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Ron Sommer
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      01-04-2010
Trying to filter on 'hi' will also catch any words with hi in the word.
high, hit, ship, ........
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Ron Sommer
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"wim" <> wrote in message
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> Since about a week I keep receiving the same spam-mail : it reads "hi" in
> the subject header. I tried to block it creating a new e-mail rule, but
> there seems to be a bug. When a try to type in "hi" ("containing the
> word(s)" in the subject header), the rule appears as : "containing
> "containing hi' " (doubles the word containing). I'm sorry if the
> translation is not correct since I'm using the Dutch version, perhaps it
> is not "containing", but however : the problem is that he not only puts
> the word "hi" in the mail rule (the one I typed), but that he also repeats
> a word from the program itself, so that I am not able to simply put "hi"
> in the subject header of the mailrule.
> Hope this is clear enough. Anyone experiencing the same problem ?
> I get hundreds of this spam mail every day.
>
> Thank you for helping me out,
> Wim


 
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