# Outlook Express addy question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-addy-question/164413>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 27, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-addy-question/164413 "2003-03-27T00:09:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-addy-question/164413/1 "2003-03-27T00:09:24Z")

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Okay, I belong to an organization and receive forwarded email from our central account. Let us say, for sake of ease, our account is ‘x’. For the past week or two, we’ve been getting bombarded with spam email to ‘x200’ ‘x3000’ ‘x420’ etc. etc. etc.  
Is there any way to configure Outlook Express so that it will filter off mail that has the extrenious numbers, without getting rid of the stuff I’m supposed to be getting?

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-addy-question/164413/2 "2003-03-27T00:28:13Z")

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Yes. Go to **Tools|Message Rules|Mail**. Check the box for **Where the To line contains people**. Click the contains people link in the third box. Type in your email address and click **Add**. Click the **Options** button. Select **Message does not contain the people below**. Hit **OK** twice. In the second box select either **Delete it** or **Move it to the specified folder**. That should sift out any messages which aren’t sent directly to your address.