On or near 7/17/02 4:50 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 7/17/02 4:26 PM, "Rick Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What about my message indicates that I want to stop processing? That's >> precisely the problem I have: I can't continue processing after a move >> action. I want to first move the message, then I want the rest of the rules >> to have a crack at it. Very simple, but it can't be done (if you put a move >> action in a rule, the "Don't apply other rules" checkbox becomes disabled. > > Rules can only act on messages arriving in the Inbox - otherwise the whole > thing would get out of phase and stop working. There are many ways of > dealing with this
Paul, we should note that Bare Bones' Mailsmith has a very sophisticated second level of rules. You can define rules attached to a particular mailbox or folder that only operate when messages arrive in that folder. Their description says: Distributed Filters (tm) enable you to organize and associate filters with individual mailboxes * Each filter can trigger an unlimited number of actions * Filters can apply 'grep' and 'fuzzy' matching * Filters can change labels, message priority, move messages to other mailboxes, and more * Filter actions can incorporate OSA scripts (AppleScripts) So, it isn't unreasonable to ask for something similar for Entourage. The rules in Entourage are great, but they could be even better. > > Put all your rules that move messages lower in the Rules list than rules > that do other things: rules are applied top to bottom. Just drag them down > or use the Down button. > > You can add actions to the moving rules that do the same thing as other > rules - as long as you want the actions to all the messages affected by this > moving rule. Other actions can still take place on these messages - it's > just further filtering that is not available. > > Scripts can be set to run on these messages (instead of Move commands) which > both do the moving and do further filtering similar to your other rules > you'd like to run. Scripts can do anything. Anything? Sounds very inviting... For my first wish... ;-) But to expand on what I think you meant here, scripts triggered by a rule could, for example, sub-sort the messages into several folders. Say all the mail coming from your company domain, filtered into folders by keywords that appear in the subject. One rule triggered by the domain name, the script then checks the subject and performs triage on the messages. -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
