AVOIDING BOLD LETTERS WITH JUNK MAIL

[Ameneses]

I use the microsoft spam filter with outlook 2007 and as spam arrives, the
JUNK folder is immediately bolded and an envelope icon appears in the task
bar.
The problem is that spam arrives every minute and as such I'd like to avoid
the aforementined when mail arrives an is considered junk.
Please advice.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I use the microsoft spam filter with outlook 2007 and as spam
arrives, the JUNK folder is immediately bolded and an envelope icon
appears in the task bar.
The problem is that spam arrives every minute and as such I'd like to
avoid the aforementined when mail arrives an is considered junk.
Please advice.

Alas, the advice is "live with it." Junk E-mail messages that arrive are,
in fact, new messages, so Outlook will display the new message count to the
right of the folder and will enable the new message icon in the Notification
area. The process that notes the arrival of a new message and asserts the
notification icon most often runs before the junk filter.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Not true, if the email is captured by the Junk Email filter of Outlook (so
not by any rules you have configured or any 3rd party junk email filter that
you might have installed), Outlook will not display any alert.

Other then cleaning out your Junk Email folder, mark all items as read or
configure Outlook to immediately delete messages marked as junk, you cannot
do anything about the bolded state of the Junk Email folder.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Not true, if the email is captured by the Junk Email filter of
Outlook (so not by any rules you have configured or any 3rd party
junk email filter that you might have installed), Outlook will not
display any alert.

Well, that's what I thought, but since there have been several reports of
people seeing the new message icon after having received mail Outlook places
in the Junk E-mail folder, I thought perhaps I was wrong. I've never really
noticed, myself, because when I see the rare message Outlook flags as junk,
it's always when there are other new messages that have arrived.