'Rules' Not Working

[Standing Wolf]

I've been trying to eliminate all the spam emails I get on a daily basis by selecting "Rules" and then establishing a rule that an email with that subject line - "Wild Alaskan Salmon" or "Silver Singles Online" or whatever - be moved to the Trash folder. My mail program is Outlook, if that's pertinent. Anyway, it isn't working. I get emails from the same ten or twelve outfits, companies, scammers, whatever they are, almost every day. Any suggestions?

[Peter1469]

I use Outlook for work. The only thing I have had success with was tagging emails as junk. But since it is a business account it may be more robust.

My personal email is AOL. I know... But its spam filter is the best that I have seen. Much better than google or yahoo.

[Dr. Who]

I've been trying to eliminate all the spam emails I get on a daily basis by selecting "Rules" and then establishing a rule that an email with that subject line - "Wild Alaskan Salmon" or "Silver Singles Online" or whatever - be moved to the Trash folder. My mail program is Outlook, if that's pertinent. Anyway, it isn't working. I get emails from the same ten or twelve outfits, companies, scammers, whatever they are, almost every day. Any suggestions?

If they are all from the same set of email addresses, you can set the rule to target those addresses.

[Standing Wolf]

If they are all from the same set of email addresses, you can set the rule to target those addresses.

I actually haven't made note of the addresses they're coming from, but I suspect they have some kind of device that generates random, b.s. domains, however that would work, because nearly all of them seem to come from random nonsense names like @mxyzptlk.dc. I'm curious now to see whether the addresses do change from one day to the next; I think they do, but I'm not sure.

[Common]

I've been trying to eliminate all the spam emails I get on a daily basis by selecting "Rules" and then establishing a rule that an email with that subject line - "Wild Alaskan Salmon" or "Silver Singles Online" or whatever - be moved to the Trash folder. My mail program is Outlook, if that's pertinent. Anyway, it isn't working. I get emails from the same ten or twelve outfits, companies, scammers, whatever they are, almost every day. Any suggestions?

First problem is your email program, my email program allows me to blacklist the email address or the entire domain by a simple right click.

Outlook and even Firefox is lacking....

Try this email program its free, keep in mind like anything else it takes a little bit to get acclimated.

Download EM client

https://www.emclient.com/download

[Collateral Damage]

I actually haven't made note of the addresses they're coming from, but I suspect they have some kind of device that generates random, b.s. domains, however that would work, because nearly all of them seem to come from random nonsense names like @mxyzptlk.dc. I'm curious now to see whether the addresses do change from one day to the next; I think they do, but I'm not sure.

I was going to suggest the same, but you've found your own answer: Yes, they have auto generators for source emails, or infect someone's email to send the emails (this was done to my work email) so they can't be blocked.

Good luck!

[Dr. Who]

I actually haven't made note of the addresses they're coming from, but I suspect they have some kind of device that generates random, b.s. domains, however that would work, because nearly all of them seem to come from random nonsense names like @mxyzptlk.dc. I'm curious now to see whether the addresses do change from one day to the next; I think they do, but I'm not sure.

I don't have Outlook handy, but perhaps you can target the domain.

[BenjaminO]

I actually haven't made note of the addresses they're coming from, but I suspect they have some kind of device that generates random, b.s. domains, however that would work, because nearly all of them seem to come from random nonsense names like @mxyzptlk.dc. I'm curious now to see whether the addresses do change from one day to the next; I think they do, but I'm not sure.

Peter had the best suggestion for Outlook.
Right click the email and go to "Junk Email" then Add the sender to the Blocked sender list.
All subsequent emails from that sender will go to Junk. You can then check it once and a while and then empty it.
It's as close to blocking the domain as possible with Outlook.
It works fine for me.
Be careful when blocking an entire domain.
If you, for example, block the gmail domain, all email from anyone using gmail will be blocked.

[DGUtley]

I use rules a lot. Let me look. I was toying with trying to do the same thing

[Standing Wolf]

Peter had the best suggestion for Outlook.
Right click the email and go to "Junk Email" then Add the sender to the Blocked sender list.
All subsequent emails from that sender will go to Junk. You can then check it once and a while and then empty it.
It's as close to blocking the domain as possible with Outlook.
It works fine for me.
Be careful when blocking an entire domain.
If you, for example, block the gmail domain, all email from anyone using gmail will be blocked.

I just checked some of the messages in my Trash folder, and as I suspected they come from a different "address" each and every time. One time it will come from "xyzpdq@sob.com" and the next time the same ad will come from an entirely different address. Blocking by subject doesn't seem to work at all, and how do you block by sender when the sender changes every time?