Outlook 2K Rules

[Dale Fye]

I'm getting killed by spam. Unfortunately, the spammers are using
some software that modifies the text of the subject line, and are
using html to format their messages. What I have found is that many
of these emails have hyperlinks to the same commercial web sites, so I
started viewing the source of the emails, copying the majority of the
URL that is being sent, and pasting that in one of my rules.

What is weird, is that the rule does not apparantly check the message
when it arrives. However, when I select the Tools-RulesWizard-RunNow,
this rule process properly and permanently deletes these messages.

I don't have the option of updating to a later version of
Office/Outlook. Is there a patch or some other fix that will Outlook
to check the source code of an html message when the message arrives.

 

[Brian Tillman]

What is weird, is that the rule does not apparantly check the message

when it arrives. However, when I select the Tools-RulesWizard-RunNow,
this rule process properly and permanently deletes these messages.

I see that as well, and my theory is that because it's not text as it's
delivered (it's quoted-printable or base64-encoded), Outlook's rules won't
catch it. Once it has been rendered for viewing, however, the rules can
then "see" the text and match on it.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.