Could you help me with this Mail Filter?

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Spam is coming from gmail.com in the form of " [email protected] " . Numbers are often changing.

I tried to put a filter " email*@gmail.com " but it did not work.

Any suggestions please?

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Which email program are you using? Some don't recognize wildcards. In outlook you'd want to create a filter that blocks all senders with the word "email" in the address.

Have you tried using a third party spam filter like Mailwasher? It has a free version (for one acc't only)that works well.

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Thank you for your answer Fink.
My hosting Company is ICDsoft.com. I would like to create a filter on that server.
As I said " email*@gmail.com " did not work.
Do you know how should I create this particular Filter to block "[email protected]"...numbers are always changing.
Thank you

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Still, we need to know what email program you're using to read the mail. Presumeably the email servers own spam filters, if they exist, are set only by the owners of that hosting company so you need to tell us what program you're using.

Is it a webmail based interface?... are you using your browser? If so it may be a bit more difficult to figure out how to set up a filter if it isn't a commonly used GUI(interface to access the email).

[SpywareDr]

For example, in Outlook 2003:

1. Click Tools | Rules and Alerts...
2. Click New Rule...
3. Select Start from a blank rule and click Next >
4. Scroll down a bit and select "with specific words in the sender's address"
5. In the bottom pane, click the "specific words" link
6. In the "Specify a word or phrase to search for in the sender's address:" box, type in the word email and click OK
7. Click Next >
8. Select "Move to the specified folder"
9. In the bottom pane, click the "specified" folder link, click the "Junk E-mail" folder and click OK
10. Click Finish, Apply, OK.

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Thank you for your answers guys.
Basically I log on to ICDsoft website with my IE7. I go to my "webmail" and read my mails. And you can set up filters on ICDsoft webmail. That is where I want to setup a filter so I can have them rejected as soon as they arrive to ICDsoft.

I have various filters like;
*@merter.com
*@ofapfh.com
[email protected]

But as I said above NUMBERS are always changing.....for instance "email8* becomes "email6754".......so how do I make a filter for this? I just could not work it out.

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Are you sure that the webmail program recognizes wildcards? I can't recall having seen many that do myself. It's quite possible that the other ones you've made with wildcards just havent' had to be tested since they're all from fake, throwaway domain names that would not be used more than once like "merter"... and the reason it seems to work is that you've simply never gotten another email from them after the first and only one.

Gmail is of course a commonly used email domain so you can't block everything from them (the simplest, recommended filter for that would simply be "gmail.com".

I had a look at that website and saw no instructions on their web based email setup. Are there any help or support links available once you've logged into your email acc't?

I'm inclined to think that unless you can use a more robust pop email program like outlook or an antispam program like I mentioned above you won't be able to use a wildcard filter like you want.

Having said all that you could do a few pretty easy experiments. Make a few more filters using an asterix for a single character so you'd have 4 or 5 filters that look like

email*@
email**@

etc. (see link in post below for more advanced expressions if it seems that your
email acc't allows them)


Also try an experiment and make a filter using an asterix for an email acc't from a friend or another one you own and see if you or they can send an email that gets through.

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My webmail acc't with my ISP allows regular expressions in advanced filter mode and only on the server side (not my client/browser) and it specifically says so in the drop down boxes and has a specific window to enter them. I could not use them unless they were in that regex enabled box and for the servers own rules, not my browsers.... See if there's an option in yours to do that.

regular expressions..

http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

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Fink Wrote
Also try an experiment and make a filter using an asterix for an email acc't from a friend or another one you own and see if you or they can send an email that gets through.

Great Suggestion Fink.
Thank you so much.