On 3/18/02 5:57 PM, "Bonnie Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Spam is becoming a big problem for me. I > have the spam filter turned on, but all it does is flag the offending > messages. How can I send them to a purgatory folder? FWIW, I use the Entourage X spam filter cranked up to the highest settings. That sets the status of the filtered emails to "Junk". At first, those filtered emails will contain a lot of real emails you don't want trashed. Over time, you will fine tune that. I move all the "junk" emails to a Junk folder I create, using rules. If status=junk, then move to folder "Junk". I review that folder to see what's in it. As I discover legitimate emails that got caught by the filter, I tell Entourage by clicking on the "this is not junk" link in the email window. That give me a dialog box with several options for insuring that the junk filter doesn't treat it as junk mail in the future. For example, I used it to define all mail from the domain apple.com as not being junk. I also find that junk mail gets through the filter at times, and I look at it in my inbox to determine if there's a criteria I could use in a rule to set the status to junk since the filter isn't catching it. I also use a rule to set the status of junk mail to "read" so my Junk folder doesn't try to attract my attention with a bold folder name. The suggestions on email911 that Adam mentioned are helpful. For example, I have a rule that sets status to junk for any email whose subject lines contains four spaces. Or all email to a certain account of mine that contains html formatting in the message body. Etc. Check the sites Adam recommended for other criteria you can use in rules. After a while, I could even determine rule criteria that deleted the emails without being moved to the Junk folder for review. For example, there's no email I'd ever want to read whose subject line contains the word "Mortgage." It gets deleted and marked read so I don't have to look at a bold "Deleted Items" folder name, and acustom schedule I created empties the trash every hour. If you go through the above process for several weeks, you develop a pretty fine tuned anti-spam approach. I rarely get spam in any of my legitimate mail folders. And since a lot of it is trashed with confidence and the trash automatically emptied, the amount of junk mail I have to actually review for possible keepers is down significantly. Doug ------------------------ Doug Brightwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 408-720-1359 Cell: 415-608-7618 FAX: 415-449-3559 ------------------------ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
