What is the difference between a “client-only” rule and a “server-only” rule created in Outlook?
Microsoft Exchange Server allows rules to be applied to your email messages even if you do not have Outlook running. These rules are “server-only” rules, they must be set to be applied to messages “when you receive them in the Inbox” on the server, and the rules must be able to be completed on the server. For example, a rule cannot be applied on the server if the action requires moving a message to a folder in a personal folder file. If a rule cannot be applied on the server, it is referred to as a “client-only” rule and the rule is applied when you start Outlook. By default, Outlook will try to run all the rules that you create on the server. Rules that cannot be run on the server have the words “client-only” added to the end of the name. If your list of rules contains rules that can be run on the server as well as those that cannot, the rules on the server are applied first, and then all of the other rules are applied. When you use the Rules Wizard it will inform you when you exit if
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