Ah, that would explain it. I've always assumed that WM would see my rules
and understand that if a message matches any of them, I'm implicitly
declaring it legitimate mail. I have another email program whose junk mail
filter is simply another rule, and I just make that rule my LAST one. Works
perfectly: if a message doesn't meet any of these rules, then it's junk.
That algorithm seems more logical to me.

I subscribe to a number of email listservs, often on yahoogroups, and I'd
like to route messages from them to special folders. They come in to me
with a unique email address in the TO: field such as
'groupname@yahoogroups.com'. The FROM field could be anyone, but I still
want the message routed to my special folder. I should be able to have a
rule based on the TO field kick in before WM looks at the FROM field,
doesn't recognize the sender, and declares it junk! There's no way I can
put every member of all my email groups in my approved sender list--I don't
know them all and don't want to!

Thanks for any thoughts.