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29 Jun 2020, 11:04 AM | #1 |
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"Mark as Read" in Rules not working
I have a few rules setup that call for certain specific domains to be marked as read and sent to spam. The good part is they are all sent to spam. The bad? None are marked as read.
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29 Jun 2020, 06:03 PM | #2 |
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I would suggest going back and rechecking that rule to see if you actually did set the flag to "mark as read".
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30 Jun 2020, 10:58 AM | #3 |
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The first item, "Mark as Read", is most definitely checked for all the rules where I have "Send to Spam" also checked.
Hmm.. I was planning to upload a screenshot of one rule here but apparently that is not permitted. Thanks! Jim |
30 Jun 2020, 12:49 PM | #4 |
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Can't duplicate issue
I can not duplicate your issue as reported. The message is properly marked as read. My guess is that you have some side effect produced by one of:
When I uncheck "Mark as read", the messages arrive as expected as unread (bold). Bill |
30 Jun 2020, 12:49 PM | #5 |
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30 Jun 2020, 08:52 PM | #6 | |
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Try temporarily changing the rule(s) that you think are processing these mails and have it instead move the mails to a specific folder, invented just for this. If new mails still end up in Spam, then it's not the rule you think, that did it Another possibility is if some of the generic spam-scoring rules (if you've turned them on, or not turned them off) are moving the mails.. |
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1 Jul 2020, 03:36 AM | #7 |
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Check that you have "mark as read" under spam settings.
If you use a rule to send email from certain domains to spam, it will get trained in SpamAssassin's Bayes, and in FM's reputation database. Eventually such mail will likely go to spam without reaching your rule. Discarding to Spam is potentially harmful if it 's not out-and-out spam because of it's effect on Bayes. |
1 Jul 2020, 11:13 AM | #8 |
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I think that perhaps these messages have finally been recognized as spam and therefore being sent to the Spam folder before the rules are acted upon, as mentioned by Jeremy and Sideshow Bob above.
BTW, I am not just discarding these to spam recklessly; though I've never subscribed to or visited these websites, I receive an average of seven messages from them daily. I consider that to be spam. When these started appearing they always were received in my Inbox. However I did just notice that they now have a spam score of 10+. SO they are apparently going directly to spam before the rules can be applied. Is there a way to have these marked as read now? Thanks! Jim |
1 Jul 2020, 11:18 AM | #9 |
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1 Jul 2020, 01:24 PM | #10 |
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Just to be clear here I interpreted your original post as you created a rule (or rules) to test for certain domains and if matched to send those messages to spam and marked as read. In other words the checkboxes for the actual rule in the rules then actions were "mark as read" and "send to spam". It was that "Mark as read" checkbox I was referring to, not the Spam Protections "Mark spam as read".
So if you now checked Spam Protections "Mark spam as read" and it is "working" now that tells me those messages were (are) always being classed as spam and never using your rule(s). I base that on the fact that clicking "Mark spam as read" in Spam Protections only adds the "read" flag where spam score is checked in the sieve code and that takes place before your rules are applied (determined by comparing the sieve code with and without that checkbox checked). If you now have "Mark spam as read" in Spam Protections then all spam will be marked as read. If that's what you want, fine. But non-spam, i.e., messages that reach the rules would still need their rule's own "mark as read" as one of their actions. Last edited by xyzzy : 1 Jul 2020 at 01:37 PM. |
2 Jul 2020, 11:35 PM | #11 |
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They have that. The issue was that he had created rules that send mail to the spam folder and mark it as read, but the mail was being caught by the spam handling sieve before it could reach his rules.
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3 Jul 2020, 01:57 AM | #12 |
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