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Outlook 2003, XP.

Today I received a 2nd spam email which, when I tried to set a filter through the "Add sender to junk mail", popped up a message that the "email address or domain name is not valid". Obviously someone has a way to bypass normal Outlook capabilities.

Does anyone know how to overcome this?

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    I wouldn't bother adding a rule to delete spam emails by email address. Spammers don't use the same for long...
    – Lee Taylor
    Dec 23, 2012 at 23:56
  • Further more, spam is often designed so you can create rules to break non-spam emails. EG, we kept getting spam from a company called SID, so we blocked the word SID. The problem was, we worked with a company called Westside ******* and SID (as a word) exists within westside!
    – Dave
    Dec 24, 2012 at 9:15
  • @DaveRook, that sounds like the scunthorpe problem
    – SeanC
    Jan 23, 2013 at 21:07

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I think you need to do similar to what Nicole suggested, but, just set the rule against any one who doesn't have a valid email address (or the sender is blank/empty). This way, since I assume your customers/clients/colleagues/business contacts etc, all send you email from a real domain, you're only removing those who you don't want.

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  • I like this - I'll try it.
    – Xavierjazz
    Dec 24, 2012 at 14:38
  • I am accepting this - I tried it and a great deal of spam is now, at least, going to the junk folder. Thanks all.
    – Xavierjazz
    Jan 23, 2013 at 21:23
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Create a custom rule that deletes the message when it arrives based on other criteria, e.g., content of the message.

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  • Well, that's possible, but I suspect (I can't tell because I deleted the other message) that there will be no commonality. The message "name" contains a number of characters which I am sure are changed each time and the only thing in the body of the message is 3 announcements that outlook has blocked images. I will keep this message for next time, perhaps there is a commonality. Thanks.
    – Xavierjazz
    Dec 24, 2012 at 0:01

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