Outlook 2003 Rules - process the rule before/after Junk Email Filt

[Guest]

It would be nice to have a new option when creating rules in Outlook 2003,
whereby you could specify if the rule should run before or after the Junk
Email filter.

Start Processing Incoming Email:
rule 1
rule 2
check for junk email
rule 3
rule 4
End Processing Incoming Email

 

[Guest]

I agree totally. I just downloaded the trial of Office 2003 and I like it
all except for the fact that my rules do not work on emails that are sent to
the junk email folder. In office XP I had rules that filtered out a lot of
spam and now it all just ends up in the spam folder instead of deleting it so
I end up wasting my time screening spam. If I could run some rules before
the junk filter it would eliminate even more spam. At least give us this
option - or do we have to wait until Office 2010 is released???

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

disable junk email filtering and let rules handle it - because of how the
junk filtering works on the transport it needs run either run before or
after rules wizard - it can't run in between rules (in part because it
doesn't use the rules wiz mechanism.)

to use rules exclusively, try
http://www.slipstick.com/rules/junkmail.htm#sue

 

[Guest]

Is it possible to control whether the junk email filtering runs before or
after the rules wizard? I want my rules to run first, accepting known
good Email and deleting known trash, before Outlook applies the junk
filters. But the junk filters are getting there first, and I have to run my
rules manually against the junk folder every time I log on and receive
mail.
Thanks.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No you can't. If these messages are coming from the same sender add them to
your Safe Senders list.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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Is it possible to control whether the junk email filtering runs before or
after the rules wizard? I want my rules to run first, accepting known
good Email and deleting known trash, before Outlook applies the junk
filters. But the junk filters are getting there first, and I have to run my
rules manually against the junk folder every time I log on and receive
mail.
Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I'm having the opposite problem. I have several accounts. I use rules to
move mail from each account to a seperate folder. They never get tested for
junk email.

Any way to resolve this problem?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Did you install Office 2003 Service Pack 2 already? They changed the
behavior so that Junk E-mail filtering goed before executing rules.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I'm having the opposite problem. I have several accounts. I use rules to
move mail from each account to a seperate folder. They never get tested for
junk email.

Any way to resolve this problem?