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August 8th 06, 01:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Bruce Hagen
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Failure of Rules Processing -- 2
Norman:
Why have you not tried my suggestion of blocking everyone with an address
From Earthlink, EXCEPT the people you want to allow? I will give it to you
again.
You need two message rules and the first one must be above the second. They
should be the first rules after all your Delete it from server rules.
Rule 1:
Box 1: Where the from line contains people
Box 2: Stop processing more rules
Box 3: Click on Contains people and Add the addresses you want to receive
one-at-a time.
Rule 2: (right below rule 1).
Where the from line contains people
Delete it and Stop processing more rules (or Delete it from the server)
Click on Contains People and Add the domain: @earthlink.net
Messages to yourself and anyone else that you wish to allow that uses
earthlink will go to the Inbox. All others will be deleted.
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Bruce Hagen
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"Norman Litell" wrote in message
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Bob,
I haven't tried what you suggested, as it misses the basic point of my
problem.
Most of my spam contains a specific and limited set of email addresses in
either the TO: or CC: fields of the message. Nearly all of these are of
the
form
.
I clearly cannot block all email from standard email domains such as
earthlink, yahoo, hotmail, etc., so your domain-level example does not
address my problem.
To repeat my issue and example once again:
1.. Please look at my post of 8/3/06 at 5:50pm to see an example of the
rule which has approx 50 email addresses in it.
2.. If I get an email with
as the ONE and
ONLY
addressee, the rule works and the email is deleted.
Similarly, if I get an email with
as the ONE
and ONLY addressee, the rule works and the email is deleted.
3.. If I get an email with BOTH
AND
as addressees (again, both names are in my single
multi-address rule), the rule fails.
The only way I can see to make the rules system work for example 3 is to
have two separate rules, each of which has only one entry - either ronk124
or Yered. That leads to a situation where I would need to create hundreds
of rules instead of just one or two large rules which 'or' the bad
addresses.
Norman
"Opinicus" wrote in message
...
"Norman Litell" wrote
1. I get lots of spam.
2. From what I can see going through each of these spam messages, MOST
OF
this spam includes a limited set of addressees in either the TO: or CC:
part
of the email.
3. I have never received a relevant email which included any one of
this
set of spam-associated email addressees in either the TO: or CC:
address
list.
4. I therefore want to Delete any and all emails which include at
least
one
of these spam-associated addressees in either the TO: or CC: list of
addressees.
I just created a mail rule that says:
/begin rule
Where CC line contains
@spamcop.net
@... [more domains]
Delete it and stop processing more rules.
/end rule
It seems to work.
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Bob
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