Outlook rule - for junk email

[neveu]

hello,
i would need help in creating a rule that automatically forwards every email in the junk folder to a specific adress (there is a project to block all email marked as junk and for this we have to forward the junk email to a specific adress). in addition, i would need to permanently delete the junk email after it's beeing forwarded - also from junk email folder and from sent items folder.

can anyone advise?

thank you in advance,
neveu

 

[JP2112]

I'm using Outlook 2003, and according to Microsoft,

"Rules are now designed so that they do not act on messages that are moved to the Junk E-mail folder. "

So you cannot use a rule for this. What you need is a macro to periodically (i.e. manually) go through the junk folder and forward messages to the other address, then delete the email and delete the sent item.

To forward the item, set an object reference and then call the Forward Method. To delete the item from your Sent Items folder, set the DeleteAfterSubmit Property to True before sending the item. To delete the item itself, call the Delete Method after sending it. Of course, because you are deleting items from a folder you would want to step backwards through the folder.

Also, although it's none of my business what you do with messages that end up in your Junk folder, but I feel obligated to state that some of them might be emails you want. The Junk folder is for more than just known spam. If you have Outlook set up in 'whitelist' mode, ANY emails from previously unknown senders will go into the Junk email folder. Blocking a sender simply because they end up there wouldn't make sense.

 

[neveu]

Hy JP,

thank you for your reply. unfortunatly I'm not at all experience with macros - do you think you could help me find a convient macro on the internet that would do whta i need?

the junk settings are set to low - so up to now in 99% of the cases i have recieved only spam in my junk folder.

thank you, looking forward for your reply

best regards,
neveu