Can't filter Swen! Help!

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Hiawatha Bray

I'm trying to filter some virus spam out of my IMAP e-mail using the Outlook
rules wizard. But the rules don't work consistently. I tell it to move all
mail with attachments to a folder, and then delete the message. It
won't--unless I use the Run Now feature. Then it works, but only sometimes.
This problem recurs with Outlook 2000 and Outlook XP.
I'm totally confused. Help!
 
Outlook really sucks on that doesn't it. I've tried to filter all these
"Microsoft" emails by putting the word Microsoft as in the filtering.
Doesn't work.
 
I'm trying to filter some virus spam out of my IMAP e-mail using the Outlook
rules wizard.
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Filter out anything that isn't addressed directly to you. That will
elimnate the vast majority of them.
 
I'm trying to filter some virus spam out of my IMAP e-mail using the Outlook
rules wizard. But the rules don't work consistently. I tell it to move all
mail with attachments to a folder, and then delete the message. It
won't--unless I use the Run Now feature. Then it works, but only sometimes.
This problem recurs with Outlook 2000 and Outlook XP.
I'm totally confused. Help!
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I posted a list of keywords that i've been using to successfully
filter almost all of these messages to my trash folder, but later
noticed that every one of these emails did not have my email
address in the To: field so i've setup one filter (Eudora Light) so
that any message that "Does Not Contain" my email address
in the To: field is filtered to the trash folder. So far in the past
few days it has filtered 100% of these fake emails. Legitimate
email does have my email address in the To: field so none of
these are adversely affected, only the ones with the Worm
attached. One little filter is now doing the job better than
20 keyword filters did :-)

I also have Eudora set to automatically go online every hour,
download my email, then automatically delete mail from the
server, then close the connection. This has stopped my 10MB
inbox from being clogged to capacity every two hours like
before.

Randy
 
That almost works for me... lots of newsletters do not have my email
explicitly in the To: or even CC: field, so an additional piece of advice is
to set up (earlier executing) rules to grab known newsletters and slap them
in their own folders first before scanning for "dear occupant" messages.
 
Outlook really sucks on that doesn't it. I've tried to filter all these
"Microsoft" emails by putting the word Microsoft as in the filtering.
Doesn't work.
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I use a simple filter on Outlook Distress that gets most of them,
deleting them right off the server in about one second so they aren't
even downloaded before filtering.

The great bulk are addressed by bcc:

Ergo, I've set up a filter that places anything addressed to me on the
"To:" line or "cc:" in a real mailbox, and everything else -- the bcc
stuff -- gets "delete from server".

Works fine for almost all of it. Gets rid of other bcc spam too.

This option ought to be available in most any other newsreader, since
Outlook Distress is about the worst one imaginable.

The only catch is that if you have legit mail coming to you via bcc
(e.g., you're on some sort of list serv) you'll have to adjust the
filters to preserve it. But that's not so hard.

Hope this helps someone.
 
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