Problem with "Is in reply to me" Rule

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neon_bikini

I am using the rule "Is in reply to me" to make sure that any people
(email addresses) that I send a message to will not be classified as
junk. For reasons I can not determine, this is not always working.
Most emails are correctly classified. Intermitent messages are however
classified as junk when just earlier I had sent a message to the same
email address. What could be happening (it may not work at all and
maybe the good emails are accepted by other rules)?

The Rule looks like this:
RULE NAME, notJunk
IF ANY CRITERIA ARE MET, "Is in reply to me"
THEN, Run apple script, JunkBroom--Mark as good; Set category, none;
Move to folder, Inbox.
(Junk broom is an applescript with application that runs in the
background. It is a Junk mail database.)

Junk Mail filter setting is set to, Average. There are no scripts.

What is going on?

BTW. I'm running Entourage X on a Mac TiG4 667
 
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Adam Bailey

neon_bikini said:
I am using the rule "Is in reply to me" to make sure that any people
(email addresses) that I send a message to will not be classified as
junk. For reasons I can not determine, this is not always working.
Most emails are correctly classified. Intermitent messages are however
classified as junk when just earlier I had sent a message to the same
email address. What could be happening (it may not work at all and
maybe the good emails are accepted by other rules)?
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Entourage only knows if a message is a reply to you if the person writing to
you is using a program that generates a certain Internet header
(In-Reply-To). If someone is using a program that does not generate this
header, this rule won't notice.

You may want to combine this rule with some others, such as adding people to
whom you send mail to your Address Book and not Junking mail from people in
your Address Book.
 
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neon_bikini

Entourage only knows if a message is a reply to you if the person writing to
you is using a program that generates a certain Internet header
(In-Reply-To). If someone is using a program that does not generate this
header, this rule won't notice.
Click to expand...
Is this a bug in Entourage? For what purpose would this rule not apply?
 
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Adam Bailey

neon_bikini said:
Is this a bug in Entourage? For what purpose would this rule not apply?
Click to expand...

There are only two ways Entourage could potentially tell if a message is a
reply. The first is if the message features the proper In-Reply-To or
References headers -- which Entourage does.

The other option would be for Entourage to keep track of the subject line of
every message you send, and watch for incoming messages with the same
subject. This would cause lots of false hits in the case of non-unique
subject lines. You also wouldn't have Links between the messages.

It's not a bug. In fact, Entourage's ability to recognize replies is
light-years ahead of most other mail programs. But it's not perfect due to
the limitations in *other* programs.
 
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