"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message
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Stop using the Junk Folder as one that displays in the Outlook Today
folder.
Any why would you want to mark junk mail as read? Simply ignoring it and
deleting it is the best way to deal with it, after scanning the folder for
false positives.

Because it is annoying to be constantly reminded of how many junk messages I
get per day - butas I need to scan it for false positives occasionally I
want to keep it in folder view. Then when I empty the junk folder into
deleted items, all the bold unread messages are in the bin, annoying me more
and not distinguishing themselves from genuinely useful unread items that
might also be in the bin. In any case, whatever my reasoning, why is it so
difficult for Microsoft to add this simple feature, which a few minutes
googling shows that a lot of people have requested over the past six -seven
years?

Ric wrote:

Then when I empty the
junk folder into deleted items, all the bold unread messages are in
the bin, annoying me more and not distinguishing themselves from
genuinely useful unread items that might also be in the bin.

First, emptying the Junk E-mail folder (i.e., right-clickEmpty Junk E-mail)
does not move anything to the Deleted Items bin. Emptying the Junk E-mail
folder is a permanent delete for the items in it. Secind, by definition
there should be nothing "useful" in the Deleted Items folder, just like
there's nothing useful in the wastebasket in your bathroom or kitchen, since
you don't put anything in a wastebasket that you want to keep.
--
Brian Tillman

First, emptying the Junk E-mail folder (i.e., right-clickEmpty Junk
E-mail) does not move anything to the Deleted Items bin. Emptying the
Junk E-mail folder is a permanent delete for the items in it.

You're incorrect. Emptying Junk sends it to the bin - on my machine anyway.

Secind, by definition
there should be nothing "useful" in the Deleted Items folder, just like
there's nothing useful in the wastebasket in your bathroom or kitchen,
since you don't put anything in a wastebasket that you want to keep.

Eh? It is easy to accidentally delete useful items, particularly if you
synchronise with a PDA.

Ric wrote:

You're incorrect. Emptying Junk sends it to the bin - on my machine
anyway.

Then your machine is different, but I suspect that most machines would
behave as does mine: Outlook 2003. Naturally I tested prior to posting.

Eh? It is easy to accidentally delete useful items, particularly if
you synchronise with a PDA.

Naturally everyone had accidentally deleted something (although my years of
using a PDA don't indicate that PDAs make that more likely), but your
statement, "distinguishing themselves from genuinely useful unread items
that might also be in the bin," seemed to me to indicate that you use the
bin for storing useful items. I'll concede that may be a wrong impression
and you weren't trying to convey that, but it doesn't change the fact that
keeping useful items in the Deleted Items fodler is, in general, a bad idea.
--
Brian Tillman