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In Outlook Web Access (OWA), one can setup rules which are applied to all inbound mail, for automatically sorting those mail into specific folders. It seems to be easy to configure a rule which applies to mail which contains at least one word in its subject, given a list of words (OR-semantics). In fact, there seem to be even two possibilities to accomplish this: Either we can create multiple rules (one for each word from the list), or we can setup a single rule and use the list of words directly.

However, I cannot find how to setup a rule which applies to mail only if all words from a given list are present in the subject (AND-semantics). How can we implement AND-semantics for filter rules in OWA?

I stumbled over this thread which however is very old (from 2009). I bet there has been some improvement by now? 13 years have passed, have they added functionality to implement ADD-semantics, given that we even have two ways to implement OR-semantics?

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Do you want to create a rule that looks up certain words in the message body, and only if it finds all those words in the message, it will apply a certain action? If so, this link seems to give you some inspiration: https://www.msoutlook.info/question/220

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  • This seems like a workaround which is hard to maintain for complex rules with many words, which may change over time – theV0ID Jan 03 '23 at 14:48
  • Moreover, in OWA, there seems to be no option to create a new category (one can only choose from 6 pre-defined categories). – theV0ID Jan 03 '23 at 15:11