More spam questions

[Byff]

I run windows 98 with Outlook. I've got my rules running and about 50% of spam gets picked up, however, I noticed that the ones slipping through (the ones with normal words in the header that I can't include in the specific words list) all seem to come from the address 217.12.12.** where ** is anywhere between 30-70.

Does anyone know of a way to include a rule which looks at the sender address information so I can move all 217.12.12.** messages into a different folder?

BTW, the information I'm refering to is if you right click a message and select options.

[obi]

That address range appears to belong to yahoo.com.
You may want to do something with any mail from that domain.
If you are still having problems try a free program called mailwasher. It has stopped all my spam from in excess of 60 a day to about 10 a week.

Hope that helps

[stuuu]

obi's solution is best but if you want to block all of those IPs you can set a rule in Outlook "with specific words in the header" and set the specific word to the IP address you want to block.

Also may be worth looking in the header for any SPAM fields as some ISPs spam check all e-mails but only block spam to people who pay. If this is the case you could have a line which says SPAM=Yes which you can set a similar rule up to trap.

Stu