Vista - Rules

For the life of me, I can not figure out why it is not possible to create a
mail rule based on "any header". That would give the user the power to
delete mail with certain IP addresses blocks and domains. Or is it a clever
marketing scheme to get me to buy Outlook?

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Iron Feliks

Well, it's pretty simple, they didn't program it to be able to select any
header.

As to Outlook, you can't select just any header in it either.


"Iron Feliks" <f dzerzhinsky@kgb.ru> wrote in message
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> For the life of me, I can not figure out why it is not possible to create
> a mail rule based on "any header". That would give the user the power to
> delete mail with certain IP addresses blocks and domains. Or is it a
> clever marketing scheme to get me to buy Outlook?
>
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> Iron Feliks

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DGuess wrote:
> Well, it's pretty simple, they didn't program it to be able to select
> any header.
>
> As to Outlook, you can't select just any header in it either.
>
>

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>> Iron Feliks
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I guess that is why I'm just switched to Thunderbird.

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Iron Feliks
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believe you can do it manually under Junk Mail function. add domain to list.




mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"Iron Feliks" <f dzerzhinsky@kgb.ru> wrote in message news:8A8D0C40-0754-4A48-968C-5CE26981A7B8@microsoft.com...
For the life of me, I can not figure out why it is not possible to create a
mail rule based on "any header". That would give the user the power to
delete mail with certain IP addresses blocks and domains. Or is it a clever
marketing scheme to get me to buy Outlook?

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Iron Feliks

In the hands of the average user, it would do more harm than good.
Especially in the case of spam, it requires very sophisticated
analysis of the headers to determine the true originating IP or domain.

Gary VanderMolen

"Iron Feliks" <f dzerzhinsky@kgb.ru> wrote in message news:8A8D0C40-0754-4A48-968C-5CE26981A7B8@microsoft.com...
> For the life of me, I can not figure out why it is not possible to create a mail rule based on "any header". That would give
> the user the power to delete mail with certain IP addresses blocks and domains. Or is it a clever marketing scheme to get me to
> buy Outlook?
>
> --
> Iron Feliks

Another satisified customer.

"Feliks Dzerzhinsky" <fdzerzhinsky@kgb.su> wrote in message
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> DGuess wrote:
>> Well, it's pretty simple, they didn't program it to be able to select
>> any header.
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>> As to Outlook, you can't select just any header in it either.
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>>> Iron Feliks
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> I guess that is why I'm just switched to Thunderbird.
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You can, but for spam blocking purposes that is worthless.
Spammers always forge the 'From' address.

Gary VanderMolen

"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@comcast.net> wrote in message news:e$7g6L3gHHA.4064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
believe you can do it manually under Junk Mail function. add domain to list.

mikeyhsd@comcast.net


"Iron Feliks" <f dzerzhinsky@kgb.ru> wrote in message news:8A8D0C40-0754-4A48-968C-5CE26981A7B8@microsoft.com...
For the life of me, I can not figure out why it is not possible to create a
mail rule based on "any header". That would give the user the power to
delete mail with certain IP addresses blocks and domains. Or is it a clever
marketing scheme to get me to buy Outlook?

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mikeyhsd wrote:
> believe you can do it manually under Junk Mail function. add domain to list.
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Adding a domain base on the From: is useless. They are normally forged.


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Gary VanderMolen wrote:
> In the hands of the average user, it would do more harm than good.
> Especially in the case of spam, it requires very sophisticated
> analysis of the headers to determine the true originating IP or domain.
>

So make it an advanced setting with a suitable warning. Not being able
to create rules on the basis of "received" IP addresses deprives email
users of a very powerful tool.


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DGuess wrote:
> Another satisified customer.
>

That's not it at all. _All_ software producers market products that
garden variety morons can use. They keep empowering the stupid by
dumbing down the product.

I once ran mail servers that blocked more that 1/4 million IP addresses,
blocks and domains. I would like something similar at the client level.
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