I sent an email to myself from another email address with www<dot>topica<dot>com in the body of the email.

Straight into my Inbox, no junking.

Wonder if it's when that URL is in the email header, from address or similar that causes the junking?

Bang goes that idea then .

Try forwarding one of the TTF emails NOT as an attchment to yourself. It will be coming from you instead of topica<dot>com so it should not have topica<dot>com in the headers, but they will remain as links in the body.

Does it get Junked upon arrival?

Edited by XRaySpeX (Mon 27-Oct-14 23:49:39)

I've been hampered in investigating this further cuz I think my, and possibly your, email servers are dropping constructed similar spam emails or changing their contents. Perhaps they are MS Exchange servers as they seem to be following the same spam filter rules as MS Outlook.

However, basically I think what is happening to you is that Outlook's junk mail filter is placing these spam into your Junk folder as they contain links pointing at topica<dot>com.

OL does not apply your own rules to these junked mail that it has already found.

I cannot say why you can't test apply your rules to the Junk folder manually as I've only ever seen rules applied to the Inbox ('apply rule after msg arrives') and OE, which I'm using, does not have that facility.

[Replying to myself for convenience]

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

...I'm wary of unsubscribing in case that merely confirms my email address to this bunch of spammers.

I decided to bite the bullet on this and did unsubscribe a week ago. No emails from them since