Outlook Mac - strange moving of emails

[Michael_Tsai]

@yelkenli

I have checked each rule like you suggested. They work as intended. And each rule has checked ‘Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these conditions’.
I don’t think this is the issue though, because all of the rules have this checked, and therefore the second and later rules should not execute, no matter the order (unless there is some resetting of the messages after the script handles them.

If the rules are correct and Outlook is working properly, the first matching rule should move the message and stop the processing. So the message should never go to InboxSpamSieve and the script should never see it.

My suggestion would be to test this by temporarily removing SpamSieve from the equation. You can do this by quitting the Outlook Filter Mailboxes app. Then see where the messages end up, and you’ll be able to see what the Outlook rules did.

@yelkenli

And-Somehow Spamsieve rule knows not to reprocess rules when the script moves the good email back to the Inbox - maybe at that time the other rules might process? I am not sure how this works and wonder if this is related to the issue.

Outlook should know that the messages are not new, and so it won’t re-apply the rules. But this should be irrelevant because the messages in question should never be seen by the SpamSieve rule, due to the earlier rule matching them first.

@yelkenli

The other rules do not have a requirement for the email to be of the folder Inbox, which is the only condition of the Spamsieve rule.

Right.

@yelkenli

My understanding is that when a message is downloaded from the server into the Outlook Inbox, the Outlook rule moves the messages out of the Inbox folder and into the InboxSpamSieve folder - this is what the rule states.
Then the script tests the InboxSpamSieve contents and moves ‘not-spam’ back to the inbox, and spam to the junk folder.

Right.

@yelkenli

Also, the Inbox folder is synced with the server (it is not the Inbox that is on my hard-drive - (I can delete or move an email out of the Inbox folder using Outlook, and that move will be reflected in the server when using an internet browser of phone mail app to look at emails. The other folders are also folders on the server. I am not sure if that is causing some problem.

That sounds normal to me.