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I am automating my workflow, and I found this action to be performed once the conditions of a rule are met:

A screenshot of the "Do the following:" section of the Outlook rules dialog, with a dropdown with "Burst" selected, and an extended dropdown demonstrating that it relates to folders.

However, several Google searches failed me, and I can't find out what "Burst" does. I haven't tested it, either, because maybe it "bursts" my emails into oblivion? Maybe it "burst"-fires this rule repeatedly? For safety, I want to know what it does, so... what does "Burst" do?

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I've never seen this option so I was curious! I found this:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/273018

Burst Digests into Individual Messages - You can use this feature when you subscribe to daily message digests. This feature breaks the digest into separate and constituent messages. If you select this item, you can specify that the original digest message is deleted after it is burst.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_digest

An email digest is an email that is automatically generated by an electronic mailing list and which combines all exchanged emails during a time period (e.g. day, week, month, etc.) or when a volume limit is reached (e.g. every 10 or 100 messages) into one single message.

EDIT: Found the following too: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/mh/burdig.htm

When MH forwards message(s) with forw, or makes a digest with forw -digest, it uses a special format called bit stuffing. That format makes it easy for the recipient to extract the "encapsulated" messages, one by one. The MH burst command does this; it splits (bursts) the group into separate messages. Recent versions of burst also handle MIME-encoded digests (see the Section Forwarding in MIME Format, forw -mime).

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