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November 19th 06, 09:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Ty
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How do I automatically delete new junk mail?
I think everyone is missing what the poster is asking.
I don't read his question as wanting to automatically delete any email that
Outlook deems as 'junk' email. I think he is asking that, in Outlook 2003 you
can select an email, and in the 'Actions' menu under 'Junk Email Options' you
can select 'add to junk senders list'. When doing this, I agree that it would
be nice if there was a way to also delete this email at the same time rather
than selecting email, navigating to 'add to junk senders list' and then
having to hit delete (or shift+delete and then enter to confirm).
Even better would be to have a hot key (like ctrl+J) that would add to junk
sender list and delete.
The fact that it is manually being added to the junk list kind of confirms
that the sender does not want the email. In fact, I remember creating or
having a button that would do exactly what I describe above.
"Vanguard (NPI)" wrote:
"K in MD" K in
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When I mark new email as junk mail I want to have it automatically
deleted.
I have not figured out a way to do that with the rules wizard--only
previously identified junk is automatically deleted after setting up the
rule.
You are the only person in the entire world that as a 100% perfect spam
filter. Everyone else gets to use one that might generate false positives
(i.e., good mail that gets tagged as spam). A safer solution would be:
- Set auto-archive on the Junk folder to permanently delete after 1 day.
- Enable the global auto-archive function, and set to run every 1 day. If
you leave this set to its default of running every 14 days, the 1-day old
crap sitting in your Junk folder will accumulate until the auto-archive
function is ran every 2 weeks (i.e., you'll have 2 weeks of junk instead of
just one day's worth). The scheduled interval for Auto-Archive should be
equal to the shortest auto-archive interval you configure for your folders
(or as short as the global interval if that is all you use).
- Turn OFF the Preview pane for the Junk folder.
- Enable AutoPreview on the Junk folder (shows first few lines of an item
but only as plain-text).
- Use OL2003's junk filtering or something better, like SpamPal, to move
suspect items tagged as spam into the Junk folder.
- Optionally configure whatever rule moves the mail into the Junk folder to
also mark it as read (in case you don't want to see that folder bolded when
new suspect mails arrive).
Then, when you get an e-mail that you are expecting, you can recover from
your setup tagging it as spam because you'll have a day to grab it out of
the Junk folder. Say you order something online and they send you a copy of
the purchase order in an e-mail. Often these get tagged as spam, but you
really do want a copy to keep for your records, especially if it is
downloaded software with instructions and codes needed to download it again
if you lose your copy or it gets corrupted. Same for any e-mails sent by
family and friends that happen to get falsely tagged as spam. Maybe Mom
goes to DisneyWorld and sends you a greeting mail from Epcot but it gets
detected as spam.
All anti-spam mechanisms produce false positives, even C-R
(challenge-response) schemes. Do you really want to permanently delete it
and have no way to recover it? Move it into the Junk folder, optionally
mark it as read, and automatically delete the junk after a day.
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