Hi Laurie, first of all I wish you good recovery after your throat surgery!
nomis1934 wrote:Tried to forward those messages being held on the server to a different address. POCO still would not receive them even with nothing in filters.
Was there some error message in the log right after checking the new mail when you were expecting the messages to arrive?
You can try to use menu File > Fiew Mail on Server, or Online Folders (usually at the bottom of the message tree) to get a view of messages located on the server and attempt to download them individually.
If you have the message on the server, please try to save it to .eml or .msg or at worst to .txt format (any format that's not just text but contains full raw message) and submit through
http://pocosystems.com/support/ for a check.
Tomas, you state that we shouldn't use these filters to stop spam!
Yes that's because it makes filters a mess - hundreds of rules where one get easily lost in. Also it's a too much work with too little results, a fight that never ends.
I'd suggest dedicated antispam filter. SpamBayes works perfectly for me. I can even help setting it up, or suggest some other alternatives, any specialized antispam will be much better than using filters.
Spam is out of control to me again even with junk set maximum. Junk filters didn't help so I was taking a specific word from entire message, the headers or body's and "preformed DELETE." That worked perfectly, Today I just realized that "pre-download" should be the area where these should be placed. So maybe I was wrong placing these filters in the "Incoming" and possibly causing the filters to "max out".
pre-download filters don't have access to the message body, only to the headers