Re: Outlook should let me use wildcards in junkemail settings.

From: Vanguard (see_signature)
Date: 01/03/05


Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:57:31 -0600


"shovem" <shovem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B4F31D72-C35A-4932-B378-95A8947B32CB@microsoft.com...
>I would really like to be able to categorize junk email with wildcards.
> Where this is really getting to be a pain is the spammers new trick is
> to use
> third level domains so the email will come from
> junk@send.lotsofjunk.com.
> Then when I block that email, I get a piece of spam from
> spam@fullof.lotsofjunk.com and that one comes into my inbox. Ideally,
> I
> would be able to either block the root domain lotsofjunk.com and
> anything
> that comes from that domain would be blocked. Or I could block all
> third
> level domains with @*.lotsofjunk.com (* being the wildcard).

Do you really have to use the "@[hostname.]domain.tld[.cctld]" syntax to
specify a domain to block? Couldn't you just specify "domain.tld"?

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