How does one block email from others using a foreign language?

[Tommy D.]

My Inbox is consistently full of emails (junk) from languages other than
English. Mostly they appear to be Greek, Hebrew, Arabic type symbols. Junk
Mail, nor my Norton's Anti-Spam is catching them. I understand Outlook 2007
has a feature to block. Short of purchasing this, is there another solution?
I did not have this problem prior to three months ago when this same
computer and software had to be reformatted and software reloaded.
Suggestions?

 

[Vince Averello]

In the settings of the Junk Email filter you can filter based on character
set or country: Actions menu > Junk Email > Junk Email settings >
International tab

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Version of Outlook? That will determine what methods are available to you,
unless you want to use a 3rd party tool.
See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/junkmail.asp for rules and tools you can
use with all versions of outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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[VanguardLH]

Tommy D wrote ...

In the settings of the Junk Email filter you can filter based on
character set or country: Actions menu > Junk Email > Junk Email
settings > International tab

Not available in OL2002 version, and probably not in earlier versions.
Might be in OL2007 but OP indicates they don't have that. Don't know
if OL2003 also has the option you specified. The OP never bothered to
mention WHICH version of Outlook that he has now. Telling us that he
doesn't have OL2007 says nothing about what other version he does have.

 

[VanguardLH]

My Inbox is consistently full of emails (junk) from languages other than
English. Mostly they appear to be Greek, Hebrew, Arabic type symbols. Junk
Mail, nor my Norton's Anti-Spam is catching them. I understand Outlook 2007
has a feature to block. Short of purchasing this, is there another solution?
I did not have this problem prior to three months ago when this same
computer and software had to be reformatted and software reloaded.
Suggestions?

Read:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.general/msg/824e7daaf63f2f01

Mentioning the version you don't have doesn't actually tell anyone what
version you do have (unless you mention all but one version as those you
don't have). I use the above rule for OL2002. Should work in any
version of Outlook since there is no reliance on some junk option within
Outlook.

This rule (in the link to my prior post) only checks on the character
set used in encoding the body of the message. It does not test on the
use of ISO character encoding in the Subject header (where the Subject
header starts with "=?ISO"). It is possible to filter on those, too,
but I don't remember the syntax for ISO encoding of the Subject header.

I figure if I can't read the body of the e-mail then I don't need to
receive it. It's pretty obvious when looking at the message list page
to see which are non-English that I won't be bothering to read, either,
and just delete them.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Don't know if OL2003 also has the option you specified.

It does.

 

[VanguardLH]

VanguardLH wrote ...


It does.

Thanks for the info. While I'm still using OL2002, there are times that
I consider upgrading to a newer version. I've trialed Office 2007 (with
Outlook) in a VM and didn't care for it at all, so if I upgrade it will
only be to OL2003 (or, if I wait long enough, maybe I'll like OL2010).
It is easier to select from a list of non-English charsets rather than
have to Google around trying to find their charset names to include in a
rule.

I've found it interesting (and disheartening) that OL2003 still has a
huge demand that keeps its prices up at eBay. Considering how old is
this version, it still sells for far more than I'm going to pay for
really old software.