Outlook 2003 - combining rules and spam function

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From: Tom Smith (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:44:19 -0700

It sounds like your rules are not set up in the proper
order. Moving to the Spam Folder should be after not
before the rules that separate your e-mail into the other
folders. If the Spam rule is first, rules that follow
will override.

Also,if it is a Spam rule you created yourself and not
the built-in spam rule, then in the setup of the rule
where you specify to move it to the Spam Folder, also
check the line that says "Stop processing any more rules".

Tom Smith

>-----Original Message-----
>I am using Office 2003, and have encountered some
problems with the
>spam function.
>At each send/recieve, I am collecting emails for 4
different accounts
>(with different pop servers) - and have created a rule
so that each
>email account is moved directly into a seperate folder
for each
>account.
>The one account that goes straight into the inbox works
fine with the
>spam folder, and it weeds out the most blatant spam
emails.
>On the other accounts (where I have created rules to
move every email
>collected from that account into a specific folder) I
notice that the
>email that are spam take a "short trip" into the SPAM
mailbox, only to
>be "moved out" again by the rule that I have created.
>The end result is that EVERY mail from these accounts
(including all
>the spam) are transfered into the specific folder.
>Can anyone think of a way to solve this problem so that
these accounts
>also will be affected by the spam filter?
>Worst case scenario, I would have to let them all go in
the inbox but
>I really dont want to do that.
>Hope someone can offer me some advice on this.
>Thanks!
>.
>

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