In a recent message Jeremy C B Nicoll <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In article <ec0f468a4e.Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> You can delete the spam addressed to an old Message-ID with a rule: >> Delete Envelope-To: = *.<your address>* (note the dot, it is vital). > > Surely that only works if the message-ids contain dots before the <your > address> part? > Yes, but all(?) the ones that I have seen are of this form. Leave out the dot and you loose the lot. Using 'Envelope-To:' gets around a lot of fake 'To:'s. In the unlikely event that you have a real sender that uses this form, flame them. BTW I've just had my first identified Deborah :-( -- Dave Keep GMT all year