Mail validation using rules.

[Lars O]

I have some questions for Outlook 2000:

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1)
I prefer to validate incoming mails using rules checking the sender against
a whitelist of addresses and domains. To my knowledge this is rather
unhandy to implement in Outlook 2000 because the addresses must
be in my addressbook/contact which can not contain domains only
addresses.
Hereby I have to maintain a long list of rules just for this validation
purpose.

I wonder if there is a possibility somehow for using simple textfiles
(1 or 2) containg valid addresses and domains handled by 1 or 2 rules.
Or maybe there is another way around it.

Alternatively I could use an external mail validation program. Do you know
any with the described functionality?

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2)
Based on the content of the from-field in received messages I would like to
sort the mails into specific folders.
It is not only the senders address but the whole content I need to sort.
Can I do that using Outlook rules?

Example:
From: "Some sender ID text <[email protected]>"
Now I would like to be able to sort based on the complete from-string.

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3)
Are these features more integrated in the newer Outlook platforms (2002,
2003)?

 

[Diane Poremsky]

1) Outlook doesn't support it but antispam programs should.
2) use exlife from ornic.com
3) was it necessary to send this to all of the outlook groups? (follow-up
set to ms.public.outlook)