Re: Filtering on originators NAME

From: Roady [MVP] (newsgroups_DELETE__at__DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:29:37 +0100

Wel I still see this as doubling your work; the JEF does its work properly
so make use of that. You can enable AutoArchive on that folder to
automatically delete them :-) 

-- 
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
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"Swifty" <Swifty@btconnect.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95F29768C8B72SwiftyCo@207.46.248.16...
>> Isn't your Junk E-mail Filter catching these already?
>
> I think they are being caught, but the junk mail filter is putting them
> into my junk mail folder, where I have to delete them, and this is more
> effort than these **** deserve. Insert your own epithet, and don't feel
> restricted to four-lettered words!
>
> These particular items are so obviously SPAM that I'd prefer to add a rule
> to delete them permanantly, or at the very least mark them as read and
> then
> delete them (giving the chance of recovering them from the trash).
>
> The problem with looking for "Valium" in the entire header is that I can
> conceivably receive email with "Valium" in the subject as I know people
> for
> whom it is prescribed.
>
> I've already asked about the ability to use Regular Expressions as part of
> the rules matching process; with those I could search for a caseless match
> on:
> ^from: .*(cialis|valium|xanax)
> ... anywhere in the headers.
>
> MailWasher allows me to do SPAM filtering with regular expressions, but
> their definition of the "from" field is the same as Outlooks: just the
> email address portion.
>
> I suppose I'm wishing for the rules to implement "where the from field
> contains specific words"
>
> -- 
> Steve Swift
> http://www.ringers.org.uk       (Personal Webpage)
> http://hedgehog.farn.uk.ibm.com (IBM Internal - restricted)
>

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