Stopping email spam completely is almost impossible in today’s world. However, one of the worst (and usually embarrassing) types of spam you can get is the “make your dick bigger” email, especially if you’re at work, and even worse if it has photos. Fortunately, Outlook and Vista Mail (not Outlook Express) have a nice feature that allows us to remove this or any other type of spam from reaching our mailbox.
The steps for Vista Mail and Outlook are similar, so I’ll only include steps for both when there are differences between the two. Also, it’s best to do these steps when you still have the spam you want to block.
1.Go to Tools
2.In Vista Mail, choose “Message Rules” and then “Mail”. In Outlook, choose “Rules and Alerts”.
3.In Outlook, choose “New rule”, and then in the “Start from a blank rule” box, choose “Check messages when they arrive”. Now press “Next”.
4.From the “Select Conditions” box; in Vista Mail, put a check mark next to “Where the subject line contains specific words” and another check mark next to “Where the body of the message contains specific words”; in Outlook, put a check mark on “with specific jobs in the subject or body”.
5.From the “Rule description” box; in Vista Mail, click the FIRST blue underlined link “contains specific words”; In Outlook, click the blue underlined “specific words” link.
6. In the box above, enter a word that is used in this message that makes it offensive, such as “penis” or “enlargement”, you can also use phrases such as “big penis”.
7.Each time you enter a new word or phrase, click “Add”
8. When you’ve added all the words and phrases, press “OK”, don’t worry, you can add more later.
9.In Vista Mail from the box “Description of the rule”; click the blue underlined link “y” now change it to the second option “Messages match any of the criteria”; press “OK”. The link underlined in blue should change to “or”.
10.In Vista Mail from the box “Description of the rule”; click on the SECOND blue underlined link “contains specific words”. Now repeat steps 6 through 8 using the same words as before.
11.In Outlook press “Next”
12.From the “Select Actions” box, place a check mark on “delete it”
13.In Outlook press “Next” and then “Next” again
14. In the “Name this rule” box, give the rule an appropriate name, such as “penis enlargement spam blocker”.
15.In Vista Mail, click “OK” and then “OK” again. In Outlook, click “Finish” and then “OK”.
That’s it; From now on, any email containing the words you added above will be automatically deleted. If you want to add more words later or remove some, go to “Tools”, then in Vista Mail, go to “Message Rules” and then “Mail”; now make sure the correct rule is selected in the top box and in the “Rule description” box click the FIRST blue underlined link “contains…” repeat for the SECOND blue underlined link “contains…” with the same words; In Outlook, click on “Rules and Alerts”, now make sure the correct rule is selected in the top box and in the “Rule Description” box, click on the blue underlined link.
•Be careful NOT to add generic terms like “cock” because this will block any email that has the word “cock” in the email, even if this is your boss’s first name. A specific phrase like “big dick” should be fine, unless one of your co-workers complains and uses a phrase like “Kyle is a bigger dick than Jack” then his eyes will never see this email.
•This guide will not work if you use Outlook Express
•If the Rules and Alerts option is not available in Outlook, it means that you have not set up an email address to use in Outlook.
•The version of Outlook used in this guide is the one that comes with Microsoft Office 2007, if you are using a different version of MS Office then your Outlook may be slightly different, but it will still be similar enough for this guide to work for you .