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Beautiful! It warms the cockles of the heart of this old programmer to see
this solution. Of course, I want the jokes that a ladyfriend keeps sending
to her list of friends, so letting her mail come through along with "stop
processing more rules" covers it nicely.
"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:u45BCyvsFHA.4052@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> <snip>
>
>>> You control your own destiny. I have one *Throw Away* address I use for
>>> ordering online and getting the needed confirmations. A message rule
>>> that
>>> requires my address, and only my address, to be in the To line,
>>> eliminates most Spam.
>>
>> How do you do that? I have a user created folder and a rule stating that
>> mail that has my real address be sent there and a lot of spam, though not
>> all, ends up in the Inbox.
>
> Where the To line contains people
> Delete it from the server
> Click on Contains People and add one at a time all letters and numbers
> that are *not* in your address.
>
> A majority of Spam is sent to more than one address, and this rule
> eliminates that part.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
> ~IB-CA~
>
Beautiful! It warms the cockles of the heart of this old programmer to see
this solution. Of course, I want the jokes that a ladyfriend keeps sending
to her list of friends, so letting her mail come through along with "stop
processing more rules" covers it nicely.
"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:u45BCyvsFHA.4052@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> <snip>
>
>>> You control your own destiny. I have one *Throw Away* address I use for
>>> ordering online and getting the needed confirmations. A message rule
>>> that
>>> requires my address, and only my address, to be in the To line,
>>> eliminates most Spam.
>>
>> How do you do that? I have a user created folder and a rule stating that
>> mail that has my real address be sent there and a lot of spam, though not
>> all, ends up in the Inbox.
>
> Where the To line contains people
> Delete it from the server
> Click on Contains People and add one at a time all letters and numbers
> that are *not* in your address.
>
> A majority of Spam is sent to more than one address, and this rule
> eliminates that part.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
> ~IB-CA~
>