On 13/6/04 2:49 pm, "Bill Calamita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> on 6/13/04 4:06 AM, Kirk McElhearn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> One thing the junk filter does nothing against is spam sent "from" my e-mail
>>> address. The problem with the exclusive setting is that it only looks at
>>> from addresses and your contact list, but there is tons of spam that has
>>> forged addresses.
>> 
>> For which I have created a rule that essentially says:
>> 
>> If the e-mail address is mine but the contact name is not me, then flag as
>> junk.
> 
> How did you do this?
> 
> I created a rule that says if the 'from' field contains my email address,
> _and_ the 'from' field _doesn't_ contain my name, mark it as junk.
> 
> Is there a better way of making this rule?
> 

Rather than rely on the display name (which can also be forged), in some of
my accounts I add an extra 'x-barry' header which says "Yes, it's me!". Then
use the mail rule to check for the presence of that header.

-- 
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
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