Email event limited to certain senders

Question

Is there a way to trigger an email event for only particular senders?  I am not sure how the "Scan for text" works, if I can treat it just like a regular expression or use logical operators or anything.  I highly doubt it.  So is the only way to limit triggering the email event to certain senders is to create multiple email events, one for each sender?
This is for 5.3.1

Answer 1

Am email client such as the Mail application cannot block the download and receipt of messages from a certain sender or email address at the incoming mail server for an account. This can be done at the incoming mail server for an email account only but you can create a rule in Mail to automatically delete messages received from a particular email address when downloaded by Mail.
A problem with spam is that spammers are constantly changing/tweaking their methods including changing the email address used to appear as the sending email address.
Using the Bounce feature on spam is a waste of time since spammers do not use a valid sending or return email address (the reason for a bounced message being returned as an invalid email address) and if they do use a valid email address is due to a valid email address being randomly pulled from a spammers list of valid email addresses (which is constantly being changed) or due to a spammer "taking over" a Windows PC being use to send bulk spam mailings for the spammer without the Windows PC user's knowledge. If a bounced message does not come back as an invalid address, in either circumstance you are bouncing a message back to the valid email address for some unsuspecting person who has no idea what is going on which does you absolutely no good whatsoever which is why you should not use the Bounce feature with spam.
Regarding spammers using Windows PCs and zombies to send bulk spam mailings, check my reply in this thread and included link.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4043118&#4043118
And my reply in this thread and included links.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4040882&#4040882