Outlook needs to block junk email by sub domains or wildcards

[Guest]

I am using Outlook 2003 as part of the Office Professional Package and belive
I have done all updates to this point.

The Outlook Junk email filter as far as I can tell will only let you block
domains by using this Example: Email = "(e-mail address removed)". To block
this by domain you would add "@123.MyDomain.com". The only problem is that
the next day I get the same junk email from the domain of
"(e-mail address removed)". As far as I can tell there is no way to block
when the mailer changes the sub domains or be able to block using wildcards
so you are blocking all primaary domains. I can find nothing in the help
files that talks about this at all.

Can anyone shed any light on this??

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[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

You can try adding *.mydomain.com and see if that works. Unfortunately
blocking by domain name is only marginally better than blocking by e-mail
address. The spammers either spoof legitimate domains (AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo,
etc.) or use a set of random characters (xy3stz53.com, etc.).

Aloha,

-Ben-
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[Brian Tillman]

You can try adding *.mydomain.com and see if that works.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The Outlook Junk email filter as far as I can tell will only let you
block domains by using this Example: Email =
"(e-mail address removed)". To block this by domain you would add
"@123.MyDomain.com". The only problem is that the next day I get the
same junk email from the domain of "(e-mail address removed)". As
far as I can tell there is no way to block when the mailer changes
the sub domains or be able to block using wildcards so you are
blocking all primaary domains. I can find nothing in the help files
that talks about this at all.

I find that a rule that searches for "MyDomain" in the header works well
enough.