does copyright sign © mess up rule processing?

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I received a spam with this line

From: © drugname blah blah [[email protected]]

So I created a rule in outlook to move all email with drugname in the header
into junk folder. Strangely, when I run it now, it does not remove the
offending spam from my inbox.

Is the copyright symbol a backdoor to escape outlook rule processing?

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james said:
I received a spam with this line

From: © drugname blah blah [[email protected]]

So I created a rule in outlook to move all email with drugname in the header
into junk folder. Strangely, when I run it now, it does not remove the
offending spam from my inbox.

Is the copyright symbol a backdoor to escape outlook rule processing?
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It is possible the sender is using UTF encoding for their username (a
comment field in the From header). What you see in Outlook and most
other e-mail clients is the rendered version of the UTF string, not the
code for it which looks something like ?=...= followed by the e-mail
address field. So what you see to define your rule is not what is
actually in that header. I don't know if Outlook lets you look at the
raw source of an e-mail (as does Outlook Express using Ctrl+F3); that
is, what is shown in View -> Options might also be the rendered version
of the UTF encoding.
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Yes it did. 6 hours before your new post here.
 
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