Safe List filter not working

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Michael

Actually, the JEF was set to 'Safe Lists.' Furthermore, I
have no email addresses in my Contacts folder. All of
the addresses are in subfolders to the Contacts folder.
That being the case, it should keep everything except
emails from people on the safe lists out of the InBox,
but that's not happening. Much of the spam is being sent
to the Junk E-Mail box, but not all of it.

Almost all of the spam that is slipping through into my
InBox is coming from my account with pacbell.net. Might
that have something to do with it ?

If not, does anyone have any ideas ?

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Well you are not using the spam filter then.

To use the spam filter go to Tools-> Options-> tab
Preferences-> button Junk
E-mail Filter. Here you can configure the JEF to only use
the safe list.

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I am using Outlook (not Express) 2003 operating under
Windows XP Professional. I am a consultant, hence, I have
several 'Address Book' sub-folders under 'Contacts' each
containing the names and email addresses of the contacts
at each client.

I am being inundated with spam. The only email I want in
my InBox are those from people whose addresses I have in
my Address Book subfolders. I tried to use a filter
using the following steps:
1) I went to Tools
2) clicked on Rules & Alerts,
3) clicked on 'New rule'
4) selected 'Move message from someone to a folder'
5) selected 'Sender is in specified Address Book
6) clicked on the highlited word 'Specified'[Address
Book] in the 'Step 2' dialog box and highlighted the
first Address Book sub-folder
7) clicked on 'specified' [folder] and selected 'Inbox'
8) I clicked through the rest of the procedure, named the
rule after the Address Book sub-folder and
clicked 'Finish'
9) I repeated this process for every other sub-folder in
my address book

Despite these efforts and about 15 'rules' (i.e., one for
each Address Book sub-folder), the spam continues to pour
into my InBox.

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong and what I can do to
get the filter to work, please ? Thank you.
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