Bill, Make sure SPAM is the last mail action in the list. Regards Neville
>Hello, all! > >Spam has just gotten to the point where I am trying to do some >filtering, but I must be doing something wrong with Mail Actions >in trying to set it up. Any advice will be appreciated! > >I set up a "Spam" folder. > >The way I have it set up, virtually all the spam is going into >the "Spam" folder, but so is a lot of my good mail which should >be going into the "In" folder. > >I set up two Mail Actions - 1) Pass, 2) Spam, in that order. > >In the "Pass" I put all the good emails which I was finding >in the "Spam" folder. Example: my daily email "Today's >Headlines" from the New York Times was landing in the "Spam" >folder. So I put it in the "Pass" action, trying several ways >such as Subject Contains "Today's Headlines" - if true Apply >actions, if false Go to next line. I tried other things with >"From" etc. which are true for this email, but the email still >keeps landing in my Spam folder. > >All the entries in the "Pass" action say if true Apply actions, >if false Go to next line. Except that the last entry says if >true Apply actions, if false Don't apply actions. > >The Action for Pass is: File the message in "In" box. > >I thought that "Pass" would be acted on first, and that >everything in "Pass" would go into the "In" box, but it doesn't >work, at least not in many of the cases. > >For the "Spam" action I made a list of now about 180 things >which I found common to spams, and it must be pretty good >because it is rare that a spam lands in my "In" box. When one >does, I analyze it and find something about it which I put into >the Action to further refine the Action. > >The Action for "Spam" is: File the message in "Spam." > >All the entries in the "Spam" action say if true Apply actions, >if false Go to next line. Except that the last entry says if >true Apply actions, if false Don't apply actions. > >I thought that "Pass" should go first because some of the good >emails might contain things which, if allowed to go thru the >"Spam" Action, might land them in the "Spam" folder. But many >of them go there anyway, even though Pass is the first Action. > >So the question is: Why isn't the "Pass" action working when >the "Spam" action is working so well? There must be some flaw >in my reasoning. If you can throw some light on this, it will >be greatly appreciated. > >Best regards, > >Bill > > >_______________________________oOo______________________________ >William D. Bandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zephyr Cove NV USA > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
