Rules are processed in the order they are listed in the Rules Wizard and you can rearrange the rules to better control which rules process which messages.
Add a Stop Processing action to each rule to prevent subsequent rules from processing messages which are processed by a rule. If you want more than one rule to process messages, don’t add the stop processing action to earlier rules or put that rule at the top of your Rules list.
If you have a lot of rules, you’ll improve the efficiency of Rules Wizard if you put the most active rules at the top of the list and use the Stop Processing action in most of your rules.
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Is there a way to permanently remove the default “Stop Processing More Rules”. It’s very irritating that we have to remove it on every rule. Is there a way to program rules like When I have an Email address that I always want to create a folder and have every email with that email moved into it?
Stop processing: no, you can’t remove it. You should only remove it when you want a message processed by 2 or more rules, if the conditions are met. It tells the rules engine to stop processing the message against additional rules if it meets the condition of that rule, it does not stop rules from pocessing additonal messages.
for example, you have a rule to move mail from bob and a second rule to move mail with the subject “Hello!”. If bob sends you a message with the subject Hello!, both rules will apply (potentially resulting in duplcate messages). If you use stop precessing, after the first rule moves the message, outlook moves on to the next message instead of checking it against more rules.
On creating folders: no, not within outlook’s rules engine. There are addins that can do this so it is possible, if you have programming skils.