Junk mail doesnt filter when rules are enabled - Outlook 2003

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Will

Hello,

I receive mail from many pop3 accounts and mailing lists.
I use rules to organize the mail within my mailbox. One
problem I am having is that the junk mail filter does not
screen mail that is affected by the rules.

So for instance, I get an email from some alternate
account that I have. The mail comes in and gets picked up
by the rule and moved to the appropriate folder. When
this happens, the junk mail filter never checks the
message. Only mail left in the Inbox is screened.

Can someone help figure out how to make this work or does
anyone have a workaround? I'd hate to have to add a third
party SPAM filter to Outlooks pretty decent filter.

Thanks!
 
I'm having the same problem. Apparently, the junk filters are applied
before any rules, and since in 2003 the filters are not simply
predefined rules you can't specify to "Stop processing any more
rules."

Has anyone found a way to deal with this problem?
 
Yes, I am dealing with this problem. I get mail from three pop accounts. I
filter ALL my email based on what mail account it comes from and put it into
a corresponding folder.

Outlook catches ZERO percent of my junk mail because of this....

How can we get outlook junkfilter to work right??

Thanks.

A very frustrated Lawrence
 
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