JoeM said:
I would like to auto delete any emails that contain my name in the bcc. How
can I set this up?
Newsletters, bulletins, notices, or confirmation e-mails (sent after you
start a signup at a web site) may not have your e-mail address in the To/Cc
fields. Those fields are NOT used to specify the recipient of an e-mail.
Those are headers within the *data* of your message.
The headers of a received e-mail should never have a Bcc header. That means
you can never test on that header's value because the header doesn't exist.
You have to test based on the absence of yourself in the To and Cc headers.
You can define a rule that deletes or moves all e-mails except those with
your e-mail address on the To or Cc headers. That means all the
aforementioned types of e-mails will end up getting deleted (or whatever
action you commit in your rule).
You could have the rule move those matching e-mails into your Junk folder
and then use auto-archiving on your Junk folder to permanently delete items
over, say, 3 days old. You'll probably find lots of false positives over
the next few months and realize that you wanted those e-mails and are glad
you didn't [permanently] delete them. For some, you could add them to your
Safe Senders list (or to your Contacts list and enable the option to include
your contacts with the safe senders). For others, those e-mails are a
one-time only event so there would be no point in whitelisting them.
You could also have the rule assign a "Not to me" category to a matching
e-mail and then use a customized view with a rule that looks for e-mails
with that category and then colorizes them (uses a different or same font
and with a different background color). If you use categories in various
rules to assign them to your e-mails, I would suggest adding the Category
column to the view in your Inbox and/or Junk folder (if some of your rules
move messages into the Junk folder). It doesn't many rules of assigning
categories along with a view to colorize them to start forgetting what color
means what, so the category name shown in a Category column is a reminder.
