Identical junk mail from different users

[Howard Brazee]

When is Outlook & Outlook Express going to recognize that we get the
same damned Spam from different users, and that we sometimes need to
filter content?

 

[Bob I]

Dunno about OE, but Rules and Alerts in Outlook provide that capability.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Dunno about OE, but Rules and Alerts in Outlook provide that capability.

I have a spam which I keep getting with different headings, from
different people, with what looks like text, but which really is a
picture.

 

[Bob I]

So the body contains no text? Only attachment? You will need to
determine a suitable criteria to select it and kill it.

 

[Howard Brazee]

So the body contains no text? Only attachment?
Yep.

You will need to determine a suitable criteria to select it and kill it.

I have no idea what that could be.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Dunno about OE, but Rules and Alerts in Outlook provide that capability.

One trouble with Rules and Alerts is that the "marked as read" still
has a bug in it. The little icon that gets created when I have
e-mail gets created even if the Rules and Alerts marks a message as
read.

I open up Outlook, discover that there are no messages to be read, and
then have to mark a folder as read in order to get rid of this
irritation until next time.

On my previous computer with a previous version of Office, I bought a
shareware add-on that sometimes was able to fix this. But it didn't
work well, and I never installed it on this computer.

It is very irritating to be interrupted in my work by a non-message.

 

[Bob I]

Guess you could arrange for some "preprocessing" software to handle the
mail before it gets forwarded to you.