Configuring an IMAP account filtering

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Mykas0

Hi everyone.

I just configured Windows Mail, and added an account for my university mail.
I have no permissions over their folders, and I only have access to their
Inbox. Now, I wanted to authomatically filter all spam/phising mail that is
sent to that IMAP account, can anyone help me with this?

It could sound like an easy task, I activated the Tools -> Junk E-mail
options and all that, but nothing gets filtered.

Can anyone please help me?
Mykas0
 
Mykas0 said:
Hi everyone.

I just configured Windows Mail, and added an account for my university
mail. I have no permissions over their folders, and I only have access to
their Inbox. Now, I wanted to authomatically filter all spam/phising mail
that is sent to that IMAP account, can anyone help me with this?

It could sound like an easy task, I activated the Tools -> Junk E-mail
options and all that, but nothing gets filtered.

Can anyone please help me?
Mykas0
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Windows Mail rules just apply to POP3 accounts. Rules for IMAP mail have to
be set up at the server.
 
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE said:
Windows Mail rules just apply to POP3 accounts.
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Frank, does that include the junk e-mail filter as well as custom message rules?
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
Frank, does that include the junk e-mail filter as well as custom message
rules?
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Darn if I know, but I would think so.
 
Well Frank, then someone really screwed up. Rules used to apply to both POP
and IMAP accounts in OE. They also apply in Thunderbird. I was
contemplating switching to WM just recently as Thunderbird seems to have a
problem sending on my IMAP account but if I can't filter incoming IMAP email
into folders based on rules then it's worthless.

So for now I stay with Thunderbird. First Vista and now this? I run Ubuntu
Linux on my other machine and it works great.

Mykas0 - suggest you check out (free) Thunderbird. You can do what you want
to do with it.
 
Robert Giffin said:
Well Frank, then someone really screwed up. Rules used to apply to both
POP
and IMAP accounts in OE.
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OE rules cannot be automatically applied to IMAP mail.
 
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