I continued the experiment. Adding the "Is not junk e-mail" criteria to the rule did the trick. With both the "Account Is" and "Is not junk e-mail" criteria set junk e-mail went to where the JMF sent it, list messages went to where the MLM said and others went to where the rule sent them.
Russ on 12/15/04 9:45 PM, Russell Carr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rod, > I did an experiment and found that you are correct. Rules applied directly > to an account (i.e.. Criteria is an account) will in fact move all incoming > mail into the specified folder, even identified and marked Junk Mail. > Snip > Or maybe just adding the "Is not junk e-mail" criteria to > your existing account rules will be all you need. > > > on 12/15/04 8:34 PM, Rod D. Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> The question is, why does it work on the inbox but not on the folders (and >>> since I realize the old emails are now stripped away, the deal is this: a >>> rule shifts all email which comes to several particular email accounts into >>> their own separate "inbox" folders), and how to fix that? >>> >>> Rod Martin >> >> I will admit that I didn't especially expect a response to this email, but >> I'll also admit that it's disappointing I didn't receive one, not least >> because it's clear JMF is not working in the manner stated by MS >> representatives right here on this list this week. >> >> I'll give you the scenario again. I have multiple POP accounts coming into >> Entourage 2004. Several of them receive in excess of 100 real emails (as >> opposed to junk) per day. Because of this, and because of the distinct >> nature of the accounts, I used a pair of rules to divert anything which goes >> to several of these accounts to two special folders, and I use these as >> separate "inboxes". >> >> The problem is that the Junk Mail Filter does not work on those folders at >> all. Not "just a little", but at all. And I can check these accounts from >> the server through my web-based interface and count the number of spam >> messages in those accounts and then count what shows up in Entourage to >> confirm this (contrary to what Paul indicated above about the "Low" level of >> protection), that in fact the JMF doesn't work on those folders AT ALL. >> >> Just to try to follow counsel as well as possible, I *did* do as Paul >> (somewhat derisively) suggested and raised the level of protection to >> "High". This did result (as I said it would, and as it has done in the >> past) in my losing a lot more "real" emails to the junk folder. It added no >> protection to my main inbox (which was getting excellent coverage from the >> "Low" setting already), and it also failed to add even the slightest extra >> coverage to the added folders. JMF does not work on them at all. >> >> So once again, the question is why this is so and what I can do about it. >> And if, as was suggested earlier, that maybe diverting these accounts to >> their folders by using the Mailing List Manager instead would help, how can >> I set that up where it will divert *everything* from the specified accounts >> -- but nothing else!!! -- to the proper folders, since these are POP >> accounts, not lists? >> >> I'm frustrated, but I do appreciate everyone's help. >> >> Rod Martin >> >> > -- 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/>
