Outlook junk mail options NEEDS regular expression parsing!!!

[Guest]

The junk mail filtering rules in Outlook are a failure. There is a ton of
rules that do absolutely nothing useful when I could have used something like
simple regular expression parsing on the sender's address to create a bullet
proof spam filter.

Example, I keep getting spam mail with this format:
Yada Yada [[email protected]]

Now, all I need to do is search the sender's address string for something
like " [" or even ".com]" and not one of those junk mails would ever reach
me, and Outlook's highest spam filter setting miraculously fails to catch
these simple spam messages.

I tried the "com]" rule where it looks for WORDS in the SENDER'S address...
and the rule fails, it does absolutely nothing. I guess because the Outlook
parser expects it to be a stand alone word delimited by white space???
Anyway, I could write a regular expression parser in 10 minutes that would
spank all over the current rules in Outlook...

Sorry, but I'm just irritated that I cannot creat such a simple filter in
Outlook.
As you can tell, I'm getting spammed and cannot block it, so I think regular
expressions in a future update would be great.


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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There are plenty of junk mail add-ins, some free, that have this capability. See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/junkmail.htm . Microsoft is clearly going in a different direction, toward junk filtering that requires as little user intervention as possible (which is what I would want in my organization).

In your scenario, BTW, the "]" is not in the user's email address but in the display name.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers