From the Desk of Janet Barclay

July 11, 2007

The Ongoing Battle Against SPAM

I’m still in love with Outlook, but I have one pet peeve…

The Junk Mail filter is relatively effective. I still have to check my Junk Mail folder daily to make sure it hasn’t flagged something incorrectly, but I can live with that. What annoys me is that when a spam message doesn’t get caught, and I click on "block sender," it then sends the message to the Junk Mail folder. Which means that unless I check my Junk Mail folder BEFORE my Inbox (which almost defeats the purpose of having it), I have to review those same messages twice.

You can set your preferences so that all messages flagged as Junk are automatically deleted, but I don’t want to do that, for the reason stated above. But I think if I manually flag a message as Junk, it should go directly to the Deleted folder, and not to the Junk folder. If there is a way to do this, please let me know, because I haven’t been able to find one!

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