junk mail filter and rules

[FX Digital ... www.fx-digital.com]

I utilise various rules to sort various email accounts in to various email
folders, for example sales@mydomain goes into my mydomain folder while
sales@another goes into my another folder... all pretty straight forward and
easy...

However I am finding that by utilising message rules to do this, it in
effect makes the junk mail filter obsolete in that it looks as if I am
somehow by passing it and all SPAM is being directed into these various
folders without the Junk Email Filter removing all the SPAM

Is there anyway to stop this and make it so that email messages come in, go
through the junk mail filter and then get sorted ???

Hopefully someone has an answer....

Steve

 

[KJR]

I have the opposite problem! My mail goes through the Junk filter *first*
and then gets sorted....

 

[zee]

I have the same problem and its really a pain in the ass
to have all the spam directed to all of those folders. I
dont know what this guy is talking about why would you
want spam in the folders that you have set up to sort the
mail?? you dont want to have spam there thats what you're
looking at

 

[KJR]

I actually have filters of my own that automatically delete mail from
certain senders from *the server* (pop3). I would prefer that these filter
occur first, rather than Outlook downloading these messages that I am 100%
sure are SPAM and putting them all in a spam folder (which I have to check
for false positives every so often).

To any MS MVPs looking at this thread:

Please let us know if there is a workaround, or possibly why it works one
way for some of us and another way for others.


Thanks,
Keith

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you'll need to use a program like mail to delete mail from the server.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

that was "you'll need to use a program like mailwasher" before you
spellchecker so rudely changed it.


--

you'll need to use a program like mail to delete mail from the server.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
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I actually have filters of my own that automatically delete mail from
certain senders from *the server* (pop3). I would prefer that these
filter
occur first, rather than Outlook downloading these messages that I am
100%
sure are SPAM and putting them all in a spam folder (which I have to
check
for false positives every so often).

To any MS MVPs looking at this thread:

Please let us know if there is a workaround, or possibly why it works one
way for some of us and another way for others.


Thanks,
Keith

 

[KJR]

Even though one of Outlook's rules allows for the deleting of messages from
the server?

you'll need to use a program like mailwasher to delete mail from the server.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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I actually have filters of my own that automatically delete mail from
certain senders from *the server* (pop3). I would prefer that these
filter
occur first, rather than Outlook downloading these messages that I am 100%
sure are SPAM and putting them all in a spam folder (which I have to check
for false positives every so often).

To any MS MVPs looking at this thread:

Please let us know if there is a workaround, or possibly why it works one
way for some of us and another way for others.


Thanks,
Keith

 

[KJR]

Cancel that. OE allows this, but Outlook 2003 apparently does not.

Even though one of Outlook's rules allows for the deleting of messages from
the server?

you'll need to use a program like mailwasher to delete mail from the server.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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[Randal South]

Will Outlook allow me to block spam by IP address instead of domain?

Randal
<rjs4you(at)netzero.net>

 

[mikey]

Ditto.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No. You could create rules to delete mail with words in the header and use
the IP # but it's very inefficient - Mailwasher (mailasher.net) is a better
solution.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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[Outlook vs Outlook Express]

Outlook and not Outlook Express allows you to delete messages from the server. However, this pertains to messages where only the description (working with headers) and not the full message is downloaded.