Your Outlook rules run on the server, filing and forwarding mail whether or not anything is open. Rulebook reads and writes those same rules from your phone. It runs no filtering of its own, so nothing stops when you close it.
- Read what's actually running Every rule in the order it runs, in plain words, with folder names instead of opaque identifiers.
- Find the broken ones Outlook reports a rule as healthy even when it files into a folder that no longer exists. Rulebook checks for that itself.
- Write new rules Conditions, exceptions and actions, offering only what Outlook can actually do.
- Reorder and switch off Order decides which rule wins. Drag to change it, or turn a rule off without deleting it.
Free to look, Pro to change.
- Free Viewing your rules: every rule, in order, with the off and broken ones marked.
- Rulebook Pro Reordering, enabling or disabling, editing, creating, duplicating and deleting rules.
Sign-in goes through Microsoft's own page. Rulebook never sees your password, and the access it gets can be revoked at any time from your account settings.
- MailboxSettings.ReadWrite Read and write the rules themselves. This is the app.
- Mail.ReadBasic List your folders, so a rule can file mail into one you already have.
- offline_access Stay signed in without asking again every time.
Mail.ReadBasic is broader than this app wants: it also grants the
sender, recipients and subject of your messages. The precise permission for
reading folders alone, MailboxFolder.Read, exists only for work
and school accounts, so an app that also serves personal Microsoft accounts
cannot request it. That trade is spelled out here rather than buried.
Rulebook does not read message bodies, does not send mail, and stores no mail of its own. Privacy policy