About Rules (Overview)

A rule specifies one or more conditions and one or more actions to apply when the conditions are met.  You can create as many rules as you wish. Rules are created and edited in the Main Rules Dialog .
The best way to learn what rules can do is to review the Rules Editor Conditions and Actions Tabs.

Applying Rules
Rules can be applied in two ways:

·       Automatically - If you "enable" a rule for incoming articles, the rule evaluates and acts on all incoming articles as they arrive.

·       Manually - You can also apply a rule manually, either to a newsgroup, or to selected articles at any time. Use the "Apply a Rule Manually" command and dialog or the Rule Bar to do so. See the Manually Apply Rules topic for more information.

Notes:

·      Rule order has meaning, which means rules are applied in the order they are listed in the main rules dialog.

·      Scoring is applied internally before rules are processed (except for scores in the article Body, if storing headers only).

Rule Statistics
View - Other Windows - Rule Statistics
You can track how many times your rules evaluate articles and fire with the Rule Statistics.