Possible "rule" to solve current barrage

[Ken Isaacson]

I've set up a rule that seems to get rid of the current barrage of junk,
silently and in the background.

It appears that many (some?) ISP's use a Brightmail service to screen
messages for viruses. Somewhere along the line, the offending executables
are being intercepted by "Brightmail(r)", but nevertheless the message
itself is still sent on to me, with a notation in the body of the message
that the email "has been processed by Brightmail(r)" and that it was
infected with a virus.

It's nice that the virus was intercepted, but I certainly don't need a
mailbox full of such notifications.

I've set up a rule whereby any and all messages that contain "Brightmail(r)"
in the body are permanently deleted. An exception is if the sender appears
in my address book.

Seems to be working.

 

[Roady]

If you set the rule by using your webbased e-mailclient and configure it to
move or remove those messages you even prevent Outlook from downloading it.

 

[Ken Isaacson]

Yeah, I know. One of my ISP's allows such rules, but another (Verizon
Wireless) lets you filter only the "To," "From" and "Subject."

 

[Roady]

That's too bad :-S You can of course ask them to implement it and use this
virus thing as an argument.

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