how to forward in outlook 2002 w/o sending spam too

[Mindwyrm]

I'm forwarding e-mail to a blackberry. At the office the spam if filtered
out to the junk folder but somehow the spam is still forwarded to the
blackberry. How can I set up a rule that filters the spam before its
forwarded on?

 

[VanguardLH]

I'm forwarding e-mail to a blackberry. At the office the spam if filtered
out to the junk folder but somehow the spam is still forwarded to the
blackberry. How can I set up a rule that filters the spam before its
forwarded on?

Forwarding from WHERE?

If forwarding from your e-mail client then you are using a rule. The
e-mail client gets the e-mail and then forwards it to you. Obviously
the headers in the forwarded copy will show that it came from whatever
account your e-mail client used to send out that forwarded copy.
Anti-spam programs on the host where you run your e-mail client should
get rid of spam, or rules within your e-mail client should be junking or
trashing them with a stop-clause in those anti-spam rules, and your
forwarding rule is after those anti-spam rules.

If forwarding from the mail server using a server-side option, that
forwarding often never involves the server's anti-spam filter. When
forwarding is enabled, ALL e-mails are forwarding. They are forwarded
without them passing through the filter. It depends on the e-mail
provider whether they forward straight through or filter and then
forward. You'll have to check with whomever is your e-mail provider.

 

[Mindwyrm]

Forwarding from WHERE?

If forwarding from your e-mail client then you are using a rule. The
e-mail client gets the e-mail and then forwards it to you. Obviously
the headers in the forwarded copy will show that it came from whatever
account your e-mail client used to send out that forwarded copy.
Anti-spam programs on the host where you run your e-mail client should
get rid of spam, or rules within your e-mail client should be junking or
trashing them with a stop-clause in those anti-spam rules, and your
forwarding rule is after those anti-spam rules.

If forwarding from the mail server using a server-side option, that
forwarding often never involves the server's anti-spam filter. When
forwarding is enabled, ALL e-mails are forwarding. They are forwarded
without them passing through the filter. It depends on the e-mail
provider whether they forward straight through or filter and then
forward. You'll have to check with whomever is your e-mail provider.

appears to be coming in through an exchange server into the outlook program.
not 100% sure to be honest. So can't answer if the email is being forwarded
before it hits outlook or after. If it's after is there a way to customize a
rule in 2002 to send the spam to the junk folder before forwarding? I know
it can be done on newer versions of outlook but wasn't able to find any
documentation on it working for 2002.

 

[VanguardLH]

appears to be coming in through an exchange server into the outlook program.
not 100% sure to be honest. So can't answer if the email is being forwarded
before it hits outlook or after. If it's after is there a way to customize a
rule in 2002 to send the spam to the junk folder before forwarding? I know
it can be done on newer versions of outlook but wasn't able to find any
documentation on it working for 2002.

You need to define your rules list in order of blacklisting,
whitelisting, anti-spam, and bad mail rules. If any prior rule fires,
it should have the stop-clause. That prevents subsequent rules from
firing on the same e-mail. Catch-all rules, like sending copies of
e-mails that survive your gauntlet of other rules, go at the end of the
rules list, and that would include your forwarding rule to send the
survived e-mails to your Blackberry account.

Hard to tell what you need to do until you find out WHAT is actually
forwarding a copy of your e-mails to your Blackberry account.