Paul
Wed Jun 09 11:12:15 CDT 2004
On 6/9/04 8:22 AM, in article BCECE9DA.18E21%barry@mvps.org.INVALID, "Barry
Wainwright" <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
> On 9/6/04 2:39 pm, in article 090620040954346751%kgibson2001@hotmail.com,
> "Kevin" <kgibson2001@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have this odd thing that's bugged me for a long time. I'm using
>> Entourage 2001 on OS 9.2.2. One of the categories I have defined in my
>> address book is "Dogs." (I have a dog, do paintings of dogs, and have a
>> lot of dog-related friends.)
>>
>> I do not have Junk mail filtering on at all.
>>
>> Whenever I get a message from one of my friends that is part of the
>> Dogs category, Entourage displays a note that "This message appears to
>> be junk mail." If I click on the "This is not junk mail" link next to
>> it, it removes the Dog categorization from that message.
>>
>> Why on earth would Entourage be sensitive to any category label that
>> I've defined for people that it recognizes are in my address book. Dogs
>> is the only category where this happens. I assume if I did turn junk
>> mail filtering on that they'd get filtered?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Kevin
>>
>> --
>
> Messages from people in your address book should never be marked as junk,
>
> ...unless, the address book entry also has a junk category (possibly as a
>
> secondary category??)
>
> Failing that, I would look for a mail rule that is marking that category
> junk.
>
> Or,
>
> Did you rename the junk category as 'Dogs'? - you shouldn't do that. The
> junk category is 'special' and is identified internally by it's ID, not by
> it's name, so if you have renamed it, anything assigned to that category
> will be viewed by Entourage as Junk.
That's precisely what must have happened here - the built-in Junk category
(which can't be deleted) has been renamed to "Dogs" (which probably also
shouldn't be possible, but I guess MS is catering for people who want to
call "Spam" or something more unpleasant).
In Edit/Categories/Edit Categories, rename Dogs category back to Junk, then
create a new Dogs category. Then in your Address Book, sort by Category
(click the column header) to get all your Junk contacts (as they now will
appear) together. Shift-click top and bottom to select them all.
Command-click any contacts who have other categories as well to deselect
these - you'll have to do those separately. With the Junk-only contacts
selected, either go to Edit/Categories/Assign Categories, uncheck "Junk" and
check "Dogs", or just click somewhere in the category column of a selected
contact, select Dogs, then repeat and deselect Junk. use the latter
technique individually on the contacts with multiple categories. And you're
done.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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