D
Dick Chambers
First of all, my thanks to the people who took time to answer my earlier two
questions on spam, a couple of weeks ago.
In Outlook Express 6, I have gone into <Tools> <Message Rules><Mail>.
At the top of the resulting box, there is an entry "Auto-generated Norton
AntiSpam rule". This rule is immovable, and always occupies the top of the
box, whatever I do. When I add further filtering rules of my own, these must
go below the Norton entry.
Immediately below the Norton rule, I have used the facilities within Outlook
Express and have written my own first rule:-
Where the TO line does not contain (e-mail address removed)
Delete it from server.
This instruction has been successful, eliminating the unnecessary use of the
telephone line for messages from Postmasters around the world informing
somebody called pxgj at (e-mail address removed) (pxgj was a different
combination of letters each time, and all this is nothing to do with me)
that (e-mail address removed) is an unknown address. (If you have seen
my previous question, you will remember that prolific spammers have been
using my private domain name as a fake return address).
Fine, so far. This successful filtering has saved a lot of telephone time.
Flushed with this success, I decided to put in another rule to prevent waste
of telephone line time from spammers whose only wish (for example) is to
lengthen, thicken, or make more rigid, my male attributes. The extra rule I
put in was:-
Where the message body includes the words 'ramrod'
Delete it from server
Actually, I have put in a whole range of prohibited words or phrases like
this. I have tested the rules by sending myself messages (containing an
offending word) from a new Hotmail account I have set up. I have ensured
that the address of the new Hotmail account does not exist in my Address
Book. None of the new rules work. The messages are all delivered, either to
my Inbox or to the Norton AntiSpam folder. Either way, it has used telephone
time.
Why does the first of my rules work, but the subsequent ones that I have
added fail?
questions on spam, a couple of weeks ago.
In Outlook Express 6, I have gone into <Tools> <Message Rules><Mail>.
At the top of the resulting box, there is an entry "Auto-generated Norton
AntiSpam rule". This rule is immovable, and always occupies the top of the
box, whatever I do. When I add further filtering rules of my own, these must
go below the Norton entry.
Immediately below the Norton rule, I have used the facilities within Outlook
Express and have written my own first rule:-
Where the TO line does not contain (e-mail address removed)
Delete it from server.
This instruction has been successful, eliminating the unnecessary use of the
telephone line for messages from Postmasters around the world informing
somebody called pxgj at (e-mail address removed) (pxgj was a different
combination of letters each time, and all this is nothing to do with me)
that (e-mail address removed) is an unknown address. (If you have seen
my previous question, you will remember that prolific spammers have been
using my private domain name as a fake return address).
Fine, so far. This successful filtering has saved a lot of telephone time.
Flushed with this success, I decided to put in another rule to prevent waste
of telephone line time from spammers whose only wish (for example) is to
lengthen, thicken, or make more rigid, my male attributes. The extra rule I
put in was:-
Where the message body includes the words 'ramrod'
Delete it from server
Actually, I have put in a whole range of prohibited words or phrases like
this. I have tested the rules by sending myself messages (containing an
offending word) from a new Hotmail account I have set up. I have ensured
that the address of the new Hotmail account does not exist in my Address
Book. None of the new rules work. The messages are all delivered, either to
my Inbox or to the Norton AntiSpam folder. Either way, it has used telephone
time.
Why does the first of my rules work, but the subsequent ones that I have
added fail?