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Author: Diane Poremsky [MVP]
Date: Sep 19, 2008 19:09

You can't run rules before junk rules.

Why not set up autoarchive to delete the mail in the junk folder daily and
let it delete the junk for you?

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"Glen Harness" wrote in message
news:#80cpgrGJHA.4760@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> I'm using Outlook 2007 with several POP3 accounts. One of those accounts
> is what you might call a "master" account for my domain. The only email it
> gets is spam, since I don't use it to send email or give it out to anyone.
> Outlook is pretty much catching everything coming from that domain and
> putting it into my Junk email folder.
>
> I also am getting emails on another domain addressed to a few particular
> non-existent addresses. I've created rules for those to delete them. But
> Outlook is moving most of those into Junk. And Outlook is moving (spam)
> emails from my regular email into Junk as it's supposed to.
>
> I can manually run the rules on the Junk email folder (e.g. I just had
> about 2000 emails in my junk folder; after running the rules, I was left
> with about 450 to go through addressed to my normal email account). But
> it's really a hassle to mark about 50 rules to run manually.
>
> Here's what I'd like:
>
> a) a way to run rules before the junk mail filter gets them
> or
> b) a macro to run the rules against the junk mail folder.
>
> I've found a macro to run rules, but it only runs them against the inbox.
> I'd hoped to modify it to run against the junk mail folder, but
> Microsoft's documentation is less than adequate.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Glen
>
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