What Happened to MS Outlook?

"Even I have tagged them as Junk E-mail previously (repeatedly)."

Maybe you are confusing it.

Not really!

It's happening. Say, I received an e-mail from spammer A yesterday, tagged this one as Junk E-mail (by selecting "Add Sender to Blocked Senders List"), expecting the next time I receive, it should go to the Junk E-mail folder (as has been happening before the said update). But not this time, it still goes to my Inbox. So what I do is tag the email from same spammer A again hoping that next time it will go to Junk E-mail folder, but to my surprise, it still going to my Inbox. And I'm not talking about just a single spam e-mail. Right now, all my emails (legitimate and spam) are "destined" to the Inbox folder of MS Outlook.

Hope this explains (and not to confuse) more about what I'm experiencing right now.

I am not really serious about the confusing!

I am not sure why your outlook behave that way. A coder/programmer sometime bypass certain functions to enable testing and development of other functions.

It is just possible that the product was shipped without removing the bypass.

The function may also depend on a system DLL with the incorrect version present in your computer.

Contact your suppliers.

Thanks Hendrik,

The update was downloaded from Microsoft's Download Center. I may hold on to this month's upcoming updates and see what will happen.

out look itself is junk.we were baned using out look through a corporate directive when i was working with caterpillar in all their facilities world wide.

crm

Update:

After some struggle with OGA*(Office Genuine Authentication???) I finally downloaded and applied the Update for Outlook Junk Email Filter 2003 (KB942571) today.

It's a relief, MS Outlook seems to be back to "normal" again and is now able to sort out junk-emails.

*OGA has given me a real "nerve" today when I download the update file from my computer. My legal copy of MS Office 2003 is now accused of being not genuine, where in fact it was authenticated genuine prior to the update that caused the problem. Anyway, I successfully downloaded the update file using another machine to my surprise was not even prompted by OGA. So things with MS are really getting scrambled or mixed-up (to my experience).

Thank you CR4 for sharing your comments, suggestions and ideas.

Does anybody know if or how Outlook can block an e-mail from a particular sender? I mean really do a Blocked Send - the e-mail doesn't go to junk mail, it just dissappears or gets bounced back to the sender with an error message. Preferably one I compose. I've checked Help in the program and online and I can't find this. Thanx -

jhammond

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Yes outlook can block specific addresses/emails.

In the "tools" menu in the main or front outlook page, choose "Rules and Alerts". The system will walk you thru rule making. Just take that email name and send it to the trash or any other folder.

Thanks Crow! I hadn't seen that - lots of options there. Now I have blocked ongoing political diatribes I've been getting from this one guy. He doesn't seem to get that his free speech allows him to stand on a street corner and scream his head off, but not stand under my bedroom window and do it. Likewise, he can post his screed on all manner of message boards to get his therapy, but is not free to invade my PC after being told cease and desist. Problem solved, appreciate it.

Chow

jhammond

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Try Thunderbird from Mozilla.

I switched over about 3 years ago and never looked back.

Transfering all my mail and addresses was easy and it tells me whenever it needs updating.

I do miss some of the calender functions in outlook though...