Eliminate Image Spam in Outlook
Almost all e-mail programs block images. So why is it that they still show up? A spammer’s latest tactic to get into your inbox is to embed images within the e-mail itself. Here’s a way to block all e-mail with embedded images by sending them to your spam folder in Outlook. This works in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.
- Select Tools | Rules and Alerts
- Click New Rule…
- Start from a blank rule
- Select the condition with specific words in the message header
- Click on “specific words” to enter them in
- Enter “multipart/related” without the quotes, and then click Add
- Enter “Multipart/related;” without the quotes, and then click Add
- Click OK
- Click Next
- Select the action more it to the specified folder
- Click on “specified”, select your junk mail folder, and then click OK
- At this point, you can click Finish
You may get some false positives, but it should cut out most of your image spam.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:51 am
This is good, thanks. However, it does scoop up other normal emails that have images embedded. I guess I’ll have to keep checking my junk mail filter from time to time.