Creating a rule that applies to all but a specific address

  • Thread starter Thread starter JerryK
  • Start date Start date
J

JerryK

Hi,

I get an inordinate amount of spam that appears to come from one of my
domains, but has a bogus username. That is, instead of
(e-mail address removed) the address looks like (e-mail address removed) or
(e-mail address removed). Can I write a rule that will move every message from
"somedomain.com" to a junk folder, except the messages from "legalname"?

Thanks,

jerry
 
JerryK said:
Hi,

I get an inordinate amount of spam that appears to come from one of my
domains, but has a bogus username. That is, instead of
(e-mail address removed) the address looks like
(e-mail address removed) or (e-mail address removed). Can I write a rule
that will move every message from "somedomain.com" to a junk folder,
except the messages from "legalname"?
Click to expand...


Sure. Define a rule that moves every incoming message EXCEPT if the From
header has the e-mail address you want to trigger on. Add the
stop-clause to the rule unless you want subsequent rules to also get
exercised against that message. The rule would look something like:

Apply the following after the message arrives
move to Junk folder
except if from contains legalname@domain
stop processing more rules
 
Vanguard said:
Sure. Define a rule that moves every incoming message EXCEPT if the From
header has the e-mail address you want to trigger on. Add the stop-clause
to the rule unless you want subsequent rules to also get exercised against
that message. The rule would look something like:

Apply the following after the message arrives
move to Junk folder
except if from contains legalname@domain
stop processing more rules
Click to expand...

This is not quite what I want. I want only the messages from @somedomain
to be checked. If I get a message from other domains I want to to go into
my inbox. Would not the rule you described only allows in mail from
legalname@domain.

jerry
 
look for words in the header '@somedomain.com' (or 'somedomain.com') EXCEPT
if it has (e-mail address removed) in the header (or sent to legalname). The
other option is to apply the rule to all mail collected on the
somedomain.com account, except ones sent to legalname.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
 
Thanks Diane, this seems to work. Can you explain why this same rule does
not work if I use the "Sent To" field instead of the "Message header"? I
see the bogus address in the Sent To when I open the message in Outlook.

Jerry


Diane Poremsky said:
look for words in the header '@somedomain.com' (or 'somedomain.com')
EXCEPT if it has (e-mail address removed) in the header (or sent to
legalname). The other option is to apply the rule to all mail collected on
the somedomain.com account, except ones sent to legalname.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/


This is not quite what I want. I want only the messages from @somedomain
to be checked. If I get a message from other domains I want to to go
into my inbox. Would not the rule you described only allows in mail
from legalname@domain.

jerry
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
JerryK said:
This is not quite what I want. I want only the messages from
@somedomain to be checked. If I get a message from other domains I
want to to go into my inbox. Would not the rule you described only
allows in mail from legalname@domain.
Click to expand...


Do all these e-mails target the same mailbox and you only have one
e-mail account defined within Outlook for that one mailbox? That is,
are you aggregating all incoming e-mails into one mailbox and that is
the only mailbox that you poll?

If you have separate mailboxes for each domain, you would have separate
e-mail accounts defined within Outlook, one account for each mailbox
that you poll. So add the clause to the rule that exercises the rule
only against incoming e-mails that arrive through that one account.
 
I have no idea - only that if you use words in the header, some rules work
better.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/


JerryK said:
Thanks Diane, this seems to work. Can you explain why this same rule does
not work if I use the "Sent To" field instead of the "Message header"? I
see the bogus address in the Sent To when I open the message in Outlook.

Jerry


Diane Poremsky said:
look for words in the header '@somedomain.com' (or 'somedomain.com')
EXCEPT if it has (e-mail address removed) in the header (or sent to
legalname). The other option is to apply the rule to all mail collected
on the somedomain.com account, except ones sent to legalname.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/


This is not quite what I want. I want only the messages from
@somedomain to be checked. If I get a message from other domains I want
to to go into my inbox. Would not the rule you described only allows
in mail from legalname@domain.

jerry
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Back
Top