Are you absolutely sure that you have no Rule anywhere which moves messages
to your Junk folder when they have the criterion
Is junk
? That would move messages with category "None" whose Junk status has been
set by the filter.
In General Preferences / Address Book, you'll find a preference:
Automatically match message categories to senders' categories. I think it
may even be checked by default. Are you also absolutely sure that you have
_never_ had any contacts with "Junk" category? maybe as a way of excluding
them from your Most-recently-Used drop-down list in the recipient address
box/ Messages received at that time would be marked junk even if they were
in your regular Inbox or another folder. Now applying your rule would have
moved them to Junk folder.
If you can honestly answer No to both questions, there may be a bug. But
I've never come across this one before on any mailing list or newsgroup.
--
Paul Berkowitz
> From: Jim Warthman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:07:25 -0700
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Berkowitz
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Error: "Category is Junk"
>
> 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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