Thank you for your reply Diane.

Perhaps I should elaborate - the third party product sits between the
Internet and our Exchange 2003 Server (ie not on the PC's running Outlook),
in which case it would be possible to manipulate the message before it gets
'inside' the email system. Does that have any bearing on the issue? Might
Microsoft consider this as a feature request if it cannot be done currently?

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

no, it's not possible to 'trigger' the junk filter for testing, except by
receiving new mail. you can certainly make a rule to delete anything with
[spam] or whatever in the subject line or header.

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"Chris Green" wrote in message
...
Due to a huge increase in junk mail in the past few weeks I have
configured a
third-party product as a spam filter. It works well, but to get it to play
happily with Outlook it seems necessary to create a rule for every mailbox
so
that a particular header is checked, then the spam that would have escaped
the default junk mail filtering is moved to the Junk E-mail folder.

Assuming I can add headers and prefix the subject line, is there a way I
can
make Outlook 2003 SP2 recognise mail as spam and have it trigger the
normal
junk mail filter? I imagine that for testing purposes there is such a
feature
built in.