Junk filter BEFORE other filters?

[Bryan Anderson]

I am running Outlook 2003 and the Junk filter was working really well.
Then I started making other filters...one of them looks for my domain
name in the headers and if it's there it moves the email to a folder.

Problem is, this filter seems to activate before the junk filter, so
the junk sn't being filtered now! How can I set the junk filter to do
it's job first and THEN to run my own rules?

 

[InNeedOfAssistance]

I created this rule and set it as the first rule to run:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
with
'X-Spam-Level:******'or'X-Spam-Level:*****'or'X-Spam-Level:****'or'X-Spam-Level:***'or'X-Spam-Level:**'or'X-Spam-Level:*'
in the message header
and on this machine only
move it to the junk folder

I hope it works for you too. This really can be an anoying problem

 

[Brian Tillman]

I created this rule and set it as the first rule to run:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
with
'X-Spam-Level:******'or'X-Spam-Level:*****'or'X-Spam-Level:****'or'X-Spam-Le
vel:***'or'X-Spam-Level:**'or'X-Spam-Level:*'
in the message header
and on this machine only
move it to the junk folder

I don't see why this rule is formed like it is because Rules don't
understand wildcards.

 

[InNeedOfAssistance]

Hi Brian,

They are actually strings therefore not used as wildcards. If you look at a
header for a piece of junk mail you should see one of these strings in the
header:

'X-Spam-Level:******'
'X-Spam-Level:*****'
'X-Spam-Level:****'
'X-Spam-Level:***'
'X-Spam-Level:**
'X-Spam-Level:*'

 

[Brian Tillman]

They are actually strings therefore not used as wildcards. If you
look at a header for a piece of junk mail you should see one of these
strings in the header:

'X-Spam-Level:******'
'X-Spam-Level:*****'
'X-Spam-Level:****'
'X-Spam-Level:***'
'X-Spam-Level:**
'X-Spam-Level:*'

Wouldn't it be simpler, then, to just test for 'X-Spam-Level:*', since that
string is included in all the others as well? According to Microsoft,
testing for string "def" in a rule finds all strings containig that string,
such as "abcdef", "defghi", and "define", as well as " def ". My own
experience with rules seems to indicate that all delimiters are treated
identically so that a rule string of "one two three" will also find
"one/two/three", but I don't know that beyond a doubt.