On 6/1/04 12:05 AM, "Brent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doh!!!!!!!!! > > There was a Rule higher up in the list that was corrupting the results. Both > your 3 criteria and my 2 criteria rules work.
Good to hear. > > If any > From is in Address book > Then change status to no junk mail. > > Now why even if the other two rules are moved above this in the Rules list > that "address book" still takes precedence? > > Now in both name rules, I have > > Then > change status junk mail > move message to junk folder. > > Do not apply other rules is checked but grayed out. Why? Because your list of actions contains 'move'. If you move a message to a folder, other rules can't operate on it since they can only operate on messages in the Inbox (where all incoming messages download to). Apparently the whole thing would get out of sync with itself if it tried. (In Entourage X and 2001 you also can't run more rules after running an AppleScript action, but in 2004 you can.) That's precisely why I said you had to run the other rule first. (If you delete a message you don't need anything more done to it anyway.) So you always have to put a "move" rule last in a group of rules dealing with overlapping sets of criteria. However you can add other actions in the same rule (that rule can still keep track of the message of moving it - only _other_ rules can't find it). So the trick is usually to devise non-overlapping sets of criteria for different rules such that one rule or the other will get all relevant messages and do everything it needs to. Because you can't combine "All" with "ANY" in on rule, that may mean a certain amount of duplication. That's OK. The only exception to "no rules after moving" is of course MLM actions - they can be followed by regular rules even if the MLM moves the message. I don't know how - maybe the MLM actually waits before moving. > The only way to get > it solid again is to limit the actions to one action. Again Why? No, you can have several actions in one rule and other rules will still work on the same message. But if one of those actions is to _move_ the message - no more rules will work. Put the other rules first. > > Not that it really matters other than while I am learning, I have several > status to give me a clue as to what Rule trapped it. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- 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/>
