Conflicting Outlook Express rules?
 

In outlook express I have several defined rules for incoming mail.
I have a "bad words" list that routes any email containing a word in that list to the trash.
I have a rule routing any email from a specific account into a folder.
I have a rule routing mail from specific people into specific folders.

Now the rule routing mail into a specific folder based on which account it's from works fine, but the bad words rule doesn't seem to be applied to any mail that follows the routing folder rule.
If I turn off the routing rules, leaving only the bad words rule on, then the bad words rule is effectivly applied to any and all incoming mail, deleting most of my spam.

Does anyone know how to get mutipule rules working together in Outlook Express?

First, make sure you have the bad words rule first.

Second, on the bad words rule, make sure you have the selection for "Stop processing more rules" selected. If you don't, outlook will move the item to the deleted folder then turn around and process the next rule and move it to your specific folder.

Alternately, you could make the bad words rule the last rule instead, but this would end up taking more processor power as it would move the message twice instead of only once.