screening spam in outlook express

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Paul Despres

Why don't e-mail programs give us the option of allowing
in only mail from senders we have specified (such as only
those listed in our address book)?

Then at least we would have the e-mail equivalent of
choosing between an unlisted number and getting
unsolicited calls from telemarketers (Spam).

We would have to manually add any new e-mail subscriptions
we've okayed on-line to our address book, but that is far
less trouble than deleting a lot of Spam.

What do you think?
 
In Outlook, yes, you can do just that by defining a rule, such as:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
move to <untrusted> folder
except if sender is in <contactsfolder> Address Book
stop processing more rules

Microsoft will not allow you to list more than one contacts-type folder,
like your default Contacts folder, so you will a similar rule for each
contacts-type folder that you have. Since the clause says "Address
Book", you may have to right-click on the contacts-type folder and
select to include it as an address book under the Outlook Address Book
tab.

Only e-mails from known senders (i.e., those in your contacts-type
folders) will be left in your Inbox. All others will get moved into
whatever other folder you have created to put untrusted senders. This
rule defines that all e-mail gets moved into the untrusted folder by
default unless it is from a known sender. Alternatively, if you want to
leave known senders alone but still want other e-mails to show up in the
Inbox, define a rule like:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
if sender is in <contactsfolder> Address Book
stop processing more rules

And put this rule near the top of the rules list. E-mails from known
senders will remain in the Inbox. Since the sender is known, you don't
need to execute any further rules against the message. If the sender is
unknown, any additional rules then get exercised against this message.

But then it looks like you were asking about Outlook Express instead of
Outlook. This newsgroup is for Outlook. Outlook and Outlook Express
are not the same product, nor are they derivatives of each other. I
don't know if you can define a similar mail rule in OE since I don't use
that product to retrieve e-mails; I only use OE as a newsreader client.
You're asking in the wrong group if you want info on OE.
 
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