Office XP cannot carry out junk mail rules occasionally

[news.microsoft.com]

I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all the
usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder. By and
large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it sends mail to my
junk mail folder but I can always delete them from there and doing this to
one or two pieces of mail a week is not much of an annoyance)

But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the mail from
my inbox

Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not others? The
rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly gave me this message
a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and gave it again overnight,
(stopping receipt of all mail thereafter until I OK'ed the screen telling me
this and cycled around sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems
to be working today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What does the mail that generates that warning have in common? Remember,
spammers are changing at a rate faster than we find ways to block them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, news.microsoft.com asked:

| I have set up a junk mail rule which filters out mail containing all
| the usual junk mail words and puts them into my delete items folder.
| By and large it seems to do the job fairly well. (Occasionally it
| sends mail to my junk mail folder but I can always delete them from
| there and doing this to one or two pieces of mail a week is not much
| of an annoyance)
|
| But occasionally it sends me the warning that it cannot delete the
| mail from my inbox
|
| Does anyone know why it would do this on some occasions and not
| others? The rule seems to have worked for a year or so but suddenly
| gave me this message a week or so ago. It then worked for a week and
| gave it again overnight, (stopping receipt of all mail thereafter
| until I OK'ed the screen telling me this and cycled around
| sending/receiving again) last night. The rule seems to be working
| today.

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Nothing in particular: It conflicts with two obvious junk mail parameters.
Firstly it uses the work MEDICATION in its subject matter and secondly it
comes from an obviously made-up name (no one in the real world has names
like Thaddeus Peck or Rubble M Smout: Thankfully the spammers are running
out of real-sounding names to use).

I should add that Outlook DOES delete it from my inbox and puts it into my
deleted items folder!

It does seem as if the spammer has found some way around an obvious email
rule but as it is deleting the message, I am not sure what the error
message is trying to tell me? (I stopped telling outlook to 'permanently
delete messages' years ago when I disovered that this part of a rule I
might create doesn't work)