On or near 6/18/02 12:51 PM, Jeff Forte at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 6/18/02 10:24 AM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> 2. Set up a rule (or multiple rules) that automatically files incoming mail >>> from your address book and/or group/s into your in box or any folder you >>> want >>> and set an action to change the status to "not junk mail." >> >> I don't get this one. If the incoming message is from someone in your >> address book, it is automatically "not junk mail." Why would you need a >> rule to do this?
I think the idea here is to specifically act on "known good" stuff (with a rule that disables additional rules) before your "junk mail" rules operate on anything. Thus, if the JMF (which runs before all the rules) somehow marks a message as junk that should not be marked, these special rules will undo the JMF's action, and prevent any further junk mail rules from affecting the message. Thus: 1. JMF marks messages as junk, including a few that should not be so marked. 2. user-specific rules turn off the junk category and move matching messages to special folders, inhibiting any futher rule action. 3. Remaining messages are then processed by user-written "junk mail" rules. Important thing is NOT to set any junk filter rules that automatically delete stuff. Instead, move messages to a "junk" folder, which you peruse every now and then to rescue messages that do not belong. I typically find two or three such orphans each week. Often, these are from a friend who is announcing a change of E-mail address (and therefore their address doesn't match my Address Book), or a confirmation or shipping info for a purchase I made on a website...something like that. -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
