If SpamBayes adds something to the subject line of the messages that it determines is spam, it's very easy to set up a rule in Outlook Express to divert or delete them. If you want them to go into a special folder, create the folder first if it doesn't exist yet:
>From the main window of Outlook Express, click File > New Folder > give it a name (i.e. Spam) and decide if you want it in Local Folders or as a sub-folder of an existing folder - highlight wherever you want it to go and click OK. Now create the message rule: Tools > Message Rules > Mail. In the New Mail Rule box, select the condition first - Where the Subject line contains certain words - check the checkbox. Then select the action for the rule: check either Move it to the specified folder, or Delete it - whichever is your preference. In the third section Rule Description, click on the underlined values to edit them. For Where the Subject line "contains specific words", click on "contains specific words", type the word or phrase that SpamBayes adds to the Subject line, click Add and OK. For Move it to the "specified" folder, click on "specified", expand the folders if you need to by clicking on the plus sign next to them, highlight the folder you want them moved to and click OK - if you are deleting them this step is not required. (I don't know what OE does when deleting marked messages with a mail rule - it may move them to the Deleted Items folder or it might delete them completely.) Give your mail rule a name to make it easier to edit later if you need to and click OK twice. If you have an earlier version of Outlook Express than version 6 the step by step may not be identical but it is very similar. Marc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Skip Montanaro Sent: May 5, 2005 4:36 PM To: Carol Morris Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spambayes] conitnuous spam Carol> Hi there. For the last three days I have bombarded with the same Carol> spam messages....host, your password attached, here it is, here Carol> it is, generally in the subject line or message body. I keep Carol> training as SPAM, but they keep coming, and it is being Carol> identified as SPAM by spambayes. Is there anyway to actually Carol> stop these from coming into my Outlook Express mailbox? They Carol> just keep filling it up and I am going away for the weekend and Carol> will come back with hundreds of them waiting to be opened. I Carol> have run the virus scan and have contacted roadrunner, but no Carol> success there. Thanks for any advise. Using XP and express. Carol, Unfortunately, everyone is being bombarded with these messages. Short of applying some sort of filter in Outlook Express to delete messages that SpamBayes marks as spam (is that something OE filters can do?) I'm not sure there's much to be done but grit your teeth and wait for the storm to subside. -- Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
