I have got bored with spam, and wanted a list of the domains of the spammers,
for better filtering.

I spent all day trying to make sence of VBA (having been a database
applications programmer, and having professionally done real time
data-logging and control Basic programming).

Then I exported the folder of spam e-mails to Access, and all the e-mail
addresses were there to see with no programming at all!

Then I copied the FromAddress field to a new field called "domain", and did
a wildcard search and replace... Search for *@ at the begining of the field,
and replace with nothing.

Dick Roadnight, UK

"Mike in Venice" wrote:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me with this. I'm gonna blow my brains out if I
can't figure this out soon LOL!

I'm very computer savvy, but I have zero VB experience. I have been
searching for a way to define a custom column in Outlook 2000 that will show
the sender's email in the Inbox. I know this is something they built-out of
Outlook for security reasons, but it blows my mind that it is not something
that I can choose to do. I cannot STAND viewing sender by a name that they
put in. It wastes my time dealing with spam, and I prefer to work with
contacts via their email addresses. I have found this complaint widespread in
my search to do this task which should be simple and obvious to Microsoft.

My actual question is this. I installed Redemption and it does show in my
addins. I have found VBScripts (from Sue Mosher and a couple others) that say
that this can be accomplished through Redemption or CDO, but I have NO idea
how to implement them. I can open them in the VB editor in Outlook, but the
whole thing is not very user friendly, and no one has published a simple file
that I can copy into a directory, use as a form or whatever I need to do, and
explained how to define a custom field that simply shows the sender's email
address! This is INSANE to me LOL! I don't understand why this is so hard to
track down.

PLEASE help. I can follow any complex instructions... I just need the
instruction.

Thanks SO much in advance. I have spent probably 15 hours just searching and
experimenting trying to do this one little thing, and I am nowhere with it. I
will most certainly switch to ACT or something that will let me show the
sender's email as a field in the inbox if I don't resolve this.

Thanks again!

--
Michael Robinson
Venice, CA