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Old 15 Apr 2005, 04:52 AM   #1
carverrn
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Order Values for Filter Processing

Here is a general guide for the order in which filters are processed:

-99 (Highest Priority)
-98
-97
:
:
-2 (Runbox-defined Block Sender Filter)
-1 (Runbox-defined Move Spam Filter)
0 (default Order value for filters if not specified)
:
:
X (1st physical entry of Order value X)
X (2nd physical entry of Order value X)
X (3rd physical entry of Order value X)
:
X (nth physical entry of Order value X)
:
:
997
998
999 (Lowest Priority)
1000 GMS Phone Notification
1001 Forward To Email *OR* Forward To GMS Phone (Notification not set) - doesn't appear to do both even if both selected
1002 Move To Inbox


The last three (1000-1002) are shown as if they are rules with these Order values because they seem to behave that way. I don't know if that's how they are really implemented. This is important to know because if you have a filter that moves a message to a folder, it will stop the filter processing for that message and it will never get to the GMS Phone Notification, the Forward To Email/GMSPhone or the Move To Inbox.

Editing an existing filter will not change it's "physical entry" position and therefore will not change it's priority in relation to other filters of the same Order value.
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