Filtering rule for Outlook to avoid spam

bennygod

I have my own website and also email from that website. I use the same email address for everything. Somehow my email has been hijacked and is used to send out spam, have contacted my server but they can't do much about it. Anyway I get all of the "message cannot be sent" and MAIL-DAEMON messages back which clogs up my inbox. if my email address is ben@thisisnotmyemailaddress.com I still receive emails sent to mfvjivnfj@thisisnotmyemailaddress.com, basically anything that is not 'ben' before the @ will still come through. As all the spam is sent using anything else except "ben@......" I want to automatically filter everything apart from "ben@...." as I know it'll be message undelivered emails. Anyone any idea how to set this up as a rule in Outlook 2003?

I hope that I've explained this clearly enough?????

Wombat

As Outlook applies its mail rules in order, you could set up a folder (say bensmail) and then set up 2 rules.

The first would be to move all mail addressed to [EMAIL="ben@thisisnotmyemailaddress.com"]ben@thisisnotmyemailaddress.com[/EMAIL] (the correct address) into the bensmail folder. The second would move all mail from the domain thisisnotmyemailaddress.com to the Trash folder.

So all mail addressed to ben is saved in its own folder and everything else is trashed.

http://www.slipstick.com/rules/wildcards.htm

http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/lofiversion/index.php/t14737.html

HTH

student100

Your account has not been hijacked, the spammers are simply sending email with spoofed "from" addresses that appears to come from your domain.

I don't know what web host you use - but if they have a web "control panel" with email settings - disable the "catch all" email address if possible - then all mail addressed to an mailbox that doesn't exist will be bounced by the server.

BrokeBrunette

bennygod wrote:

I have my own website and also email from that website. I use the same email address for everything. Somehow my email has been hijacked and is used to send out spam, have contacted my server but they can't do much about it. Anyway I get all of the "message cannot be sent" and MAIL-DAEMON messages back which clogs up my inbox. if my email address is ben@thisisnotmyemailaddress.com I still receive emails sent to mfvjivnfj@thisisnotmyemailaddress.com, basically anything that is not 'ben' before the @ will still come through. As all the spam is sent using anything else except "ben@......" I want to automatically filter everything apart from "ben@...." as I know it'll be message undelivered emails. Anyone any idea how to set this up as a rule in Outlook 2003?

I hope that I've explained this clearly enough?????

I've got exactly the same problem as you, except I don't have my own website. I do however have my own domain name, which I use for e-mails. Some of the messages being returned to me, that I have 'supposedly' sent, are large files, so I have no idea what is being sent to other people from my e-mail address. Every day my inbox is clogged up with 'failure notices' and 'delivery failures' etc.