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G26ster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 8:53 pm Well somehow the evildooing spammers are hitting me daily, multiple times. I am trying to block them by creating a rule in Outlook. Their typical email address is:

reply@Fei1xrahtik.date

The part I put in bold italics changes with each email.

I tried to create the rule saying block or delete reply@*.* but that didn't work. I am now trying reply@*.*.date
Any suggestions would be appreciated. BTW, their so-called "unsubscribe link" doesn't work and is bogus.

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:19 pm

G26ster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 8:53 pm Well somehow the evildooing spammers are hitting me daily, multiple times. I am trying to block them by creating a rule in Outlook. Their typical email address is:

reply@Fei1xrahtik.date

The part I put in bold italics changes with each email.

I tried to create the rule saying block or delete reply@*.* but that didn't work. I am now trying reply@*.*.date
Any suggestions would be appreciated. BTW, their so-called "unsubscribe link" doesn't work and is bogus.

Try setting the filter to block email from “*.date” (asterisk dot date)?

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:26 pm You’re welcome. Let me know if it works.

dhoobler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:08 am You are probably blocking the "reply-to" E-mail address, which is possibly not the address the message came from. Open up the header (how you do this depends on your mail client) and find the from address. Try to create a rule to block that address or the domain it came from.

BTW, blocking spam is one of the most frustrating tasks in the I. T. world. I used to do that as part of my job. I managed the spam filters that saw all inbound mail to my company. It is not as easy and as simple as one might think.

"You are probably blocking the "reply-to" E-mail address, which is possibly not the address the message came from. Open up the header (how you do this depends on your mail client) and find the from address. Try to create a rule to block that address or the domain it came from."

dhoobler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:08 am.

BTW, blocking spam is one of the most frustrating tasks in the I. T. world. I used to do that as part of my job. I managed the spam filters that saw all inbound mail to my company. It is not as easy and as simple as one might think.

Syntyr wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:02 pm

dhoobler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:08 am.

BTW, blocking spam is one of the most frustrating tasks in the I. T. world. I used to do that as part of my job. I managed the spam filters that saw all inbound mail to my company. It is not as easy and as simple as one might think.

I am about this | | close to going to a white list. If you are not on the list you dont get through. I currently use SPAMHAUS for my block list.
Even with that I still get 10 to 15 spam messages per day. But I've had the address a long time it's a real short address and I like to use it so. I may actually have to go to a whitelist

To the original poster what version of Outlook or what email clients are you using? you need to be able to look at the headers of the message. I can tell you how to do it if you can tell me what email client you're using.

G26ster wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:24 pm Best suggestions were to relegate the emails to junk folder in Outlook and let Outlook learn the patterns to relegate automatically to junk. So that's what I've done with all the deleted emails. Moved them from deleted to junk.