spam: blank from, to, subject, & msg

[danielo]

I have recently been getting LOTS of spam that is blank -
no To, no From, no Subject, no Message. I can't find how,
in Outlook, to set up a rule or anything to get rid of
these, and it seems like it'd be so easy! I want to
affect any incoming message that has blank "from" and "to"
fields. Ideas?

 

[Mary]

Just another spammer trick so you can't easily block it. If you open the
email, go to View, Options on the menu, you'll see where it came from. You
can also just right click on it when it's unopened to check Options in case
you don't trust opening it.

 

[danielo]

Mary - thanks! I still think it'd be nice if Outlook
could address messages with blank subjects and/or
messages....

 

[Brian Tillman]

Mary - thanks! I still think it'd be nice if Outlook
could address messages with blank subjects and/or
messages....

For blank subjects, I think it can be done. You create a rule that acts on
all messages and deletes them, then add an exception to that rule that
specifies each key on your keyboard (except for space), one at a time, in
the "except if subject contains" clause. That way, as long as there is any
character in the subject, the message won't be deleted.

 

[danielo]

Lovely! I gotta say, after having used Novell Groupwise
for awhile, Outlook is REALLY not impressing me.....