I had been having quite a problem with Outlook 2007 and my IMAP account with
respect to junk mail, receiving at times over such messages per day. The
junk mail settings did not appear to work correctly.
Quite by accident, I found the following settings to make the junk mail
filtering work at it should. No other setting combination will work properly.
First, select “Viewâ€, then “Current Viewâ€, then “Hide Messages Marked for
Deletionâ€. Second, select “Toolsâ€, then “Optionsâ€, then in the “Preferencesâ€
tab select the “Junk e-mail†button and tick off all of the boxes and the
“high†setting. Third, “move from the “Preferences†tab in the “Optionsâ€
window to the “Other†tab, select the “Reading Pane†button and then tick off
the “Mark items as read†box. Fourth, select “Viewâ€, make sure that
“AutoPreview†is not selected, select “Reading Pane†and then select either
“Right†or “Bottomâ€.
Believe it or not, my wife had this same general setup except with the
reading pane set to “Off†and the junk e-mail filtering did not work
correctly! Therefore, the settings must be exactly as I have described to
get the junk e-mail filtering to work.