Boolean spam rules

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Been using Outlook Express for years, and had some spam rules I wanted to
translate into Outlook mail (Office 2003).

I want a rule that says "Send any messages from any people/email addresses
NOT IN my AddressBook to Folder "Review"

Basically... a Whitelist.

In Outlook Express, there was an "Advanced" button in the rule builder
wizard (in the select people for this rule section) that allowed you to
"reverse" the logic.

"Where From Line DOES NOT Contain...addresses"
instead of...
"Where From Line DOES Contain... addresses.

How is this done in Outlook? I can't find anywhere where I can invert my
rule logic.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Al Camp
Candia, NH
 
Easiest method is to right click on any message and select Junk Email, then
the Options button at the bottom. You can set your rules to automatically
include your contacts as safe senders and also set your level for junk
filtering.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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| Been using Outlook Express for years, and had some spam rules I
| wanted to translate into Outlook mail (Office 2003).
|
| I want a rule that says "Send any messages from any people/email
| addresses NOT IN my AddressBook to Folder "Review"
|
| Basically... a Whitelist.
|
| In Outlook Express, there was an "Advanced" button in the rule builder
| wizard (in the select people for this rule section) that allowed you
| to "reverse" the logic.
|
| "Where From Line DOES NOT Contain...addresses"
| instead of...
| "Where From Line DOES Contain... addresses.
|
| How is this done in Outlook? I can't find anywhere where I can
| invert my rule logic.
|
| Thanks for any help in advance.
|
| Al Camp
| Candia, NH
 
Microsoft Newsgroups said in
Been using Outlook Express for years, and had some spam rules I
wanted to translate into Outlook mail (Office 2003).

I want a rule that says "Send any messages from any people/email
addresses NOT IN my AddressBook to Folder "Review"

Basically... a Whitelist.

In Outlook Express, there was an "Advanced" button in the rule builder
wizard (in the select people for this rule section) that allowed you
to "reverse" the logic.

"Where From Line DOES NOT Contain...addresses"
instead of...
"Where From Line DOES Contain... addresses.

How is this done in Outlook? I can't find anywhere where I can
invert my rule logic.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Al Camp
Candia, NH
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Apply this rule after receiving the message
Move to "Review" folder
except if sender is in "Contacts" Outlook Address Book
[stop processing more rules]

The above isn't verbatim, but just what I recall. Only include the stop
clause if you don't want any further processing exercised by subsequent
rules on those left in your Inbox or those that got moved. All message
get moved unless the sender is known (i.e. listed in your Contacts
folder). Obviously your Contacts folder needs to be configured to be
included in your Outlook Address Book (which isn't an address book
itself but a container to hold all contact-type folders that have been
configured to be included).

If you have more than one contacts folder that you want to include in
the rule, Microsoft does not permit you to specify more than one
contact-type folder per rule. If you have N contact-type folders
included in the Outlook Address Book (right-click on the contact-type
folder, Properties, Outlook Address Book tab, enable the option to
include it), you will need multiple rules, as in:

.... (any whitelisting rules) ...

Apply this rule after receiving the message
sender is in "Contacts" Outlook Address Book
stop processing more rules

Apply this rule after receiving the message
sender is in "OtherContacts" Outlook Address Book
stop processing more rules

.... (repeat for each contact-type folder) ...

.... (other processing rules that might delete messages) ...

Apply this rule after receiving the message
move to "Review" folder
[stop processing more rules]
 
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