My mail box is being bombarded by lewd email ads. Blocking the sender or
adding it to the Junk Mail does nothing because the sender of the email is
continually changing. Is there a way for me to block emails based on content
or key words?

yes there is , go to tools and then to mail rules, there you see list and you
can fill in key words.



"LH" wrote:

> My mail box is being bombarded by lewd email ads. Blocking the sender or
> adding it to the Junk Mail does nothing because the sender of the email is
> continually changing. Is there a way for me to block emails based on content
> or key words?

"LH" wrote in message
news:F8A35BFE-E337-41BA-84F4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> My mail box is being bombarded by lewd email ads. Blocking the
> sender or
> adding it to the Junk Mail does nothing because the sender of the
> email is
> continually changing. Is there a way for me to block emails based
> on content
> or key words?


Not if they sender is using HTML. In plain text, they might say
"mortgage" but in HTML it could be "mort<b></b>gage". When rendered,
and nothing is getting affected by the null string between the start
and end tags for bolding, you only see "mortgage". They could also
show the word altogher but parts of it are in different cells in a
table. There are other methods in HTML to slice up a word within the
body but which you see as one word. So searching on "mortgage" in a
rule won't work in HTML-formatted e-mails. You could define a rule
but only expect it to work on plain-text mails.

Get a real anti-spam solution. You didn't bother to mention WHICH
version of Outlook that you use. Bayesian filtering (in OL2003+) is
insufficient for determining what is spam or ham, especially if you
don't update the Bayes database (and instead rely on what Microsoft
stuffed in their update). SpamPal is free. There are lots of
anti-spam solutions, some free, some not.

The latest dodge that appeared today is that the senders are using
"charset=iso-8859-1" meta language. I would really appreciate knowing how to
block that.


"VanguardLH" wrote:

> "LH" wrote in message
> news:F8A35BFE-E337-41BA-84F4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > My mail box is being bombarded by lewd email ads. Blocking the
> > sender or
> > adding it to the Junk Mail does nothing because the sender of the
> > email is
> > continually changing. Is there a way for me to block emails based
> > on content
> > or key words?
>
>
> Not if they sender is using HTML. In plain text, they might say
> "mortgage" but in HTML it could be "mort<b></b>gage". When rendered,
> and nothing is getting affected by the null string between the start
> and end tags for bolding, you only see "mortgage". They could also
> show the word altogher but parts of it are in different cells in a
> table. There are other methods in HTML to slice up a word within the
> body but which you see as one word. So searching on "mortgage" in a
> rule won't work in HTML-formatted e-mails. You could define a rule
> but only expect it to work on plain-text mails.
>
> Get a real anti-spam solution. You didn't bother to mention WHICH
> version of Outlook that you use. Bayesian filtering (in OL2003+) is
> insufficient for determining what is spam or ham, especially if you
> don't update the Bayes database (and instead rely on what Microsoft
> stuffed in their update). SpamPal is free. There are lots of
> anti-spam solutions, some free, some not.
>
>

Dave <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The latest dodge that appeared today is that the senders are using
> "charset=iso-8859-1" meta language. I would really appreciate
> knowing how to block that.

You probably don't want to do that. ISO-8859 is the character set that
contains the Western Europe (Latin1) alphabet (i.e., standard English).
Latin1 is HTML's base character set (without Internationalization).
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I believe you are right. An interesting development though, 95 messages
today (a day later) all were in 'clear', not in the ISO charset, and were
trapped by my regular filters.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

> Dave <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > The latest dodge that appeared today is that the senders are using
> > "charset=iso-8859-1" meta language. I would really appreciate
> > knowing how to block that.
>
> You probably don't want to do that. ISO-8859 is the character set that
> contains the Western Europe (Latin1) alphabet (i.e., standard English).
> Latin1 is HTML's base character set (without Internationalization).
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
>