Mail Rules -- seemingly can't combine moving a message with other actions

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Mail Rules -- seemingly can't combine moving a message with other actions

I'm pretty frustrated with Rules in Mail. In particular, it seems impossible to set up a rule that does things with a message *and* moves it to another folder.

It seems like the action to move the message to another folder always winds up being the first action, and then none of the other actions are done, even simple things like changing the color of the message.

If I remove the "move" action then everything else works just fine.

It's almost as if it moves the message and then loses track of where it went.

Thanks!

macOS X Mojave, 10.14.6

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jan 2, 2020 5:02 PM

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fyip

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Jan 3, 2020 3:10 PM in response to tboegel

Could it be this ?

If you have multiple rules, they’re applied in the order in which they appear in the list of rules; drag a rule up or down to change the order.

Mail stops applying rules to a message when it encounters the Stop Evaluating Rules action, or when a message is transferred to another mailbox by rules used on a mail server or computer or device synced to your computer.

The above is from here...Use rules to manage emails you receive in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

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