Block emails

[Maju V Poulose]

I had entered my recipients in Safe Recipients list. The mails from others
will goto Junk box, that is fine. But I want to block the mails which are not
in my Safe Recipients list. How it is possible ? or Is there any way to
clear Junk box automatically ?

 

[VanguardLH]

I had entered my recipients in Safe Recipients list. The mails from
others
will goto Junk box, that is fine. But I want to block the mails
which are not
in my Safe Recipients list. How it is possible ? or Is there any
way to
clear Junk box automatically ?

You cannot block any e-mails with Outlook. Outlook will ALWAYS
download all e-mails (unless you configure it to only download the
headers and not the bodies in which case you will have to mark which
messages you want to download and then separately and manually decide
to download them). That means all e-mails, even ones that you choose
to permanently delete, will be completely downloaded into Outlook
before any rules are applied. Outlook does have the equivalent
"delete from server" rule clause that is in Outlook Express - because
Outlook gets the e-mail whereas Outlook Express can first retrieve the
headers only.

You will need to define a rule in Outlook that deletes whatever
e-mails are not captured by prior rules. So why don't you define a
rule that checks if the sender is in your address book (Contacts
folder) rather than having to manually update a Safe Senders list?
You create a rule similar to:

[Permanently] delete all e-mails
except if sender is in <addressbook>
stop processing

Outlook does not let you specify more than one address book per rule.
If you have multiple address books, you will need to separate the
deletion into a separate catch-all rule after all the prior whitelist
rules have filtered in the e-mails that you want to keep in your
Inbox, like:

If sender is in <addressbook_1>
stop processing

If sender is in <addressbook_2>
stop processing

....

[Permanently] delete all e-mails

 

[Brian Tillman]

I had entered my recipients in Safe Recipients list.

The wrong place to put recipients. The safe lists are for incoming
mesasges, not outgoing messages. The Safe Recipients list is for holding
addresses of mailing lists you might belong to.

The mails from
others will goto Junk box, that is fine. But I want to block the
mails which are not in my Safe Recipients list. How it is possible ?

See Vanguard's cogent comments.

or Is there any way to clear Junk box automatically ?

Programmatically? Start looking at http://www.outlookcode.com/

 

[Maju V Poulose]

You are right, actually I am saying about safe senders not safe recipients.
In the creation of rules I am not getting what condition I should give.
Because I didn't know what will be the senders address. I can only say
addresses not in my safe senders list. Example of an email is following,

-start-

Your natural way of slimming!
(e-mail address removed)
To:[email protected]
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Quality generic / I @ G R A, doctor-approved. http://oeuhbo.safecause.com

-end-

The problem is when we open the link the system will give virus alert.
Around 10 mails are coming likewise everyday with different addresses.

Any remedy ?

 

[Brian Tillman]

You are right, actually I am saying about safe senders not safe
recipients. In the creation of rules I am not getting what condition
I should give. Because I didn't know what will be the senders
address. I can only say addresses not in my safe senders list.
Example of an email is following,

-start-

Your natural way of slimming!
(e-mail address removed)
To:[email protected]
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Quality generic / I @ G R A, doctor-approved.
http://oeuhbo.safecause.com

-end-

The problem is when we open the link the system will give virus alert.
Around 10 mails are coming likewise everyday with different addresses.

When you open what link? I can't imagine why anyone would click a link in
such a message.

 

[Maju V Poulose]

Now what I am doing is daily I am deleting 10 or more unwanted mails from
Junk Emails folder. I am seeking, is there any other way to block emails from
the addresses which are unpredictable and not in Safe Senders List, instead
of going to Junk Email.

Thanx

 

[Brian Tillman]

Now what I am doing is daily I am deleting 10 or more unwanted mails
from Junk Emails folder. I am seeking, is there any other way to
block emails from the addresses which are unpredictable and not in
Safe Senders List, instead of going to Junk Email.

Outlook MUST download messages in order to process them, either with the
Junk E-mail filter or with rules. There is no server-side blocking ability
in Outlook. Try a tool like http://www.spampal.org/