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Richard
Good Morning Folks (hope everyone is well).
I have an interesting situation here which I'm not sure how to explain the
results I'm getting from a rule I've setup in Outlook 2007.
Our Exchange Server uses GFI Mail Essentials to filter out Spam Emails (we
don't have a huge volume of emails in our company), and those which are
filtered out are sent to an exchange mailbox and quickly viewed each morning
to pass on any important messages which may have been inadvertanly filtered
out due to keywords by the spam filter and passed on (there's only about
300-400 messages, doesn't take long).
There is one particular Spam message though which uses an image and no text
which contains a hyperlink to a website, which each different email has a
different link name (typical Spammers trick as you would know).
The only common part of the email is the extension on the end of the
hyperlink (eg, http://friendgun.cn/ or http://absol.cn/ or htpp://flavoid.cn/
etc all end with the text ".cn/").
My thinking was to try and create an Outlook rule and search for just ".cn/"
using search in subject and body to help make our review each morning
quicker, but when you run on the specified folder, it doesn't seem to work.
What I found however, is that if I scroll through all the messages and if I
view each and every of the emails in the reading pane of Outlook, and THEN
run the rule that I created above AFTER I've viewed all the messages (I don't
even have to set mark as Read, just view it), it THEN succesfully processes
the rule and all the messages that contained the hyperlink ending with ".cn/"
are moved to my specified folder.
Whilst it works, I don't seem to understand why it works, and I'd like it to
be able to process the rule without having to preview all the messages.
Does anyone have any useful tips on what might be occuring here?
Thansk in advance,
Richard.
I have an interesting situation here which I'm not sure how to explain the
results I'm getting from a rule I've setup in Outlook 2007.
Our Exchange Server uses GFI Mail Essentials to filter out Spam Emails (we
don't have a huge volume of emails in our company), and those which are
filtered out are sent to an exchange mailbox and quickly viewed each morning
to pass on any important messages which may have been inadvertanly filtered
out due to keywords by the spam filter and passed on (there's only about
300-400 messages, doesn't take long).
There is one particular Spam message though which uses an image and no text
which contains a hyperlink to a website, which each different email has a
different link name (typical Spammers trick as you would know).
The only common part of the email is the extension on the end of the
hyperlink (eg, http://friendgun.cn/ or http://absol.cn/ or htpp://flavoid.cn/
etc all end with the text ".cn/").
My thinking was to try and create an Outlook rule and search for just ".cn/"
using search in subject and body to help make our review each morning
quicker, but when you run on the specified folder, it doesn't seem to work.
What I found however, is that if I scroll through all the messages and if I
view each and every of the emails in the reading pane of Outlook, and THEN
run the rule that I created above AFTER I've viewed all the messages (I don't
even have to set mark as Read, just view it), it THEN succesfully processes
the rule and all the messages that contained the hyperlink ending with ".cn/"
are moved to my specified folder.
Whilst it works, I don't seem to understand why it works, and I'd like it to
be able to process the rule without having to preview all the messages.
Does anyone have any useful tips on what might be occuring here?
Thansk in advance,
Richard.