I've set up a rule that seems to get rid of the current barrage of junk,
silently and in the background.
It appears that many (some?) ISP's use a Brightmail service to screen
messages for viruses. Somewhere along the line, the offending executables
are being intercepted by "Brightmail(r)", but nevertheless the message
itself is still sent on to me, with a notation in the body of the message
that the email "has been processed by Brightmail(r)" and that it was
infected with a virus.
It's nice that the virus was intercepted, but I certainly don't need a
mailbox full of such notifications.
I've set up a rule at the ISP level (i.e. at the ISP's site where I can
retrieve my mail online) whereby any and all messages that contain
"Brightmail(r)"in the body are permanently deleted.
As a backup, I've set up a similar rule in OL (just in case)..
Seems to be working. (In fact, at the ISP level, I've been "moving" the
offending messages into a newly created folder, just so I can see if the
msgs are still coming in. The folder online has been catching two or three
every hour, but NONE of them are getting through to my computer when OL
download my mail).
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