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My mail box is being bombarded by lewd email ads. Blocking the
sender or
adding it to the Junk Mail does nothing because the sender of the
email is
continually changing. Is there a way for me to block emails based
on content
or key words?
Not if they sender is using HTML. In plain text, they might say
"mortgage" but in HTML it could be "mort<b></b>gage". When rendered,
and nothing is getting affected by the null string between the start
and end tags for bolding, you only see "mortgage". They could also
show the word altogher but parts of it are in different cells in a
table. There are other methods in HTML to slice up a word within the
body but which you see as one word. So searching on "mortgage" in a
rule won't work in HTML-formatted e-mails. You could define a rule
but only expect it to work on plain-text mails.
Get a real anti-spam solution. You didn't bother to mention WHICH
version of Outlook that you use. Bayesian filtering (in OL2003+) is
insufficient for determining what is spam or ham, especially if you
don't update the Bayes database (and instead rely on what Microsoft
stuffed in their update). SpamPal is free. There are lots of
anti-spam solutions, some free, some not.
