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Newer versions of Outlook present a "Focused" view of your inbox, that tries to sort emails that require your attention (e.g. from people you frequently correspond with) into a "Focused" inbox and emails that aren't important (e.g. email from mailing lists) in an inbox labeled "Other".

On the whole, it does an okay job.

However, it's far from perfect: Sometimes important emails end up in my "Other" inbox, while some unimportant emails end up in my "Focused" inbox. Is there a way to configure Outlook to change what it categorizes at "Focused" and "Other"?

Giacomo1968
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petehern
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If you need to fine-tune your Focused Inbox, Move to Focused and Move to Other options are available to do that.

You can choose Move to Other/Focused if you want only the selected message moved. Choose Always Move to Other/focused if you want all future messages from the sender to be delivered to the Other/Focused tab.

See Microsoft's official documentation to know more details:

Giacomo1968
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Steve Fan
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As far as I have researched, you cannot apply rules in advance, but only move a message from a sender, and then apply a very simple rule from that exact sender. You cannot automatically set a rule for all the emails from @yahoo.com, for example.

I'd be happy to find out that I was wrong...

NoamG
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