Filter rules comparing only substrings of "To:" address ?

[Martin Maurer]

Hello,

i use filter rules to work on incoming email, move them to certain folder
and remove unwanted emails (spam).

One of the rules, i use, works on the "To:" address. My email address is
e.g.
Firstname.Lastname@my_domain_not_relevant_what_it_is.de
I have a catch-all for this domain.

My question is the following: i get spam to "To:" address astname@...
(Lastname without "L").
So i simply added a rule to move astname@... to spam folder. But now also
Firstname.Lastname@... (my regular email address) is forwarded to spam
folder.

Windows Mail (on Vista 64 SP1) seems to compare only parts not complete
email addresses. Same problem also in old Outlook Express.

Is there some way to tell Windows Mail that it should compare the complete
email address ?
Is it perhaps also possible to use some kind of wildcards or regular
expressions ?

Regards,

Martin

 

[Guest]

Hello,

i use filter rules to work on incoming email, move them to certain folder
and remove unwanted emails (spam).

One of the rules, i use, works on the "To:" address. My email address is
e.g.
Firstname.Lastname@my_domain_not_relevant_what_it_is.de
I have a catch-all for this domain.

My question is the following: i get spam to "To:" address astname@...
(Lastname without "L").
So i simply added a rule to move astname@... to spam folder. But now also
Firstname.Lastname@... (my regular email address) is forwarded to spam
folder.

Windows Mail (on Vista 64 SP1) seems to compare only parts not complete
email addresses. Same problem also in old Outlook Express.

Is there some way to tell Windows Mail that it should compare the complete
email address ?
Is it perhaps also possible to use some kind of wildcards or regular
expressions ?

Regards,

Martin

Have you tried inserting another rule into the list before those rules,
which looks for your regular email address, then takes no action
except to stop processing more rules? Note that you'll have to
scroll down the list of actions to take in order to see them all.
Its position in the list matters, but its rule number doesn't.