Is there an outlook command to move an email to the junk folder?

[Gordon]

Let me tell you a tale. Last fall i was contacted by a lawyer to
serve as an expert witness in a court case involving email. Never did
get to qualify because the prosecution offered a good deal to the
defendant. (The state didn't have anything worth bringing to court
but I suspect the prosecutor didn't find that out until after he was
faced with the prospect of me on the stand and consulted HIS experts.)

Let me tell you another tale. I own a domain name (which happens to
be for sale -it's a three letter English word) which attracts a lot
of junk mail because people think it's cute to use the name when
forced to enter an email address in a form. Hence I get lots more
junk mail than the average person.

Let me tell you yet a third tale. If you visit http://3bears.biz,
you'll see that I like to write software that avoids drag and drop. I
call it easy on the wrist software. D&D is an interesting game, a
nice way to do just one thing on the computer, but a real drag when
you have to do a lot of work.

Now my assertion in the court case would have been that the vast
majority of email is forged (in the sense of not coming from the
person / pc it purports to.) We know that the vast majority is spam.
MS's Frontbridge subsidiary dumped about 90% of its cstomer's
incoming email during a recent 30 day period. My assertion is that
most of that 90% is forged.

But to prove this for my self I'm going to have to look at a
significant sample. Do some statistics, etc. Hence, I want my junk
mail. And since I have about 36000 pieces from the few months i've
been collecting, i want to handle it easily.

Hence my need for the one button no side effect click.

That is just one story about the need for the button.

If you consider the anti-spam forces you can add another group that
just might want such a button.

The need for the command is legit if perhaps a bit obscure.

Well you must be an almost UNIQUE case then.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's definitely legit in your case, because you have a professional interest in the actual junk content that you're receiving. I doubt, though, that Microsoft would find that reason enough to building in that functionality at a cost (since product development resources are always finite) of not building in some functionality that would directly benefit the other 99% of users.

As you already know, a little Outlook VBA code usually can take care of these sorts of special cases quite well.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

Now my assertion in the court case would have been that the vast
majority of email is forged (in the sense of not coming from the
person / pc it purports to.) We know that the vast majority is spam.
MS's Frontbridge subsidiary dumped about 90% of its cstomer's
incoming email during a recent 30 day period. My assertion is that
most of that 90% is forged.

But to prove this for my self I'm going to have to look at a
significant sample. Do some statistics, etc. Hence, I want my junk
mail. And since I have about 36000 pieces from the few months i've
been collecting, i want to handle it easily.

Hence my need for the one button no side effect click.

That is just one story about the need for the button.

So, by your own admission, in this case, the message is NOT junk. You find
it has value. So why put it in the Junk E-mail folder?