Delete message having future sent date

  • Thread starter Kenneth B. Winiecki
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Kenneth B. Winiecki

I frequently get spam messages that have a date in the future as the ³sent
date², e.g., 2/11/28. I can¹t determine how to set up a rule that deletes
any message that has a ³future² sent date. Is there a way in Entourage 12
(Office 2008)?

This is a duplicate of the request I sent to
microsoft.public.office.mac.entourage because I don¹t know when to use one
vs. the other.

Thanks.
Ken
 
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Diane Ross

I frequently get spam messages that have a date in the future as the ³sent
date², e.g., 2/11/28. I can¹t determine how to set up a rule that deletes any
message that has a ³future² sent date. Is there a way in Entourage 12 (Office
2008)?
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Is the Junk Mail Filter not catching the messages? Are you just wanting to
auto delete?

Try criteria: Date Sent is greater than xxxx days. You¹ll have to pick the
number of days.

Action: Run AppleScript Nuke Messages (note this will permanently delete,
you might want to use Move messages to Deleted Items folder folder until you
are sure it¹s working correctly)

Download Nuke Messages:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/Nuke.zip>
 
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Kenneth B Winiecki

Thanks for the reply.

My Junk Mail Filter and Rules catch some (not all) of these and move them to
my Deleted Items folder. Then I have a Schedule item that deletes anything
³older than² 2 days from Deleted Items. The problem with ³older than² is
that the sent-date in these messages is not any days-old since the date is
in the future. It is like Negative 6000 days-old (since it¹s in year 2028).
The concept of ³older than² doesn¹t apply. Need something like ³less than 0
days-old², but Schedule items only support ³older than².

I looked at that AppleScript, but it¹s not clear how to modify it to catch
dates in the future.

Ken
 
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Diane Ross

The script nukes the messages only. It's the Criteria Date Sent is greater
that gets mail in the future.

Because the date is greater than it shouldn't be a negative number. I get
less than 5 junk emails a week that's not caught by the filter.

Have you looked at SpamSieve? Everyone that uses it reports back favorably.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/junk/spamsieve.html>
 
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