I have recently switched my mail client from MS Outlook 2007 to MS Windows Live Mail. Ever since NIS 2011 dose not block mail from senders I wish mail to be blocked. I have tried "Add sender to blocked sender list" as well as "Add senders domain to blocked sender list", to no evail, their mail is gettin into my Inbox rather than into the Junkk mail box.
Am I doing something wrong, or is NIS 2011 not compatible with Windows Live Mail?
I have recently switched my mail client from MS Outlook 2007 to MS Windows Live Mail. Ever since NIS 2011 dose not block mail from senders I wish mail to be blocked. I have tried "Add sender to blocked sender list" as well as "Add senders domain to blocked sender list", to no evail, their mail is gettin into my Inbox rather than into the Junkk mail box.
Am I doing something wrong, or is NIS 2011 not compatible with Windows Live Mail?
Just to clarify -- when you say "blocked" do you mean never downloaded from your ISP or do you mean, as I think AllenM has assumed, that it is not sorted into the Junk folder?
To be honest I don't know whether Norton can stop the download ....
I understand that Norton cannot prevent the downloading of the messages in question to my Mail Client, I just want them to be filed in the Junk Folder, as they used to be with Outlook 2007.
I don't normally use Windows Live Mail but I do have it set up on my test laptop which is where I done the testing. However it turns out that I have Windows Live Mail 2009 on my Windows 7 laptop.
So I done a bit more research and found the following link which talks about how to set up message rules in the 2011 version.
I went ahead and updated my live mail to 2011 version and it is just as my previous link shows. From the Folders tab you can click on Message rules and the rest should be as I mentioned in my original post.
OK Then what the link given does is what I do -- Open the Folders toolbar and select Message Rules then create one based on Subject contains Norton AntiSpam and Move to Junk and save it.
You can then use Apply Now but if you check out this thread which I started on the WLM Forum
You will see that it has some peculiarities. As I've said, I Browse and select the Inbox instead of Storage Folders and then it works on any that were left in the InBox but if you've been moving or deleting them manually then no need. In future it will filter the incoming mail into the Junk Folder
I wish I understood the bit about Storage Folders so if you do please put me out of my misery!
I have read the suggested thread, but as you I do not understand the purpose of the Storage folders. I too assumed that folders/files transferred from other mail clients would reside there, as that is where my file structure was copied to.
I have my many of my folders under my Inbox and copied all the old files to these folders.
Now when I create a message rule to have certain message moved into a particular folder, the default folder is my main mail folder ( one above my Inbox folder), but I can easily move/designate any folder in my folder structure.
BTW I agree that WLM would benefit from a user manual or good help system.
I think we are both on the same page with the same kind of installation.
When/If you use the Apply Now you can apply it to any folder if you know that that is where the messages you want moved are located including to the Inbox if you think there may be some that are there.
Or you can apply it to the Root ISP line in the tree and it will then go through every folder -- including however the Junk folder so it better be empty unless you think something might have gone there by mistake and not been seen by you.. I have done this sometimes when say setting up a new rule to deal with something rom the past that might have been filtered or manually moved.
If it has been filtered somewhere by an existing rule and you are keeping that rule unmodified then you need to use the Move Up / Move Down control on the first Email Rules screen after selecting the rule so that you can place the new rule before the old one ... if you see what I mean.
I do have a bunch of folders for mail including one for eamil advisories from here that give me the links to new messages as well as for different parts of my scattered family, Computer advertising, Technical Information, Bank and Credit card email, Community library reminders ......
And like you I guess I have the folders that Windows Easy Transfer brought across not all of which I recreated.