Elmer,

Have you ever tried using the Tools/Message Rules/Mail...?

They are pretty powerful. Although there's not a specific that says "anyone in my address book" option you can enumerate your address book to the list yourself every so often.

I have about a dozen rules setup. Two of them are used to delete spam before it even hits my inbox based on From addresses. A couple of them move suspected spams to the Deleted folder based on text found inside the email body. The rest shuffle specific emails to different folders.

Here's one of my spam deleter rules:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains '@www.com' or 'vmadmin' or 'onebox.com' or 'dupong.com' or 'adprosolutions' or 'freebizmag' or 'offers.net' or 'equalamail' or 'offers.com' or 'optin' or 'btamail' or '@mail.com' or 'wackywilliam' or 'dde.dk' or 'opmnetwork' or 'emailfactory' or 'maildb.egreetings' or 'infousa.com' or 'websitetracker' or 'apsmailer' or 'permissionpass' or 'zqxtyn' or 'aps-mailer' or 'free4all' or 'adpromailer' or 'businesscreditusa' or 'offers@' or 'adprosender' or 'verticalresponse' or 'ecometry' or 'time-2-win' or 'winning.com' or 'quickinspirations' or 'optdeals' or 'coopt.marketsvc' or '1sourcedeals' or '.offers' or 'tytcorp' or 'myrealbox' or 'promosvc' or 'offrtz' or 'myfreerewards' or 'EXIE LEAL'
Delete it from server

This rule works during the message header retrevial pass if any of the listed domains or fragments occur in the From address the mail is simply deleted from the server, the body is never downloaded.

Here's a rule that gets rid of the sort of junk that comes from yahoo and hotmail:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains 'yahoo.com' or 'hotmail.com' or 'juno.com'
and Where the To line contains 'undisclosed'
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

This one handles some of the common junk in the subject line:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the Subject line contains 'HGH' or 'viagra' or 'free Euro' or 'copy any dvd' or 'human growth' or 'Merchant Services'
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

My ISP has started using Brightmail to filter emails and it does a pretty decent job, although it also filters some legitimate newsletters that I'm subscribed to from IBM and SoftwareDevelopment because they unforunately use email-publisher.com (topica.com) to distribute the newsletter and topica is a bad spamhuas.

>I just just sent a suggestion to Microsoft to add another type of message rule for Outlook and OE that would allow the user to specify that ONLY email from the addresses contained in their personal address book, or from the news groups that they have specifically set up to arrive in their inbox. All others could automatically be routed to a junk mail (or suspect items) folder that can be perused if you want to do so, but your inbox would always be free of the normal daily trash. While this may not be a viable filter for businesses (though it may), I’m sure that it would be a welcome addition for a large percentage of the home market. I think that this would be about the easiest type of filter to implement and should be very effective.