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Jim Stoner
Like many others have posted over the last few weeks,
there is one major problem I'm finding with the new junk
email filter in Outlook 2003.
I have multiple POP3 mail accounts, and I use rules to
auto-file them to various personal folders, rather than
leaving them all in the inbox.
Unfortunately, this totally negates the junk email
filter. Junk emails sent to these accounts get filed in
the personal folders by the rules, as well as legitimate
emails.
One poster suggested that the junk filter is applied
first and the junk emails are actually being sent to the
junk folder, but then the rules are later moving the junk
email out of the junk folder into the specified personal
folders.
If that is what is happening, it should be very easy for
Microsoft to provide a fix this. They just need to add a
new exception rule, so that we can specify that mails in
a specific folder, like the Junk Email folder, don't get
processed by each specific rule.
For example, a rule with this new option might be:
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with "Joe Smith" in the recipient's address
move it to the "Smiths email" folder
except if it is in the "Junk E-mail" folder
Does anyone have any work arounds for this today? And do
Microsoft developers read this forum, or do I need to
request this feature (or bug fix, depending on your point
of view) in some other way?
Thanks,
Jim
there is one major problem I'm finding with the new junk
email filter in Outlook 2003.
I have multiple POP3 mail accounts, and I use rules to
auto-file them to various personal folders, rather than
leaving them all in the inbox.
Unfortunately, this totally negates the junk email
filter. Junk emails sent to these accounts get filed in
the personal folders by the rules, as well as legitimate
emails.
One poster suggested that the junk filter is applied
first and the junk emails are actually being sent to the
junk folder, but then the rules are later moving the junk
email out of the junk folder into the specified personal
folders.
If that is what is happening, it should be very easy for
Microsoft to provide a fix this. They just need to add a
new exception rule, so that we can specify that mails in
a specific folder, like the Junk Email folder, don't get
processed by each specific rule.
For example, a rule with this new option might be:
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with "Joe Smith" in the recipient's address
move it to the "Smiths email" folder
except if it is in the "Junk E-mail" folder
Does anyone have any work arounds for this today? And do
Microsoft developers read this forum, or do I need to
request this feature (or bug fix, depending on your point
of view) in some other way?
Thanks,
Jim