Comments on: Outlook: Rules Create Multiple Duplicate Message

By: Mahmoud

Mahmoud — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:36:17 +0000

Thanks a lot for your help!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:57:00 +0000

I got the same problem and it was due to overlapping rules. The best solution is to go over your rules and delete duplicates or near duplicates. It took me 2 good hours to do it, but now the dupes are gone.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:36:00 +0000

Thanks for this post. I was clueless on what is going on. I think this should be default on any rules.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:25:00 +0000

I’m now trying the “stop processing more rules” trick on sorting rules and also putting them at the end of the list. Will see whether that fixes my problem. Anyway, thanks everyone for the tips.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:59:00 +0000

Yes, it’s a mess, an ugly TRILLION-$$$$ mess. At my main work machine I use Thunderbird, rules work mostly fine. At our main client I’ve also got an e-mail account with ton of incoming technical spam (such-or-such operation succeeded – 1 to 24 times a day for many operations) and they use GRMBL Outlook which isn’t able to provide a sensible, reliable interface to sort them out ! (Got the same duplicates problem.) With all the $$$$$ bucks M$ likely put into the program, you wonder why they can’t make things work ? And this even at the simplest level: resizable dialogs, anyone ? Not Micro$$$$oft !!! Maybe in their recommendation guidelines, but not in the Rule system of $$$$$$ Outlook !

By: Vivek_p_kapa

Vivek_p_kapa — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:45:00 +0000

Thank you soo muchhhhhh……

By: Vivek_p_kapadia

Vivek_p_kapadia — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:44:00 +0000

thn you soo much

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:07:00 +0000

When I click Apply in the Rules and Alerts dialog box, I get a message saying that there’s the Stop Processing More Rules will stop other rules from running and asking if I’m sure I want to do this. I want all the rules to run, so I don’t understand why you would want this setting. Also, Outlook 2010 is adding it in by itself when I click Apply; it’s not in the rule itself.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:11:00 +0000

Thanks a lot for suggesting.

By: Cheap Bastard

Cheap Bastard — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:07:00 +0000

This is not a reliable work around. It only works in *some* situations, and actually makes the problem uglier because it then becomes difficult to see why rules are not being executed as expected.

I have a suspicion that some rules are process on the exchange server, and some rules are processed locally. Somewhere along the line, a hand-off is made, and I don’t believe the message is ever handed back to the server to process server based rules. It’s a real mess regardless of what’s happening. “Stop processing more rules” worsens things, because sometimes messages take the wrong path, and other times they are duplicated anyway because of parallel server/local processing.

Outlook users only have an illusion that they have control over the processing of their mail. Advanced users should switch to linux, and use *procmail*, the holy grail of mail processing.