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PeterG - 21 Sep 2004 12:37 GMT

Various emails, which are NOT junk, arrive in the junk folder -without any
junk rating against them- and despite me using menu -> message/ Not Junk (or
cmd/alt J) they just continue to get collected by the junk folder. Because
some of them are mailing lists (which I don't often reply to) I do not wish
to, unless I really have to, add them to the address book.

Any suggestions/ ideas (other than re-setting my preferences)? If I did
re-set the preferences do I lose the personality details? [I am aware about
collecting the x-settings to an email "Insert System Configuration"]

macintosh G4; OSX 10.3.5; 466MHz; 896 Mb SDRAM; Eudora (paid mode) V6.1.1.

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James Meiss - 22 Sep 2004 01:09 GMT

> Various emails, which are NOT junk, arrive in the junk folder -without any
> junk rating against them- and despite me using menu -> message/ Not Junk (or
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> Any suggestions/ ideas (other than re-setting my preferences)?

I guess you've looked over your filters and made sure none of them has a
"move to Junk" as its action?

> If I did
> re-set the preferences do I lose the personality details?

You'd loose it all. But I think that your junk dictionary is not
contained in the Eudora Settings file, but in a separate file called

~/Documents/Eudora Folder/Eudora Items/Plugins/SpamWatch/UserJunkDB.txt

If you think that file has gotten messed up (it is just text, and it is
fun in a perverse sort of way to peruse to see what words are marked as
junk words), you could move it to the desktop and try training SpamWatch
again.

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PeterG - 22 Sep 2004 09:00 GMT

>> Various emails, which are NOT junk, arrive in the junk folder -without any
>> junk rating against them- and despite me using menu -> message/ Not Junk
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> I guess you've looked over your filters and made sure none of them has a
> "move to Junk" as its action?

I have certain 'Move to Junk" filters but have placed them in a different
order to see if that helps.

>> If I did
>> re-set the preferences do I lose the personality details?
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>> /Documents/Eudora Folder/Eudora Items/Plugins/SpamWatch/UserJunkDB.txt

Thanks; didn't know that.

> If you think that file has gotten messed up (it is just text, and it is
> fun in a perverse sort of way to peruse to see what words are marked as
> junk words), you could move it to the desktop and try training SpamWatch
> again.

Thanks for your advice. I'll see what happens - fingers crossed.

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Sander Tekelenburg - 23 Sep 2004 00:22 GMT

> >> Various emails, which are NOT junk, arrive in the junk folder -without any
> >> junk rating against them [...]
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> I have certain 'Move to Junk" filters but have placed them in a different
> order to see if that helps.

No need to make things harder than necessary. Open your Junk mailbox,
select 1 of the mesfiled messages, hold the Shift key and from the
Window menu select Filters. The ones that would have acted upon the
message will be hilited.

(Although now that you've changed their order that may give you
different results.)

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PeterG - 24 Sep 2004 21:07 GMT

>>>> Various emails, which are NOT junk, arrive in the junk folder -without
>>>> any
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> (Although now that you've changed their order that may give you
> different results.)

Thanks I had forgotten about the Shift key thingy.

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