subject but only unique / first instance

I have an Outlook rule that is triggered by any incoming emails with the word "crisis" in the subject. The problem is that it is triggered by any corresponding replies in our ticketing system (...
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Outlook 2013 rules- create a rule according to a text inside parentheses in the subject

I would like to create a rule which moves to another folder all the messages I recieve whom subjects starts with a certain string inside parentheses. For example: Subject : "[bird] this is important" ...
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Outlook 2010 Delay Sending Rule

I'm trying to figure out if I'm able to set up two rules for delaying the sending of messages from Outlook. We have one set up for some of our users that delays the sending by 2 minutes, if the mail ...
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Flag email that you already replied to

I would like to highlights email in my inbox that I have read and already replied to. Is there a way to use rules for this? Thanks so much! Vince
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Outlook redirect rule ignoring exceptions

I've created an out rule as follows: Apply rule after message arrives Sent to 'My address' redirect to 'Redirect Address' and move it to 'new folder' except if from 'specific ...
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Automatically delete older duplicate emails in Outlook

Say I receive a bunch of status updates about remote servers in my mailbox, several dozen emails every day. How do I set up a rule that deletes the oldest IDENTICAL (header and body) email from my ...
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How to automatically move mail into appropriate folders - Outlook for Mac 2011

Is there anyway to have emails automatically placed into folders where the original email resides? Situation: I sort my emails into various folders based on clients. However, when a new email comes ...
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Outlook 2007: Categorize incoming mails by sender

Is there a simple way to assign email senders into categories so that all mails are grouped in the same way? For example I want all mails from my friends go into the "Friends" group, all Mails from ...
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Outlook Rules: Exact Subject Line Match

I'm trying to set up a rule in Outlook that will seek emails that contain an exact match in the subject line. For example, I would want this rule to apply only to emails with a subject line of "Hi ...
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How can i automate a rule that runs to 'run all rules' on inbox, after an imap move

How can i make a rule that runs all rules on inbox automatically preferably, or at least manually, after a bunch of new messages from another account were just pushed to it? I'll even do a batch into ...
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Rule for changing a word to a set color in Microsoft Word

Is it possible to set a rule up so a certain word, such as elephant always gets highlighted in a certain color in Microsoft Word? To put it into context elephant is a business name (hypothetical), I ...
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Exchange 2016 Server rule to handle misspelled email address

We have installed Exchange Server 2016. I would like to make a rule to retranslate all emails that were send with incorrect name but with correct domain name. Sometimes people make mistakes and send ...
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How to avoid replying to a mail when I'm in blind copy

I'm working with Microsoft Outlook 2016, and I just received a mail where I've been put in blind copy. This is quite dangerous because the people in the To and CC list should not be able to contact me,...
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Delete the email after it is moved to the folder (Outlook rule)

I have a rule that moves emails if it comes from a specific person. For instance, if an email arrives from [email protected] it moves the email to "Rick" folder. Now, Rick also sends me some routine ...
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Outlook rule for emails with recipients only in the BCC field

An outlook rule for incoming emails with the condition: "If the email recipients are not shown in the To nor in the CC field" Or "If the only field with recipients is the BCC field."
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Can I configure auto-sorting rules in Outlook 2007/2010?

I want to set up an Outlook rule that automatically sorts mail into an appropriate folder based on the contents of the subject line: So I get emails with case numbers (CSSxxxxxx) in the subject line. ...
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Force Outlook 2003 to run a server side rule on the client

I have the following rule in Outlook which moves all emails involving meetings into a different folder within the Inbox. Apply this rule after the message arrives uses the 'Tentative Meeting Response'...
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Is it possible to create an Outlook rule to send all messages to junk if a certain header is missing?

We have a spam filter that adds a header that indicates that the message has gone through the filter. In the Outlook client, is it possible to create a rule that sends all email to the junk folder if ...
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Outlook rules with both pop and exchange accounts on multiple computers don't work

Have an issue with Outlook rules when I have both an exchange account and pop account on the same computer. The exchange rules work fine all the time, this is about pop rules. Exchange automatically ...
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Rule for emails that are replies to emails I sent (MS Outlook)

I would like to make an alert that triggers when someone replies to an email I sent. Obviously, I can get most replies just searching for titles starting with "RE:". It would also miss ...
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When attempting to select an Outlook rule to run, no rules appear

I'm trying to select a rule to run in Outlook 2013. From the ribbon, I select "Rules", then click the "Run Rules Now..." button under the "E-mail Rules" tab and no rules ...
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Outlook marks sent emails as not read when applying a move rule

I have a customer with multiple imap and pop email accounts but he wants to have all the sent messages collected in a single folder. So I decided to deactivate the "save sent emails" in ...
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How do I set up an exception to an Exchange mail flow rule for "trusted" senders?

I've recently set up a new mail flow rule in our Exchange (365) admin center to prepend a "warning" banner to the body of e-mail messages received from external senders. I've defined it like ...
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OWA Rule for Alias Account

I get a ton of marketing emails sent to my work email, so I created an alias account with the goal of filtering all email sent to the primary account to some random folder, and all email to the alias ...
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Email rule applied to a shared mailbox

Hope I will manage to explain this clearly :) So, basically I created a rule on a shared mailbox to redirect all emails that are received to another shared mailbox. If I understood correctly, the ...
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copy an outlook appointment and send it to an other mail

Problem is, I don't have a work phone. But I would like to know when and where my appointments are on my private phone. I need a rule that does the following: - find all Outlook appointments - copy ...
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Outlook rules for routing all emails sent by people not in a whitelist

I have the need to have all emails that do not come from my company's domain route into a certain folder in Outlook. The purpose is to give me a higher state of alert that an email was not sent ...
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Is it possible to hide an expected error message in Excel?

I have created a formula that relies on data input (event attendee numbers) to provide a result. However, until we input our data (number of attendees) in column A, the column where the answer would ...
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Outlook 2016 Rule

would like some help here. There is a email forwarding rule to this email address ([email protected]) to my main inbox. For example, if John sends an email to [email protected], it will forwarded to me....
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How to get a reply from a subdirectory back into the same subdirectory

I am working with MS Outlook 2016. I am subscribed to a mailing list, and I have created a rule, moving every mail towards that mailing list to a specific directory. I regularly receive e-mails, ...
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Can we turn off firewall rules for IPv6 on Windows Server 2012 R2?

By default (fresh installation) of Windows Server 2012 R2, I saw that there are several windows firewall rules which contains ICMPv6-In and ICMPv6-Out. Is it ok for us to turn off these firewall ...
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Why udev rules stop working after adding ATTRS{serial}?

I was trying to solve my problem looking at other threads such as Why My USB port fixing udev rules are not working and udev rules doesn't work with small number among other several posts ...
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Outlook rule for a specific period date

In my Outlook 2013, I am trying to manage my emails by creating sub-folders in my inbox. What I want to do is to divide my emails in four sub folders named as follow : (First Quarter, Second Quarter,...
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