Doug I am glad to hear that I am not the only person that this has happened to! I think I deleted my Spam mail action 3 times before I finally trained myself to do things in the right order :-)
Now I always close the Mail Actions windows before trying to delete the spam email. I found that the inconvenience of having to rebuild 40+ different conditions in a mail action acted as a very good reminder to do the right thing. For a while I was ultra cautious and I exported my Spam mail action to a separate file every time I added a new criteria. (Select the mail action, then choose File, Save As File). I forget where I found out about this feature of Emailer, but it saved my bacon a couple of times :-) Nowadays I tend to be more free spirited and don't back up my mail actions. Maybe I don't add to the mail actions that often any more - I have 30 tests against specific email addresses/domains, 68 against different subjects and 48 on specific body text. (OK, don't worry. I just backed them up for good measure!) However, with the recent worm attacks, I caved and took up on my ISP's offer to do server side filtering for spam. This seems to have captured 90% of my spam. Now all I have to do is handle the notifications of all the spam emails they have deleted :-) Mike On 6/10/03 9:21 pm, Doug McAdam said: >When I receive a SPAM message that is new I highlight it, Open my Mail >Actions List, select the Group I want, open Mail Actions Entrie and add a >new action. Then I do a Save and the Mail Actions List is still open and >inadvertently I hit Delete thinking I am deleting the SPAM Email and it >will Delete the Group I had highlighted in my Mail Actions List. Is there >any way to automatically avoid this and also is there any way to recover >my Deleted Group of 20 actions or must I create a whole new List which is >difficult since I deleted all the original SPAM messages from which I >created this Group. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
