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How to block image only spam in outlook?
Keywords aren’t working as any text that appears in the “from” or “subject” field, or message body, is encoded, and/or the body is just an embedded image hosted on a random rotating website. The email domains rotate every single email (they are all just random word + random word @ random word + random word . com) The spam filter is catching them and moving them to junk but I’d like to know if there’s a way to block them or delete them so I don’t even have to see them.
I receive so many of these daily from affiliate marketers for the same companies: National Debt Relief, Optima Tax, TruGreen, Amerisave, First American Home Warranty, Thermivest, Keranique, Orangetheory, Miracle Sheets, eHarmony, Empire Today, VSP Vision Plans, Canvas Prints, Jacuzzi Bath Remodel, AARP, Blissy, Healthcare.com, Debt Relief, Life Line Screening, Leaf Filter, JG Wentworth.
I never want to see the names of any of these companies in any folder in my email again. Is this possible or am I going to have to go through the hellish process of starting a new email and moving everything over?
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If the messages are already filtered out automatically, there isn't much that you can do to permanently delete them directly via a rule. This is because rules work after the Junk Email filter to prevent them from still landing in your regular folders.
You can however run a rule manually to still have them removed permanently before you further analyze your Junk Email folder for false-positives.
For step-by-step instructions to do this see; Applying message rules to the Junk E-mail folder - Robert 365
Your suggested alternative of starting over entirely with a new mailbox isn't needed. If you want to start over with a new email address, you can add a new alias to your existing Microsoft Account. You could remove the old one, but be aware that this address will then be gone for good. The contents of your mailbox and everything else linked to your Microsoft Account will remain.
The links below contain more info about the difference between closing/deleting your account and creating a new one, and adding and removing aliases (email addresses) to your existing account.
See; Close your Outlook.com account - Microsoft Support
And; Add or remove an email alias in Outlook.com - Microsoft Support
