Blank From:

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Mick

How can I set up a rule that sends messages with a blank From: address to
the spam folder or just deletes them altogether? I'm being inundated with
these messages.

I have Outlook 2002 with Windows XP Pro.
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Get Spam Bayes. it is free and works with Outlook rules but it will
correctly handle blank senders.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Mick <[email protected]> asked:
| How can I set up a rule that sends messages with a blank From:
| address to the spam folder or just deletes them altogether? I'm being
| inundated with these messages.
|
| I have Outlook 2002 with Windows XP Pro.
 
M

Mick

Thanks Milly,

That looked good, but when I downloaded and installed it Outlook wouldn't
work at all. It loaded OK but then within a minute I just got a blank screen
with Outlook - Inbox in the title bar at the top.

I've had to remove it.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Don't remove it. Close Outlook, find and rename outcmd.dat to .old. Reopen
Outlook and configure SpamBayes.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Mick asked:

| Thanks Milly,
|
| That looked good, but when I downloaded and installed it Outlook
| wouldn't work at all. It loaded OK but then within a minute I just
| got a blank screen with Outlook - Inbox in the title bar at the top.
|
| I've had to remove it.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Get Spam Bayes. it is free and works with Outlook rules but it will
|| correctly handle blank senders.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
|| Mick <[email protected]> asked:
||| How can I set up a rule that sends messages with a blank From:
||| address to the spam folder or just deletes them altogether? I'm
||| being inundated with these messages.
|||
||| I have Outlook 2002 with Windows XP Pro.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Turn on searching hidden/system files and search again.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Mick asked:

| I tried that Milly, I couldn't find the file outcmd.dat
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Don't remove it. Close Outlook, find and rename outcmd.dat to .old.
|| Reopen Outlook and configure SpamBayes.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Mick asked:
||
||| Thanks Milly,
|||
||| That looked good, but when I downloaded and installed it Outlook
||| wouldn't work at all. It loaded OK but then within a minute I just
||| got a blank screen with Outlook - Inbox in the title bar at the top.
|||
||| I've had to remove it.
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| |||| Get Spam Bayes. it is free and works with Outlook rules but it
|||| will correctly handle blank senders.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||||
||||
|||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
|||| Mick <[email protected]> asked:
||||| How can I set up a rule that sends messages with a blank From:
||||| address to the spam folder or just deletes them altogether? I'm
||||| being inundated with these messages.
|||||
||||| I have Outlook 2002 with Windows XP Pro.
 
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Mick

Thanks Milly,

It seems to have installed OK now - it sat there for ages thinking about
things.

I'll see how it goes.

Mick
 
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