Remove $$ from Junk E-Mail Filter

[Steve___8]

I use Outlook 2000 and have the Junk filters turned on.
Right now, any e-mail with $$ goes to the junk filter,
however I don't want e-mail with $$ being picked as junk
because my corporation sends out e-mails to global lists
with $$ in the 'to' box.

I see that there is a FILTERS.TXT file that lists the
default items that causes mail to be catagorized as junk,
but this seems to be a read me only type file.

Is there any way to keep my junk filters going and remove
only the $$ from the default Microsoft filter list?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[BillR [MVP]]

I think your corporation needs to change it's methods.

 

[Guest]

This cannot be modified, however, you should be able to have Junkmail filters ignore any mail from your email domain. Go to Tools-->Options-->Preferences tab-->Junk Mail-->Safe Senders tab. Add your email domain to this; so, company.com. You may have to put a number of domains in there to get it to work if you host many email domains. (Don't confuse email domains, and Windows domains--they may or may not match each other.)

 

[Guest]

Thanks. That seems logical.

For my version of O2k, I had to add it to the exception
list in the rules wizard.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
This cannot be modified, however, you should be able to

have Junkmail filters ignore any mail from your email
domain. Go to Tools-->Options-->Preferences tab-->Junk
Mail-->Safe Senders tab. Add your email domain to this;
so, company.com. You may have to put a number of domains
in there to get it to work if you host many email domains.
(Don't confuse email domains, and Windows domains--they
may or may not match each other.)

 

[Guest]

Well, that's not going to happen, espescially when the
corporation has much more employees than Microsoft. I'm
using Office 2000, so maybe a later version of office has
the ability to edit the default values.

By the way, here are two of the corporate uses of the $$
in the e-mail address:

<companyname>MailReply$$@<companydomain>.com
<producttype>$$@<companydomain>.com

 

[Tony Gravagno]

Bill's right, of all the characters they could pick, the dollar sign
was the wrong one.

Since you're in such a large company, you might be able to ask your
MIS department to do some things:
1) Let you turn off Junk Mail and use a real spam filter which they
can manage and deal with the $$ issue.
2) Let you upgrade to software that's not 4 years old.
3) Employ policies that aren't obviously stupid to the rest of the
world.

Tony