how do I add emails with no return adress to my junkmail settings

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Mike

Some junk mail I receive does not have a return address so I cannot add it to
my blacklist. Is there a way to delete all emails without a return address?

Thnaks
 
Adding names to the blocked list is pointless - spammers keep changing the
From address or use one you wouldn't want to block, like your own or for
businesses you might get legit mail from. It's better to use the junk
filter set on high and rules to capture messages it mixes.

See http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2005/20050729.htm for a blank
sender rule. (See http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/rules.htm if you need
step by step instructions.)

Note - outlook 2003 and 2007's junk filter is updated monthly. If you don't
use automatic updates, make sure you check for updates around this time
every month.

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Such emails are usually already captured by the Junk E-mail Filter so there
is no need to blacklist them.
You can create a "reverse" rule which moves all messages to the Junk E-mail
folder unless the sender's address contains "a", "e", "i", "o" or "u" (you
can add some additional characters as well of course but this should cover
it for most if not all regular addresses).
 
Roady said:
You can create a "reverse" rule which moves all messages to the Junk E-mail
folder unless the sender's address contains "a", "e", "i", "o" or "u" (you
can add some additional characters as well of course but this should cover
it for most if not all regular addresses).
Click to expand...

But the sender might be using something like (e-mail address removed) for their
mailing address which doesn't have any vowels in it. So to check for a
blank Subject header, I check for the absence of a-z and 0-9 and for
checking on a blank From header I look for the absence of the @
character (which serves double duty as noted below).

Move or delete except if @ in sender's address

- If the sender's e-mail was empty, it wouldn't have the @ character.
- If the @ character is missing, it isn't a valid e-mail address.

Rather than delete the suspect message, I move it to the Junk folder. I
then use auto-archive to permanently delete items in the Junk folder
that are over N days old (I set it to 3 days).
 
I think I had that covered by stating that the OP could add some additional
characters ;-)

Note that just looking for the @ character won't work for internal messages
via Exchange.
 
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