How to set a rule for targetting important or priority messages in Outlook?

Question

Hi,

In Outlook, we have two kind of Inbox: 'Important/priority messages' and 'Others' (in french, it is called Prioritaire and Autre, I'm not sure I use the most accurate english translation).

Is there any way to add a conditional statement in order to restrict only 'Priority emails' in an Outlook rule? So my redirection will ignore 'Others'-categorized emails (which are usually auto-sent emails).

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards,

Answer 1

Hi @Sackey ,

Welcome to our forum!

According to your description, i understand the "'Important/priority messages' and 'Others' (in french, it is called Prioritaire and Autre" you mentioned is Focused Inbox for Outlook and you want to create a rule only for emails in Focused tab. I'm afraid that it's not available in Outlook to create rules only for emails in Focused tab.

As i know, we can only use inbox rules to automatically perform specific actions on email that arrives in your Inbox. But both Focused and Other tab are in Inbox, so we cannot isolate them or add condition only about Focused tab in a rule.

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