Thanks for the answer Paul.

Maybe Dan and company can add this to the wish list like Barry suggested.

Russ Carr

on 12/18/01 12:35 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 12/18/01 12:20 AM, "Russell Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> on 12/17/01 3:16 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/17/01 2:50 PM, "Mike Zyda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I am using Entourage for OS X. I know how to specify Rules to filter my
>>>> email and I have the Junk mail filter turned on. What I would LOVE to have
>>>> as an option is a SINGLE BUTTON or SCRIPT that says "all future email from
>>>> the selected email message's domain is junk and should be deleted".
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's against the law for Microsoft to provide that. (They were sued, or
>>> someone was, a few years ago.)  You can do it yourself with a rule. That's
>>> what they're for.
>>> 
>> Huh?
>> Outlook 2000 (for Windows) has just this feature. There is a menu item that
>> lets you identify a particular e-mail as Junk and instructs Outlook to treat
>> all future e-mails from that individual (?, I don't know all its criteria)
>> as Junk mail. I use this feature to filter out mass mailers from department
>> sectaries, system administrators and corporate offices from the real work
>> e-mails I get.
>> 
> 
> Yes, you can do that (mark as Junk). But you can't _delete_ it without a
> specific direction. What Microsoft - or any email program like Eudora -
> isn't allowed to do is automatically delete anything they determine is Junk,
> without your directing it to do so. And in Entourage you can also set any
> future mail from a particular sender as Junk. Yes, it takes two more steps:
> 
> 1) Go to Tool --> Rules --> POP (or IMAP) Rules
> 
> 2) Select your Junk rule and Double-click it open.
> 
> 3) Click the Add Criterion button.
> 
> If you do this while a message from the spammer is in the front, you'll find
> that clicking "Add Criterion" by default is set to "From" "Contains"
> "Spammer's email address". You don't have  to change any popups or copy or
> paste anything. All that is done. You just have to click OK.
> 
> You could even have your Rules window always open, so all you have to do is
> click in it, and save step 1.


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