Re: Outlook Express rules

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:20:44 -0500

"Geribaldy" <reply@ddressnotvalid.now> wrote in message
news:8zEHc.2335$Wd2.23148648@news-text.cableinet.net
> "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:u5fUnmfZEHA.3092@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Geribaldy wrote:
>>> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:e50CIZfZEHA.2388@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>> Not sure what you mean by *x-sent*?
>>>> --
>>> Here is my latest spam email properties. As you can see my true
>>> email address appears twice in the header, on lines 10 and 26. It
>>> doesen't appear on the "To" line. Does the entry on line 26
>>> correspond to CC in Outlook Express? If it does then the Rule #6
>>> (where the To or CC line does NOT contain <my email addresses> then
>>> delete it from the server) from that Mindspring link wouldn't
>>> delete it. <snip>
>>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:14:04 +0500
>>> From: "Madeleine Hilton" <aaqvsnf@mail2Robin.com>
>>> To: <nightmare@blueyonder.co.uk>
>>> <snip>
>>> X-Sent-To: <my email address> Return-Path: aaqvsnf@mail2Robin.com
>>>
>> What's wrong with using
>> http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm? --
>> ~PA Bear
>
> I have read through that and am referring to rule 6 from that page.
> Actually I am trying to understand how outlook express uses the
> address in the x-sent-to: line.
> To clarify:
>
> Some of my spam email headers have more than one address in the TO
> line and mine is one of those addresses, so it gets sent to me. I'm
> guessing that the comma-separated addresses in the TO line are CC
> addresses.
> Some have only one address in the TO line which is not one of mine,
> but has my address in the X-Sent-To: line, and I receive these also.
> I am simply trying to figure what rule, if any, will work on
> information in the X-Sent-To: line.
>
> Once again thanks for taking time to reply.

OE doesn't use that header line at all and you can't make rules to check it. 

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