I started using Outlook a few months ago and have gotten very aggressive and
moving spam to a "junk mail" folder.
I don't want to move it immediately to trash, because I do need to review
the subject lines in case something personal accidentally gets moved there
(or something from a list like this one ... for example, if you include
"!!!" in your subject line, it looks like spam to my filters, or if you say
in the body "make a million dollars ..." it's spam ...
I have rules set up that catch keywords in the subject and the body. I also
use the "junk senders" list in Outlook.
I have four personal accounts I use. All of them, over the years, have been
found by spammers some way or another. I've gotten as many as 100 spam
messages in a day and average more than 20.
I'm using Outlook 2000. It has a "mail rules" control panel. Find it. Use
it. It's not difficult to figure out how it works. One tip, though, in the
section where you select to move the file to a specified folder, be sure to
also check the "stop processing" check box, otherwise you wind up with the
message moved to the proper folder, but also a duplicate in the Inbox.
If you are using an older version of Outlook, you have Inbox Assistant,
which isn't as powerful or flexible. However, I think there is a "mail
rules" plugin available, or something like that.
You can find out more at this Web site: http://www.slipstick.com/
Another thing I've gotten more aggressive about is trying to identify the
providers for these spammers. Very few spammers are big enough or
sophisticated enough to have their own servers and DNS servers. Most have
some sort of host for their Web site (many include their Web site in their
e-mail), so I send e-mail to "webmaster@", "postmaster@" and "abuse@".
If they include a toll free number, I use my cell phone, which blocks the
caller ID, and talk to whomever answers the phone until they hang up on me,
complaining the whole time, of course, about the spam. And making sure at
some point they know I only called to cost them money on their toll-free
bill.
(after I finished this message, I looked a little at the slapstick site. On
this page (http://www.slipstick.com/addins/auto.htm) is a link to download
the "rules wizard," if you need it.)
H.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kola Oyedeji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:38 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Block junk mail
Does anyone know how to block Junk mail in outlook? All the Junk mail
feature seems to do
is let me change known spammers to a different colour. Is there a way to
bounce emails from
a certain user without having to set up a rule?
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