Albert wrote:
As opposed to it currently being the first thing to run when mail
arrives, would be nice to give users the flexibility to run some of
their own rules first.

I couldn't agree more. There are some mail items that I definitely want
to process before the Junk Mail filter; stuff that I know isn't junk,
and stuff that I'm so certain about I can delete it without ever seeing
it. In the latter category I would include mail formatted in a character
set that I cannot read. Even if it came from god, it's still junk if I
cannot read the characters!

The mail rules used to run before the junk filter, but got moved
afterwards by one of the updates.

Of course, if I could write rules that ran on stuff in the Junk Mail
folder then I'd be happy.

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Steve Swift
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