Re: Does Entourage 2004 Junk E-Mail filter have learning capability?

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Does Entourage 2004 Junk E-Mail filter have learning capability?

On or near 6/13/04 1:06 AM, Kirk McElhearn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> One thing the junk filter does nothing against is spam sent "from" my e-mail
> address. The problem with the exclusive setting is that it only looks at
> from addresses and your contact list, but there is tons of spam that has
> forged addresses.

Yes, that's a type that has become common since the filter was produced. I hope it will be added in a near-future update. Meanwhile, I set up a rule that runs an AppleScript if "From is Me":

    set myNames to {"Allen Watson", "Allen A Watson"}
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    
    -- get the currently selected message
    set selectedMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
    set theName to display name of sender of selectedMessage
    if theName is not in myNames then
        set category of selectedMessage to {category "Junk"}
        set storage of selectedMessage to folder "Junk E-mail"
        set read status of selectedMessage to read
    end if
end tell

Since “From is Me” matches the e-mail address of the sender, which is spoofed as me, this rule fires only when incoming mail is from one of my addresses, which means it has minimal impact on valid mail. If the display name of the sender isn’t also me (which occurs when I send myself mail for some reason), the message gets marked as junk, marked as read, and moved to the Junk E-mail folder.

Obviously, you would need to edit the first line to list your own display name or names. Make sure it remains a list even if it has only one item.