Email Rules syntax

[Al]

I've been experimenting with creating rules to filter out
some of the spam sent to my Inbox.

In certain instances, I wish to write a rule that will
use something like the DOS global * (asterisk) in front
of the @ sign of the Sender's address. My intent is to
send all the email from any sender at a given domain to
another folder.

Are the old DOS global characters * and / useable as
valid syntax with the Outlook email rules?

 

[Mangy Moose]

No, you must specify the text for each criteria that requires it.

You can write the rule so that all mail containing a specific set of text in
the senders address gets filtered.

I believe that the rule condition for doing this is "with specific words in
the sender's address".

The specific word can be, for example, yahoo, for all emails where the
sender is ####@yahoo.com, ####@yahoo.net, etc. You can add several words to
the rule to filter emails from several domains, if desired.

Please note that spammers generally forge the sender's name, when in fact
they are sent from completely unrelated hosting services. Filtering out an
entire domain may filter out legitimite messages, too.

Regards,
Moose

 

[Al]

Thank you for the assist.

Respectfully,
Al

-----Original Message-----
No, you must specify the text for each criteria that requires it.

You can write the rule so that all mail containing a specific set of text in
the senders address gets filtered.

I believe that the rule condition for doing this is "with specific words in
the sender's address".

The specific word can be, for example, yahoo, for all emails where the
sender is ####@yahoo.com, ####@yahoo.net, etc. You can add several words to
the rule to filter emails from several domains, if desired.

Please note that spammers generally forge the sender's name, when in fact
they are sent from completely unrelated hosting services. Filtering out an
entire domain may filter out legitimite messages, too.

Regards,
Moose





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