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I'm glad we can at least block by domains, but the bad players out there of course know that, so they insert a minimum of one character and a period to avoid that. I can block a lot of junk doing just that, but adding the domain is futile. Yes Microsoft can divert some to my Junk folder, but I do not think there is one logical reason that anyone who is not on my Safe List <boolean AND> is on my Blocked Senders List can be physically dropped and not just diverted to my full Junk folder. That's an additional thing that could be done.
The users are responsible for adding to both lists so if they do, MS Outlook should just delete it permanently. Is this feature ever going to catch up to the 21st century? The domain part was great years ago. The logic to implement this should be pretty easy as I see tons of features I'll never use that may be more complicated.
I prefer Outlook to Gmail, but sooner or later Google will get smart to add it. Our IT team would have had this in on time and this is not meant to name drop, but to lend a little leverage to the point. I've seen this feature brought up in forums already.
Where do we put this in as a requirement? I'm hoping it would be taken seriously and not just "ok/sure great idea" in here. Please add this to the plate/queue.
Since the mobile app doesn't do blocking list editing this should just be a Windows thing.
For example, I get a domain like ******@smith.garbage.com so I block it as @smith.garbage.com but they'll use a stone.garbage.com and you have to add that. I have a long list I can provide of domains doing this to bypass things.
small subsets below:
@50216369348.proterra.com
@50255398857.proterra.com
@87487103211.proterra.com
@88944942961.proterra.com
@8452.cole.emspublishingusa.com
@8600.cole.emspublishingusa.com
@tmges.lessonsbee.com
@tsvkh.lessonsbee.com
@ubxud.lessonsbee.com
@vefkl.lessonsbee.com
@wykzw.lessonsbee.com
@xmisz.lessonsbee.com
@clznt.lessonsbee.com
@uhfdn.statehealthquote.com
@uibxw.statehealthquote.com
@ujknt.statehealthquote.com
@gjdty.bicycleogy.com
@gnqam.bicycleogy.com
@huikn.bicycleogy.com
@nwuoa.bicycleogy.com
@wuqgh.bicycleogy.com
@marquezwells.doloresthain.com
@richardson.doloresthain.com
@robinson.doloresthain.com
@stokes.doloresthain.com
@valdez.doloresthain.com
@wilkinsonsmith.doloresthain.com
@chambersscott.doloresthain.com
Thanks!
Alan
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1000?? Why so many? Are you talking about the following setting?
I only have 1 email address and 3 domain names (in my Blocked list) that I added years ago. I am sure those spammers have changed their email address and domain names a long time ago. In other words, that blocked sender/domain does absolutely nothing today.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I remember those VCR days. I agree it is such a slope, but I think if it is applied right perhaps something a person has to sign up or add on. That doesn't preclude anyone from getting wide-eyed though and thinking this is a great thing and as you say, a dangerous thing. However, I think putting a mask on is just an additional step that they already allow cutting it down to a domain. I will see if I can add it.
What "masking" are you referring to? Wildcard subdomain blocking such as @*.doloresthain.com? If that's correct, static blocking like that is the wrong approach. Spammers can easily change the domain name to *.d0l0restha1n.com and they have billions of random addresses to generate and use. How are you going to block them?
IMHO end users should not have to manually block spam. Server side spam filters should sanitize most spam (incoming/outgoing) from making it into (or out of) users mailbox. What I don't understand is why with all the latest authenticated email mechanism (SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNS blacklist database etc) Microsoft spam filter still fails to block the majority of junk email. Spammers still outsmart Microsoft spam filter.
Hello AlanJY
Hi, I'm Karl and will be happy to help you today.
Just so there is no misunderstanding, this is a public user-to-user support forum. We're users just like you helping other users. We do not work for Microsoft and have no access to any user account so there is nothing we can do or check from within the forum. No one can speak for Microsoft or has any inside information of what will or will not be included in the future in terms of features etc.
On a general note, there is no option to prevent something from being delivered to the mailbox and there is no indication that will change any time soon, if ever.
What you can do is add your suggestions to the Outlook.com feedback portal which is reviewed by Microsoft
Feedback Hub - Outlook.com
That feature is available on the business side of Microsoft 365.
I have a list of about 1,000 domains I block from ever reaching my user's mailboxes. The majority of those are malware or phishing senders. It takes a lot of work and is constantly changing.
To think the average home user could manage that successfully and not end up blocking a whole bunch of domains they really want might be why Microsoft doesn't. I think of my parents who were the classic non-techs who had the flashing clock on their VCR as people who would likely do something wrong with settings like this.
So it's a slippery slope.
Use the Feedback mechanism in Outlook to make a product suggestion. Microsoft does look at them and gets an idea how many requests are made for a particular feature before deciding if they'll put it on their to-do list for development.
