About SentRules
Built by one person who got tired of watching Microsoft say no.
I'm John Johnson. SentRules is made by my company, Revive Drones LLC — a one-person operation, which I'd rather tell you up front than have you discover and wonder why I hid it.
For over a year I read the threads. Microsoft Q&A questions with seventy, eighty, a hundred people asking for the same removed setting — "Apply rule on messages I send." Reddit posts from people who rolled back to classic Outlook just to keep filing their sent mail. Accountants inverting their whole mailbox as a workaround. Ten-year-old BCC-yourself rules that vanished in an upgrade. And in thread after thread, the same official answer: rules apply to received mail only, no date for the rest.
Nobody was building the fix, so I did. SentRules restores rules for the mail you send: you keep Outlook's normal Send button, and the sent copy files itself into the folders you already keep — because the product reads your filing system instead of imposing one.
The promises, in writing
SentRules never sends mail as you — the Microsoft permission screen you approve doesn't even ask for it. It never guesses: when it isn't sure where something goes, the copy stays safely in Sent Items and it tells you why. It never creates folders or rules on its own — every rule that exists is one you said yes to. And it works on plain personal outlook.com accounts as well as Microsoft 365, because the people in those threads weren't all corporations.
Built in the open, steered by the people who asked
The public threads that asked for this product are the roadmap. When something a thread requested ships, I go back to that thread and say so. If SentRules files something you didn't expect — or misses something it should have caught — tell me and I will fix it: a reproducible bug is worth three months of free service, six if it's serious. I apply the credit by hand and email you when it lands. That deal exists because early users' honesty is worth more to this product than their subscriptions.
The company
Revive Drones LLC is a Microsoft-verified publisher — the blue verified badge on the consent screen is Microsoft's confirmation of that, not mine. Payments run through Stripe; SentRules never sees your card number. SentRules is an independent service for Microsoft Outlook and is not affiliated with Microsoft.
Questions, doubts, bug reports, or just your story about the rule they took away: support@sentrules.com. I answer.