Deleting Unwanted Emails in Microsoft Outlook. Offered as Advice.

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This is more of a comment in case anyone in the community wants to know.
I was having a problem from continually getting emails that offered no new information but simply contained boilerplate telling me that my message had been received. When I sent another message saying do not bother me any more, I got another boilerplate confirmation.
I created a Rule in Microsoft Outlook 2010 (example: Move messages from someone like [email protected] to the junk folder and then delete it). That has always worked before in similar situations, but the emails kept coming through to my Inbox. Then I realized that the default in outlook was set to run the rule on messages IN the junk folder, but the message was coming into the Inbox. As soon as I changed it to run on messages from the sender in the Inbox, voila! no more annoying messages. I don't know how I could have missed such a simple thing.
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johnpaulb-imhs1
Hello whodunit, Thank you for sharing this helpful advice about deleting unwanted emails in Microsoft Outlook. Feel free to post in our User Submitted section. If you have any further questions, feel free to post them below. Thank you, John-Paul