I don't know what I've done but, things have changed

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Peter May

I don't know what I've done but, now whenever a new message arrives in my
inbox, it's labeled with one of my categories. Also, when I send an email,
it no longer ends up in my "Sent" box. Instead, the email has this message
just below the toolbar (preceded by the alert symbol):
"This message will be moved to the Inbox folder after it is sent."
The only thing that I've done today that I'd consider out of the ordinary
was, when I received an email from a new newsgroup that formed and Entourage
moved it to the junk folder, I clicked on "This is not junk." When the
dialog box came up I clicked on "Create a mailing list rule" by accident.
Could that be the root of my problem? Did I create a rule by mistake?
TIA for your time.
Peter
 
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Michel Bintener

I'll warn you straight ahead, I've never used mailing lists, so I'm not
really familiar with what exactly this feature is doing. However, there seem
to be two different issues in this case: there's an option in Entourage's
preferences that automatically categorises your incoming email according to
the sender's category in the address book. In the preferences window,
Address Book tab, uncheck "Automatically match message categories to
senders' categories", and see if that changes anything.
In case you've accidentally created a mailing list rule, you should be able
to see it listed under Tools>Mailing List Manager. Delete the rule, or
disable it, and you should be alright again. If not, post back, and someone
who's actually used this feature might be able to help you out.

Michel
 
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Peter May

Michel! You are a genius. Looking in the Mailing List Manager and deleting
the rule I accidentally made did the trick. It didn't seem to have anything
to do with the preferences in the Address Book tab, just the Mailing List
Manager. Now I'm back to normal. I still don't understand exactly what
happened, what kind of powerful rule I accidentally created or why it would
affect every piece of mail in and out of my box but, the proof is in the
results! Thanks!
Peter
 
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