How does Anti-Spam interact with Outlook rules?
Both Outlook rules and Anti-Spam compete with Outlook to receive notifications of new messages. Unfortunately, Outlook doesn’t guarantee a delivery order for these notifications, so sometimes Anti-Spam might get notified first and sometimes Outlook rules might be notified first. This means that sometimes an Outlook rule may move a message into another folder before Anti-Spam has a chance to look at it and determine whether or not it is spam. A related issue you may run into is that new mail notification may not appear to work when you receive mail that Outlook rules filtered into another folder. The reason for this is that in order to prevent Outlook from notifying you of new mail when you receive spam, Anti-Spam takes over new mail notification. It only does this notification when there is new mail in your Inbox when it runs. So if your Outlook rules runs first and moves a message into another folder, Anti-Spam won’t notice this new email and won’t notify you. As a workaround, it’s po
