Blocking domain users

[nickj]

Like loads of others, I'm currently getting about 40 spam mails each day and they are all from aol.com users. I know that I can use the Blocked Senders list to put them straight in the Deleted Items folder, but is there any way that I can set up Outlook Express so that it doesn't download messages from that domain? I only have a couple of aol.com users in my address book and could let them know in advance.

[j2buttonsw]

Yes you can! Create a mail rule (Tools > message rule > mail) and in the "select action" for rule tick the "Do not download it from the server" box. Beware that you will not download genuine aol.com messages.

[j2buttonsw]

Oh, you can exclude your genuine aol.com users from this rule.

[nickj]

I understand what j2buttonsw is talking about, but before I tick the "do not download it from the server" box, how do I identify in the first section that I want to exclude all aol.com users, not just specific names?

[j2buttonsw]

OK in the New Mail Rule tick "Where the From line contains people" and in the Rule description click the blue contains people, select the email addresses of the known emails at aol.com from the address book and in the "Select the Actions for your rule" tick "move it to the specified folder". Click the blue specified folder in the rule description and create a new folder in the Inbox called "Known AOL", select and OK. Call this rule "AOL exempt". Create another mail rule with the "Where the From line contains people" contains aol.com and the action is "don't download it from the server". Call this rule "No AOL" then OK. You have 2 rules but the collecting mails from known aol.com users is processed before the not downloading rule.