Run rules before Jujnk mail filter

[Glen Harness]

I'm using Outlook 2007 with several POP3 accounts. One of those accounts is
what you might call a "master" account for my domain. The only email it gets
is spam, since I don't use it to send email or give it out to anyone.
Outlook is pretty much catching everything coming from that domain and
putting it into my Junk email folder.

I also am getting emails on another domain addressed to a few particular
non-existent addresses. I've created rules for those to delete them. But
Outlook is moving most of those into Junk. And Outlook is moving (spam)
emails from my regular email into Junk as it's supposed to.

I can manually run the rules on the Junk email folder (e.g. I just had about
2000 emails in my junk folder; after running the rules, I was left with
about 450 to go through addressed to my normal email account). But it's
really a hassle to mark about 50 rules to run manually.

Here's what I'd like:

a) a way to run rules before the junk mail filter gets them
or
b) a macro to run the rules against the junk mail folder.

I've found a macro to run rules, but it only runs them against the inbox.
I'd hoped to modify it to run against the junk mail folder, but Microsoft's
documentation is less than adequate.

Anyone have any ideas?

Glen

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You can't run rules before junk rules.

Why not set up autoarchive to delete the mail in the junk folder daily and
let it delete the junk for you?

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[Glen Harness]

I still need to manually go through the junk folder and make sure there's
nothing in there that's not junk. I may only find 10 out of a 1000 that are
not junk, but I still don't want to get rid of them.

Glen

You can't run rules before junk rules.

Why not set up autoarchive to delete the mail in the junk folder daily and
let it delete the junk for you?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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I'm using Outlook 2007 with several POP3 accounts. One of those accounts
is what you might call a "master" account for my domain. The only email
it gets is spam, since I don't use it to send email or give it out to
anyone. Outlook is pretty much catching everything coming from that
domain and putting it into my Junk email folder.

I also am getting emails on another domain addressed to a few particular
non-existent addresses. I've created rules for those to delete them. But
Outlook is moving most of those into Junk. And Outlook is moving (spam)
emails from my regular email into Junk as it's supposed to.

I can manually run the rules on the Junk email folder (e.g. I just had
about 2000 emails in my junk folder; after running the rules, I was left
with about 450 to go through addressed to my normal email account). But
it's really a hassle to mark about 50 rules to run manually.

Here's what I'd like:

a) a way to run rules before the junk mail filter gets them
or
b) a macro to run the rules against the junk mail folder.

I've found a macro to run rules, but it only runs them against the inbox.
I'd hoped to modify it to run against the junk mail folder, but
Microsoft's documentation is less than adequate.

Anyone have any ideas?

Glen

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

I've set up auto-formatting for the Junk folder. mails that meet specific
criteria are highlighted blue. That works very good, and I can set at a
glance what's most likely no spam.

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Am Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:24:21 -0500 schrieb Glen Harness:

I still need to manually go through the junk folder and make sure there's
nothing in there that's not junk. I may only find 10 out of a 1000 that are
not junk, but I still don't want to get rid of them.

Glen

You can't run rules before junk rules.

Why not set up autoarchive to delete the mail in the junk folder daily and
let it delete the junk for you?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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(e-mail address removed)

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

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I'm using Outlook 2007 with several POP3 accounts. One of those accounts
is what you might call a "master" account for my domain. The only email
it gets is spam, since I don't use it to send email or give it out to
anyone. Outlook is pretty much catching everything coming from that
domain and putting it into my Junk email folder.

I also am getting emails on another domain addressed to a few particular
non-existent addresses. I've created rules for those to delete them. But
Outlook is moving most of those into Junk. And Outlook is moving (spam)
emails from my regular email into Junk as it's supposed to.

I can manually run the rules on the Junk email folder (e.g. I just had
about 2000 emails in my junk folder; after running the rules, I was left
with about 450 to go through addressed to my normal email account). But
it's really a hassle to mark about 50 rules to run manually.

Here's what I'd like:

a) a way to run rules before the junk mail filter gets them
or
b) a macro to run the rules against the junk mail folder.

I've found a macro to run rules, but it only runs them against the inbox.
I'd hoped to modify it to run against the junk mail folder, but
Microsoft's documentation is less than adequate.

Anyone have any ideas?

Glen