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Old June 3rd, 2010, 11:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Dane
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Default 'permanently delete it' without 'stop processing more rules'

In the past week my Junk Email has increased to an amount that is driving me
crazy.
I am now setting up some rules to act on those emails that are going into my
Junk E-Mail folder automatically (which is great) BUT, I then want my Outlook
2007 to permanently delete them without me having to manually do it.

Every time I assign the check mark to 'permanently delete it' the 'stop
processing more rules' automatically gets checked and I cannot uncheck it.

Please give me a simple solution to accomplish what I want to do - which is
to permanently delete these junk emails that I have setup in the rules menu.

I now have approximately 40 junk emails with this rule as these emails just
keep coming and coming and coming...
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Old June 4th, 2010, 04:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default 'permanently delete it' without 'stop processing more rules'

Dane wrote:

In the past week my Junk Email has increased to an amount that is driving me
crazy.
I am now setting up some rules to act on those emails that are going into my
Junk E-Mail folder automatically (which is great) BUT, I then want my Outlook
2007 to permanently delete them without me having to manually do it.

Every time I assign the check mark to 'permanently delete it' the 'stop
processing more rules' automatically gets checked and I cannot uncheck it.

Please give me a simple solution to accomplish what I want to do - which is
to permanently delete these junk emails that I have setup in the rules menu.

I now have approximately 40 junk emails with this rule as these emails just
keep coming and coming and coming...


If you permenantly delete an item, why do you still want it around for
some other rule to exercise on it? If you want another rule to get
exercised on the same item then obviously you do not want that item
permanently deleted.

Most rules should end with a stop clause. If not, you are OR'ing
together the rules and it is up to you to determine if that flow of data
through the OR'ed rules is really what you want to happen. If you are
not OR'ing together your rules then there will be side effects on which
you did not plan.

If you have some rules that you want to OR together (i.e., they don't
have the stop clause) then perhaps you should change the ordering of
your rules so the ones that permanently delete an item are at the top of
the list. Again, it is up to you to determine the flow of data through
your rules to make sure the effect is what you want.
 




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