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Nikolai Franke
Hello all
One thing I don't really understand (and that doesn't seem to be explained
anywhere) is how the mailing list rules work. I have my junk mail filter set
to exclusive, and there are mails who's sender I don't want in my address
book, but I still want to get their mail into my inbox. So I click 'this is
not junk mail', and then use the 'create a new mailing list rule' option.
Doing so produces an "edit mailing list rule' panel, in which in many cases
the 'name' field is either 'untitled' or has indeed something to do with the
sender, but the 'list address' is either 'Undisclosed-Recipient:;' or just
':;' or my own e-mail address; that beeing the case although the sender is
obvious and correctly displayed in the mail view.
In entourage, normally the name of a rule is relevant only for one's own
personal overview, it doesn't have a technical function. But in this case,
all that seems related to the task (namely to allow mails from this sender
in) is in this irrelevant name field, while what I would believe important,
namely the 'list address' field, contains only insignificant information
(like my own address).
In the 'advanced' part of the panel, there's more options, but they all
presuppose an understanding of what a 'list address' might be, and I cannot
think of anything but this beeing the address allowed in. But why, then, is
it put in in some cases and not in others?
I ask all that because I had fatal problems with rules before that made both
the rules and the junk mail filtering unoperational, and I had to reinstall
and manually configure it all from the scratch, and I don't want to have to
do that once more.
thanks a lot
N.
One thing I don't really understand (and that doesn't seem to be explained
anywhere) is how the mailing list rules work. I have my junk mail filter set
to exclusive, and there are mails who's sender I don't want in my address
book, but I still want to get their mail into my inbox. So I click 'this is
not junk mail', and then use the 'create a new mailing list rule' option.
Doing so produces an "edit mailing list rule' panel, in which in many cases
the 'name' field is either 'untitled' or has indeed something to do with the
sender, but the 'list address' is either 'Undisclosed-Recipient:;' or just
':;' or my own e-mail address; that beeing the case although the sender is
obvious and correctly displayed in the mail view.
In entourage, normally the name of a rule is relevant only for one's own
personal overview, it doesn't have a technical function. But in this case,
all that seems related to the task (namely to allow mails from this sender
in) is in this irrelevant name field, while what I would believe important,
namely the 'list address' field, contains only insignificant information
(like my own address).
In the 'advanced' part of the panel, there's more options, but they all
presuppose an understanding of what a 'list address' might be, and I cannot
think of anything but this beeing the address allowed in. But why, then, is
it put in in some cases and not in others?
I ask all that because I had fatal problems with rules before that made both
the rules and the junk mail filtering unoperational, and I had to reinstall
and manually configure it all from the scratch, and I don't want to have to
do that once more.
thanks a lot
N.