Outlook should delete messages with misspelled words in subject.

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clchs97a

With all of the junk mail we receive, it would be nice for the user to select
an option to treat all Emails with misspelled words in the subject line as
junk. Today you can block senders but it is easy for them to reply with a
different adderss. In many cases the sender tries to trick the system by
purposely misspelling a word to let the message come through. It would be
nice to stop these messages before you were even able to see them. If the
blocked messages were placed in the Junk Mail folder, you could even review
them the ensure that a message that you wanted to see was not mistakenly
placed there because the sender didn't use spell checker.

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Brian Tillman

clchs97a said:
With all of the junk mail we receive, it would be nice for the user
to select an option to treat all Emails with misspelled words in the
subject line as junk.

That would be completely impractical. Misspelled in what language? How
would it tell the difference between a correctly spelled word and an
incorrectly spelled one that happens to be the correct spelling of another
word (as in "Use your knows to smell"). Do you expect Outlook to gain
psychic abilities?
Today you can block senders but it is easy for
them to reply with a different adderss. In many cases the sender
tries to trick the system by purposely misspelling a word to let the
message come through. It would be nice to stop these messages before
you were even able to see them.

That's what all the anti-spam add-ons are for, including some very good free
ones. http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ is one example.
 

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