Paul,
Thanks for the good explanation of junk status vs. junk category.
The thing is, I haven't manually set these messages to any category! Also, I
have no contacts in my address book assigned to the category "junk". Could
it be that the junk mail filter is setting both the "status" and "category"
to "junk"? Otherwise I cannot explain how these messages have a category of
"junk".
In any case, the focus of my original question was to determine why, when I
filter a mail folder based on "category is junk", do I see some messages
with a category of "none".?
Thanks!
-- Jim
On 2002-04-24 9:23 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/24/02 9:07 AM, "Jim Warthman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> On a whim I ran the Junk Mail Filter against my saved mail folder on my hard
>> drive.
>>
>> Next I wanted to see what had been marked as junk. I displayed that folder,
>> and selected "Category is Junk" from the popup menus at the top of the
>> window.
>>
>> Is this the best way to view the result of the Junk Mail Filter?
>>
>> I was surprised to find that not all messages displayed were flagged as
>> "junk"! Several messages have category listed as "None". Intuitively, it
>> seems that when I ask for "category is junk", I should not see other
>> messages.
>>
>> Can anyone explain what's going on?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- Jim
>>
>
> Junk category is something you can assign yourself manually to any object -
> messages, contacts, even vents and tasks and notes if you want to, or by
> rule to messages. What the filter assigns is Junk STATUS to messages. That
> ghostly flag indicates Junk STATUS. Whatever color you have set in Edit /
> Categories to the Junk category will indicate Junk category.
>
> You rule for automatically moving messages to the Junk folder should use as
> its criterion:
>
> Is Junk
>
> that's the same as junk status. You can also add other criteria, such as
> whether the message comes from one of several email addresses you specify,
> or from a sender who is in a particular Group (which might be a group "Junk"
> you've made of contacts to whom you've assigned the Junk category). One of
> the actions you ca add, as well as moving the messages to he Junk folder, is
> to also give them Junk category, although that's pretty redundant under the
> circumstances. But using Junk category of the sender (or of a group to whom
> the sender belongs) is a useful way to use Junk category.
>
> If this is too confusing, you could always change the name of your junk
> category to Garbage. ;-) But Junk STATUS ("Is Junk") is defined by the Junk
> filter, not by you, and can't be changed, just adjusted by the slider in the
> Junk Filter window.
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