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Rules not working consistently
Ok, Outlook 2003.
I am getting a ton of junk mail for various ED medications (you know the medication that comes in a blue diamond shaped tablet) (see the last paragraph of this post). So I created a "rule" to delete any incoming message with in the subject. But the rule works inconsistently. Most such messages do get deleted, but not all of them. And I can't figure out why it's inconsistent. There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder, and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Why does it only get rid of about 80% of such target messages, while maybe 20% do not get deleted (it's not because of some weird characters in the subject because, remember, if I manually "run rule now", it does delete the messages that were not automatically deleted). Funny story, btw .... I have been trying to post this message for 2 weeks. It would NEVER post. I finally figured it out; in the message, I was spelling out the actual name of the drug that comes in a blue pill. Apparently, somewhere, there is a filter for this newsgroup that blocks messages which contain that word. I understand the point, BUT ..... sometimes, the word does appear in a message that isn't Spam. |
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There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder,
and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Because rules are fired *after* the junk mail filter. -- f.h. Microsoft Outlook MVP |
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There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder,
and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Because rules are fired *after* the junk mail filter and not on messages that it affects. -- f.h. Microsoft Outlook MVP |
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Rules not working consistently
See my response to your other post above
-- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Barry Watzman" wrote in message ... Ok, Outlook 2003. I am getting a ton of junk mail for various ED medications (you know the medication that comes in a blue diamond shaped tablet) (see the last paragraph of this post). So I created a "rule" to delete any incoming message with in the subject. But the rule works inconsistently. Most such messages do get deleted, but not all of them. And I can't figure out why it's inconsistent. There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder, and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Why does it only get rid of about 80% of such target messages, while maybe 20% do not get deleted (it's not because of some weird characters in the subject because, remember, if I manually "run rule now", it does delete the messages that were not automatically deleted). Funny story, btw .... I have been trying to post this message for 2 weeks. It would NEVER post. I finally figured it out; in the message, I was spelling out the actual name of the drug that comes in a blue pill. Apparently, somewhere, there is a filter for this newsgroup that blocks messages which contain that word. I understand the point, BUT .... sometimes, the word does appear in a message that isn't Spam. |
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So what? The junk mail filter does not delete ANYTHING; it merely moves
some things to the junk mail folder. The rule is then supposed to delete the message. But ... First, the rule is deleting SOME messages (most messages) but not all of them. Second, if the rule is run MANUALLY, it then deletes the messages that it didn't automatically delete. I see no explanation that would explain those two characteristics of how it is operating. F.H. Muffman wrote: There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder, and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Because rules are fired *after* the junk mail filter. |
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Rules not working consistently
There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder,
and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Because rules are fired *after* the junk mail filter. So what? The junk mail filter does not delete ANYTHING; it merely moves some things to the junk mail folder. The rule is then supposed to delete the message. But ... First, the rule is deleting SOME messages (most messages) but not all of them. Second, if the rule is run MANUALLY, it then deletes the messages that it didn't automatically delete. I see no explanation that would explain those two characteristics of how it is operating. Ok, let me rephrase: Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk. -- f.h. Microsoft Outlook MVP |
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"Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk"
I have to take issue, based on what is happening. More than 80% of the messages which fit the rule are first moved to the junk mail folder and THEN deleted by the rule (and appear in the deleted mail folder). But about 20% of the messages that meet the rule are being moved to the junk mail folder but are not subsequently deleted by the rule. The fact that MOST of the messages that fit the rule are being deleted from the junk mail folder contradicts your statement that "Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk". But the fact that not all of them are deleted (from EITHER the junk mail folder or the inbox) prompts me to post this message: "Rules not working CONSISTENTLY" In ***BOTH*** the inbox and the junk mail folder, I have some newly arrived messages that are deleted if I manually "run rule now" (while, in both cases, most such messages were deleted). But why should that EVER be the case? Why didn't the very same rule take the very same action (delete the message) at the time that the message arrived? F.H. Muffman wrote: Ok, let me rephrase: Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk. |
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"Barry Watzman" wrote in message
... "Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk" I have to take issue, based on what is happening. More than 80% of the messages which fit the rule are first moved to the junk mail folder and THEN deleted by the rule (and appear in the deleted mail folder). That's just not possible. Rules work automatically ONLY in the Inbox. That has been true since the beginning of Outlook. Since Outlook 2003 SP1, the behavior of the Junk E-mail filter is to run prior to rules. Thus, it is impossible for anything moved to the Junk E-mail folder (or ANY folder other than Inbox, for that matter) to be acted upon automatically by rules. It's true you can run rules manually on any folder, but they act automatically only on Inbox. The fact that MOST of the messages that fit the rule are being deleted from the junk mail folder contradicts your statement that "Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk".' Then you have something OTHER THAN Outlook and its rules performing that action. Outlook cannot. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Rules not working consistently
Ok, let me rephrase:
Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk. I have to take issue, based on what is happening. More than 80% of the messages which fit the rule are first moved to the junk mail folder and THEN deleted by the rule (and appear in the deleted mail folder). Take issue all you want, it's accurate. If the Outlook Junk Email engine decides a message is Junk, Rules will not *automatically* be applied to that message. You can run the rule manually in the Junk Email folder and they'll get affected then. I believe that the reasoning is that so you don't go doing actions to messages you don't care about, like, say, forwarding a spam to your team just because it happened to match some rule. -- f.h. Microsoft Outlook MVP |
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That's just not possible. Rules work automatically ONLY in the Inbox.
Specifically, rules runs on mail as it is downloaded and Rules Wizard rules check the mail that is left after Junk email filtering gets rid of the spam. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message ... "Barry Watzman" wrote in message ... "Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk" I have to take issue, based on what is happening. More than 80% of the messages which fit the rule are first moved to the junk mail folder and THEN deleted by the rule (and appear in the deleted mail folder). That's just not possible. Rules work automatically ONLY in the Inbox. That has been true since the beginning of Outlook. Since Outlook 2003 SP1, the behavior of the Junk E-mail filter is to run prior to rules. Thus, it is impossible for anything moved to the Junk E-mail folder (or ANY folder other than Inbox, for that matter) to be acted upon automatically by rules. It's true you can run rules manually on any folder, but they act automatically only on Inbox. The fact that MOST of the messages that fit the rule are being deleted from the junk mail folder contradicts your statement that "Rules do not operate on messages that are determined to be junk".' Then you have something OTHER THAN Outlook and its rules performing that action. Outlook cannot. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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