Buried in Spam

December 3, 2014 10:56 PM

I've recently been "discovered" by some spammers and I need to learn how to create a rule in MS Outlook to either not accept these emails or to move them directly to my junk mail folder. The emails are all from some configuration of @*.* .eu or @*.* .in. Help!
posted by summerstorm to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Unfortunately there is no point. Blocking an entire country's domain (India) then an entire group of countries domain (europe) is going to block legitimate mail too. Even if you were to do that, you'd spend the rest of your life managing outlook rules as the spammers use different forged domains to send you e-mail.

A better decision would be to let whoever manages the server add server-level junk mail filtering which uses blacklists and blocks compromised servers. If the person who manages the server is someone big, like Google, then they will also have decent content level filtering that will save you from drowning in outlook rules.
posted by devnull at 11:31 PM on December 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Are you absolutely committed to sticking with MS Outlook? In my experience, Outlook's junk mail filtering manages the technically difficult feat of having really high rates for both false positives and false negatives at the same time.

Thunderbird has a much less incompetent adaptive junk mail filter.
posted by flabdablet at 11:58 PM on December 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

Forward all your email to Gmail, which will handle the spam filtering for you. Then use IMAP in Outlook with the Gmail account, if you really want to keep using Outlook.
posted by COD at 5:25 AM on December 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Click on "Junk" within the "Delete" section of the ribbon in mail.
Select "Junk E-Mail Options"
Click on the "International" tab.
Click on the "Blocked Top-Level Domain List..." button.
Check the boxes next to "IN" and "EU".
Click "OK" and then "OK" again.

If you cannot see "EU" then this is because the TLD went live in 2005 and this list wasn't updated after that happened. However, don't worry, just follow these instructions to include it.
posted by mr_silver at 10:15 AM on December 5, 2014