Setting a rule for spam Russian emails

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sue.j.smith

I work in a Service Desk and one of our users is having
trouble with Russian emails! We have MailSweeper, which
doesn't seem to pick the emails up and block them. The
emails are never from the same person, they are in Russian
also. Thought that maybe setting up a rule so that when
they come into his mailbox, they then get moved to his
Deleted Items Folder. However, not knowing Russian, I am
not sure what words to ask Outlook to pick up on. Nothing
about the emails seem similar.

Is there anything else that can be tried?
 
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DL

Tried blocking domain?
PS You've posted, to usernet, your email add so likely you'll also be
recieving spam
 
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Roady [MVP]

Outlook 2003 with Service Pack 1 has the option to mark messages as junk
when they are sent with a specific character set. Previous versions of
Outlook don't hold this functionality.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

version?

look in the header for the character set and create a rule that looks for
that string in the header.

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Brian Tillman

I work in a Service Desk and one of our users is having
trouble with Russian emails! We have MailSweeper, which
doesn't seem to pick the emails up and block them.
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Then your MAILsweeper administrator hasn't configured MAILsweeper correctly.
MAILsweeper should be able to filter on the network from which the message
comes (eliminating all messages from Russian networks) or it can consult
black-hole lists and reject mail from networks listed there, which would
most likely include the Russian network.
The emails are never from the same person, they are in Russian
also. Thought that maybe setting up a rule so that when
they come into his mailbox, they then get moved to his
Deleted Items Folder. However, not knowing Russian, I am
not sure what words to ask Outlook to pick up on. Nothing
about the emails seem similar.
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Outlook can't detect the language of the message, as far as I know. You
didn't state your Outlook version, but Outlook 2003 should be able to filter
on the header information, allowing it to detect the network(s) from which
these messages are coming.
 
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