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Author: Glen Harness
Date: Sep 19, 2008 19:24

I still need to manually go through the junk folder and make sure there's
nothing in there that's not junk. I may only find 10 out of a 1000 that are
not junk, but I still don't want to get rid of them.

Glen

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" msn.com> wrote in message
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> 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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