Junk making it through filter

[Kyle]

I have a rule I created to deal with certain persistent spammers that
works sometimes but not others. Occasionally a message comes through
that should have been permanently deleted, and I'm not sure why.

Here's the text of the rule:
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with 'prserv.net' or 'thechristianmedia.net' or 'faithhighway' or
'seekingthetruth.com'...or 'igcscommunications' or 'eglancesender' in
the message header*
and on this machine only
permanently delete it
except if sender is in CONTACTS address book
stop processing more rules

* the elipses is because I didn't want to list all 22 text strings I
have in this rule

Today, I received my second email from a spammer using EglanceSender
as their mass mailer, and while others have been caught by this rule,
today this one was not.

I'm using Outlook 2007 on a Windows XP SP2 machine, and we are not
using an Exchange server - the mail comes straight from our domain
host (not our ISP - two different companies).

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. This is the only rule I have, and
unless someone has a more elegant solution to catching the inordinate
amount of spam I continue to receive, this is the best solution I
could come up with.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. This is the only rule I have, and
unless someone has a more elegant solution to catching the inordinate
amount of spam I continue to receive, this is the best solution I
could come up with.

(I can't explain why what you see happens, but consider using an antispam
product like http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.spampal.org/

 

[Kyle]

(I can't explain why what you see happens, but consider using an antispam
product likehttp://spambayes.sourceforge.net/orhttp://www.spampal.org/

Thanks, Brian - I'd hoped Outlook had the built-in capability to
handle this, given it isn't a huge quantity of spam I'm getting, but
guess not. My brother-in-law and wife both suggested POPFile, but
that's waaaaaay more robust than I need.

Having worked for some epidemiologists, I'm partial to the Bayesian
filters, and am going to give SpamBayes a try since it can learn.
Thanks for the lead!