Outlook 2003 - combining rules and spam function

[Rasmus]

I am using Office 2003, and have encountered some problems with the
spam function.
At each send/recieve, I am collecting emails for 4 different accounts
(with different pop servers) - and have created a rule so that each
email account is moved directly into a seperate folder for each
account.
The one account that goes straight into the inbox works fine with the
spam folder, and it weeds out the most blatant spam emails.
On the other accounts (where I have created rules to move every email
collected from that account into a specific folder) I notice that the
email that are spam take a "short trip" into the SPAM mailbox, only to
be "moved out" again by the rule that I have created.
The end result is that EVERY mail from these accounts (including all
the spam) are transfered into the specific folder.
Can anyone think of a way to solve this problem so that these accounts
also will be affected by the spam filter?
Worst case scenario, I would have to let them all go in the inbox but
I really dont want to do that.
Hope someone can offer me some advice on this.
Thanks!

 

[Gerard Verhoef]

I have the same problem. No solution, just a work around.
If you activate the rules manually once a day or at any frequency that
suites you, the spam is filtered out and the mails are getting into their
folders.

Hope someone else has a real solution

Gerard

 

[Tom Smith]

It sounds like your rules are not set up in the proper
order. Moving to the Spam Folder should be after not
before the rules that separate your e-mail into the other
folders. If the Spam rule is first, rules that follow
will override.

Also,if it is a Spam rule you created yourself and not
the built-in spam rule, then in the setup of the rule
where you specify to move it to the Spam Folder, also
check the line that says "Stop processing any more rules".

Tom Smith

 

[Jason]

Same problem here. Will be glad when it is fixed.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It sounds like your rules are not set up in the proper
order. Moving to the Spam Folder should be after not
before the rules that separate your e-mail into the other
folders. If the Spam rule is first, rules that follow
will override.

And how do you do that, when the "spam rule" isn't explicit, but handled
automatically by Outlook? In other words, I know my spam filter is working,
because it filters spam, but if I open the Rules Wizard and show my rules,
the spam filter is not listed there.