I am constantly receiving email in my Outlook 2007 with undisclosed-recipients in the TO: field. Obviously it is spam and it goes right into my junk email folder as such. The return addresses are usualy "noreply- ....... etc". Is there a way to block this useless email from even getting to me? Can I set up a rule so as not to accept any email not directed to my specific email address? Thanks.

Hi iflog ,
To solve your issue of filtering undisclosed recipients just follow these steps:

• Goto Tools->Rules and Alerts
• Click "New Rule"
• Select "Move message from someone to a folder"
• In the from filed give the sender field value is "undisclosed recipients" and give the folder you want to move.
• Click finish to save it or you can set more conditions.

If this solvs the issue well and good but if it doesn't then

• Goto Action
• Junk email->Junk email options.
• Add the sender at the blocked senders

Feel free to reply for further issues
~Dex

Thanks Dexter. I figured out how to make a rule and get the messages that come to me marked undisclosed-recipient deleted with a couple clicks. I would actually like them to be deleted before they get to me but..........I'll work on that. Now I have to figure out how to do that with messages I am receiving with nothing in the "to" column. How do I get email without my address being listed on it?

Hi iflog
The rule you created works when the mail is received and then the filter rules are activated it is not possible to delete directly from server as you want them to get deleted before reaching you and in my knowledge you cannot remove your name from someone's mailing list .You can just filter the messages .
Thanks
~Dex

Is there any sort of auto reply to a message. For instance if I put you on a list of people I do not want to receive email from, can Outlook automatically reply and delete the message without me even viewing it? If not I think I have a new job working at Microsoft as a coder.

Hi I flog
Well in MS Outlook you can make a rule to reply back specific message to address but however you cannot ask Outlook to auto delete those message although it is possible using macro feature where you need to provide coding and program Outlook in such a way that it replies the spammers and deletes the mail as well.However temporarily I am providing you a solution to make a rule for auto reply to the undisclosed addresses .First, you need to create a message template or the message which you want the receiver to be addressed with.

• Compose a new Outlook message
• In the message body, type whatever information you would like to appear in your automatic reply.
• From the File menu, click Save As
• Enter a name to save your file as
• In the Save as type box click Outlook template
• Click Save
• From the File menu, click Close. When prompted to save, click No.

Now the next step is to create a rule. Which I showed you earlier you just need to follow these changes :

• After clicking on create new rule
• Click Check messages when they arrive and then click Next
• In the Which condition(s) do you want to check list, select the From people or distribution list check box
• In the Rule description list, click the underlined phrase, people or distribution list
• Click OK and then click Next
• Then in the What do you want to do with the message list, select the Reply using a specific template check box
• In the Rule description list, click the underlined phrase, a specific template
• In the Look in drop-down list, click User Templates in File System
• Click the template you previously created, click Open and then click Next
• Select the check box next to any exception that you want and then click Next
• In the Please specify a name for this rule box, type a name for the rule
• Click Finish and then click OK

If you get confused or face any other difficulty revert back
Thanks
~Dex

I did that with a template message " You have been permanently blocked from this e-mail address. Any e-mail in the future will result in you receiving this message." Then I thought about it. I don't want the person that sent the spam to know that I received it. I would rather just block their email address so I never receive mail from them again.

Hey iflog,
Well it's good to see that the issue is now solved.Feel free to ask for further queries.
Thanks
~Dex

Thanks for all the help. I took a mental health break for a while but now I'm back. I notice in the junk e-mail options there is a radio button or check box if you will, for permanently deleting suspected junk email instead of moving it to the junk e-mail folder. I fear that may catch something I may want to see so I haven't checked that box. What I would like to do is maybe create a rule that says "permanently delete email received from people on my blocked senders list". This way when I recieve e-mail from someone on the list, it would go right to the deleted items folder instead of to the junk e-mail folder where I have to delete it again. Any way of making that happen?