"C. Roy Blye" wrote in message
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Hello,

I get approximately 6.23 x 10^23 spams every day with the word "PHARMACY"
in the body text, so being a smart guy, I created a message rule to kick
those messages into the Delete folder. Problem is, it hasn't been working.
To make matters more mysterious, when I send MYSELF a test message with
the word "pharmacy" in the body text, it winds up in the delete folder as
it should.

Anybody know what gives?

Thanks,
Roy



Hi Roy
These .gif type spams are like a picture and so message rules cannot read
any text in them. Most come with a coloured background and coloured
lettering.
See if your ISP can stop these for you in your Mail Box.
ISPs are slowly starting to offer spam blocking, but not all can block these
..gif type.
If they do you may need to go into the Mail Box every 7 days or so and check
that there are no genuine emails caught in there. Most ISPs that provide
this service, auto-delete on a 7 day cycle.
There is a very long winded message rule that I have read does stop them -
what you do is set the message rule to block anything that does NOT contain
a letter of the alphabet i.e. 26 rules. ;-(
Rgds
Antioch