Cardinal061399
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Spam Mail Rules
I've set up mail rules for a number of different mail boxes using the To: criteria. Unfortunately, I get mail without anyone in the 'To:' field, so the email shows as 'To: none'. I'd like to set up a message rule to recognize any incoming mail without a 'To:' address specified, and have those messages either blocked or sent to the Deleted folder. Is there a way to do this, or is there a better way to deal with/prevent spam?
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For some reason, I get legitimate emails where the "To:" line is blank, but when I check the properties (header) for the email, it shows "For:'myname'" in the header, without a "To:'myname'" line. Such was the case with the notification of this answer from Experts Exchange. If I set up the rule as suggested (using NOT), this legitimate message would have been blocked as well.
A common factor with a lot of spam is the type of subject line. A lot of spam blocks use these. Spam is a growing animal and it appears to be something that has to be continually worked on. You could also set the blocks on the from line for messages coming from particular domains.
When I send an E-mail to numerous friends that wish to be annonomous I put all the names of the recipients in the BCC block of the message. This allows the recipient to see hi name only. Someone out ther might know how to disposition these kinds of messages
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I.e. set a NOT condition on the To: field ("To: contains") with your correct e-mail address, or addresses, entered in.
Setting NOT is well described in Help, but write back if you want more assistance setting this up.