Rules & Junk Mail filtering

[Keith Wheeler]

I'm wanting to create and use rules in Outlook 2003 to fine tune junk mail
handling. Is it possible to create a rule that will search for "Doctor*" in
the From field or RE: Med*" in the Subject field. You can see I'm trying to
use some type of wildcard character. Does this work in Rules? I can't seem
to find this in Help anywhere.

TIA.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm wanting to create and use rules in Outlook 2003 to fine tune junk
mail handling. Is it possible to create a rule that will search for
"Doctor*" in the From field or RE: Med*" in the Subject field. You
can see I'm trying to use some type of wildcard character. Does this
work in Rules? I can't seem to find this in Help anywhere.

Yes. For the former, use the condition "with specific words in the sender's
address" for the first, using "doctor" as the specific words. For the
latter, use the condition "with specific words in the subject", using "re:
med" as the specific words. The string "doctor" will match not only the
word "doctor" (case is not significant), but "witchdoctor" and "doctoring"
as well. The same goes for the other string. "re: med" will match "re:
medicine", "re: meds", and "where: med" as well.

 

[Keith Wheeler]

Thanks for the info. I did that, but I'm still seeing messages come through
with these words in the senders address and / or subject line. Am I missing
something? I have the rules checked, so they're supposed to be active.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks for the info. I did that, but I'm still seeing messages come
through with these words in the senders address and / or subject
line. Am I missing something? I have the rules checked, so they're
supposed to be active.

If you run the rules manually do they work? Please post the EXACT rules.

 

[Keith Wheeler]

If I run a couple of the rules manually they do NOT work. Some do work very
well.

Here's one that does not work at all:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
With 'Canadian' or 'Doctor' in the senders address
and with 'MedHelp' or 'RE: MedHelp' in the subject
and on this machine only
move it to the Junk E-Mail folder

TIA.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Here's one that does not work at all:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
With 'Canadian' or 'Doctor' in the senders address
and with 'MedHelp' or 'RE: MedHelp' in the subject
and on this machine only
move it to the Junk E-Mail folder

This rule says that the sender's address must contain either "canadian" or
"doctor" AND the subject must also contain "medhelp" (case is not
significant and the first of your subject conditions is a superset of the
second). If this what you intend? You should also include the "stop
processing more rules" action if you have rules that follow this one in the
ilist.

 

[Keith Wheeler]

OK, I've modified this as follows:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
With 'canadian doctor' in the senders address
and with 'medhelp' in the subject
and on this machine only
move it to the Junk E-Mail folder
and stop processing more rules

It is also the very first rule, it was the second. Still no joy. All the
other rules seem to run fine, except this one.

I'm lost.

 

[Brian Tillman]

OK, I've modified this as follows:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
With 'canadian doctor' in the senders address
and with 'medhelp' in the subject
and on this machine only
move it to the Junk E-Mail folder
and stop processing more rules

It is also the very first rule, it was the second. Still no joy. All
the other rules seem to run fine, except this one.

The "canadian doctor" string won't do you much good because mail addresses
generally don't contain strings that look like that.

Post the headers of a meswsage you'd like to prevent.