Rules overriding Junk Mail filter in Outlook 2003

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Hey all,
Anyone have a resolution to this? I've seen multiple posts on Web
Boards where others are having the same problem....
The Junk Mail filter catches the Junk Mail, then the Outlook 2003
rules kick in and move the Junk Mail from the Junk Mail folder and
into other folders based upon established rules.

In my situation, I have 5 POP3 Accounts and rules to move email from
each account to a specified folder. I can actually watch the junk
mail go into the junkmail folder then get moved out to the appropriate
folder for the account upon which the email was received.

This basically makes the junk email filter useless.

Help?
 
I'm having the exact same problem - if only they had "stop running rules"
after the junk filter it would have solved it. The only way I found, which
is limited, is to have it delete the messages instead of moving them to the
junk folder. This is permanent deletion, so any "kosher" messages will be
gone forever - so I use it only with the lowest settings of the filter,
which is not as good as I'd like.

Anyone with a better solution will be announced as the Junk Rule Hero!
 
rather than moving the messages to new folders, leave all the mail in the
inbox and use Search folders to view mail by account. Or you can set flags
on messages based on accounts and view them in the follow up search folder.
 
Either that or Microsoft could consider a well known Industry department. It is called Quality Controol. That may be an unfamiliar concept to Microsoft I can understand that. Maybe software just has to be released before it is known whether it WORKS or not.

--
George Hester
__________________________________
Diane Poremsky said:
rather than moving the messages to new folders, leave all the mail in the
inbox and use Search folders to view mail by account. Or you can set flags
on messages based on accounts and view them in the follow up search folder.


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





TurnKnuckles said:
Hey all,
Anyone have a resolution to this? I've seen multiple posts on Web
Boards where others are having the same problem....
The Junk Mail filter catches the Junk Mail, then the Outlook 2003
rules kick in and move the Junk Mail from the Junk Mail folder and
into other folders based upon established rules.

In my situation, I have 5 POP3 Accounts and rules to move email from
each account to a specified folder. I can actually watch the junk
mail go into the junkmail folder then get moved out to the appropriate
folder for the account upon which the email was received.

This basically makes the junk email filter useless.

Help?
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Diane,
rather than moving the messages to new folders, leave all the mail in the
inbox and use Search folders to view mail by account. Or you can set flags
on messages based on accounts and view them in the follow up search folder.
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You gotta be kidding. MS forcing users to abaondon rules just because they
implement them in a buggy way? No way!
 
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