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blocking emails by ip?

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nealric

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Im on a university network, so I have no admin priveleges or acess to the spam filter.

I keep ketting semi-porn emails from the same sender (differnet name), its the only spam I get on the account- so It would be really nice to get rid of em.
Ive been adding each email to the blocked sender list, but the name keeps changing in sender so that dosent work.

Any plug in or whatnot to outlook that lets me block their ip range?
 
Try blocking them from with your host file.
Not 100% if that will work but worth a try
 
If the emails are all coming from the same host with only the account name changed, add block implementing a wildcard for the account name. For example, instead of setting individual rules for [email protected], [email protected], etc., you would make one rule for *@host.com. This will block all emails originating from that host.

If you're using Outlook, and not Express, you can add an entire hostname in the Junk Email options.
 
If they are all coming from one IP, run a WHOIS on the IP address and find the abuse email address (usually abuse@), bundle up a few of the emails as examples, and forward them off as attachments with a note saying that there is a spammer on their network.

If the network admins have any sense, they'll look into it, and stop it. Chances are it's just a misconfigured mail server or proxy that someone's exploiting.
 
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