On 4/3/07 11:21 AM | 4/3, "Claudia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to make entourage pay better attention to incoming and get > all the obvious spam. It is catching most - but the last 2 weeks more > explicit isn't going to junk and the program doesn't seem to be "learning" > that I don't want Britney photos. Hi Claudia! The junk mail filter in Entourage is not a "learning" filter. As you mark items as "junk" you're not teaching it to flag further similar mail as junk. You're simply moving it to your Junk E-mail folder and removing the address from your recently received list that appears as you address new messages. First, the basic steps to flag most junk: 1. Use Entourage's Help --> Check for Updates command to make sure your Entourage version is as up-to-date as possible. The latest version of Entourage is 11.3.3 but the 11.3.4 Office update included new junk mail rules. 2. Set your Junk E-mail Protection to "High" under the Tools menu. Set it to "Exclusive" if you know your address book contains every email address of just those people from whom you wish to receive mail. Or begin using "Exclusive" and begin unflagging junk messages from legitimate senders and adding them to your address book. This is the closest you'll come to "training" Entourage. Now, what more can you do? 3. Private lists like this one require authentication before you can participate. Spammers are very unlikely to subscribe to private lists, which require they too provide a legitimate address, to harvest addresses for their spam lists. But public postings of your email address are sure to get you spam. Never post your email address in public newsgroups, blogs or websites where others can freely see it. If necessary use obfuscated addresses that humans can read but computers may not be able too interpret. For example you could use: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Use multiple addresses and throw away addresses. I have email addresses that I use for different types of communications. One I use for professional correspondence such as submitting résumés or dealing with customers. I use another for lists such as this and for newsgroups (obfuscated in public lists). I use a third for commercial correspondence where I may purchase something online or deal with a bank. And I use a few others for personal mail from friends. .Mac offers an alias feature that allows you to create up to five more email addresses and use them and delete them as you wish. Hotmail and Gmail are good sources for free email addresses that you don't want to keep for a long time. 5. Read this article on the Center for Democracy and Technology website called "Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research Six Month Report". This study took never before email addresses and seeded them in various venues on the Internet. Then over six months, it tracked which addresses got the most spam. Believe it or not, some were never released in public and still got spam. It's a fascinating read. <http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml> Hope this helps! bill -- William M. Smith (Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
