Junk Email - Obvious SPAM being overlooked

I am using Outlook 2003, and recently installed the update that contains the
latest Junk email filters. It certainly improved the Junk email collection.
I combine the use of this with adding SPAM email addresses and domains to my
Blocked Senders list whenever they arrive. However, an obvious SPAM
regularly makes it through, and I'm wondering why Microsoft seems to have
overlooked this for so long.

The obvious SPAM is an email message with *all* of the following blank:
From, To, CC, BCC, Subject, and Body. There is header data, though. Here is
an example of the headers from one of these (recipient and innocent server
names obfuscated):

Return-Path: <mckinny@xxxxxxxxx>
Received: from centrmimpi02.***.net ([##.##.###.###])
by centrmmtai02.***.net
(InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP
id
<20060618121714.ZWXD10025.centrmmtai02.***.net@centrmimpi02.***.net>
for <*******@***.net>; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:17:14 -0400
Received: from mail.******.com ([##.###.##.#])
by centrmimpi02.***.net with IMP
id n0CG1U00x06acko0000000
for *******@***.net; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:12:18 -0400
Received: from SMTP32-FWD by takempis.com
(SMTP32) id A000008AC; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:12:35 -0500
Received: from esper.com [86.198.69.128] by mail.*****.com
(SMTPD32-7.07) id A3321A8200CA; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:12:34 -0500
Message-Id: <200606180712796.SM01044@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:12:37 -0500

I would suggest that such obvious SPAM be filtered!

I was also unable to create my own Rule for deleting such emails, as the
Rules that use those fields do not allow for blanks.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Chicken Salad Alchemist

I recycle.
I send everything back to the planet it came from.


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