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We have people sending us emails where they have made the return address
ours so we are unable to block them for obvious reasons, any suggestions?
 
Search in the received email for "href." This will not catch plain mail with no hyperlinks but hey not much spam comes that way.
 
You got me, search exactly where in the mail? The emails we get will have
from with our email address and if we try to block it blocks our email
address.

Search in the received email for "href." This will not catch plain mail
with no hyperlinks but hey not much spam comes that way.
 
An email address does NOT begin href. Only links to SPAM sites. Look at how HTML is constructed. Most spam comes as HTML and they have links such as <a href="http://www.spam.com">SPAM</a>. So if Microsoft Outlook rules work correctly it will find most of these in the body of the email and you can delete them. Unfortunately Microsoft Outlook Rules work poorly and so this idea would work if their rules application did.. It worked on some but some it don't and for no reason I can tell. If http or href is in the e-mail the rule to delete it should work and delete them.
 
Outlook's rules and filters aren't intended to be an end to spam. OL2003 is
pretty good with the High settings - if you need more, try mail washer or
any of the other antispam addins available.


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An email address does NOT begin href. Only links to SPAM sites. Look at
how HTML is constructed. Most spam comes as HTML and they have links such
as <a href="http://www.spam.com">SPAM</a>. So if Microsoft Outlook rules
work correctly it will find most of these in the body of the email and you
can delete them. Unfortunately Microsoft Outlook Rules work poorly and so
this idea would work if their rules application did.. It worked on some but
some it don't and for no reason I can tell. If http or href is in the
e-mail the rule to delete it should work and delete them.
 
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