Blocking more than one sender at a time

[Heather]

Outlook 2007 - I would like to be able to bloxk more than one sender at a
time (I open my mail in the morning and have at least 50 a day I need to
block). I have not found a way through all of my research to do this. I
thought of writing a macro, but have no idea how to go about it. I also saw
Visual Basic Editor, but know even less about this. Can I write a macro in
Outlook? When I click on 'macro', all of the options are turned off.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.
Heather Fabries

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Blocking senders is the most useless way to fight spam - the senders change
every day and you'll end up with nothing more than a blocked senders list
full of useless names. If outlook's junk mail set on high is not sufficenct,
get a different filter.

http://www.slipstick.com/rules/junkmail.asp

 

[David Webb]

If you're blocking messages from known bulk spammers, you're fighting a losing
battle. They use fictitious addresses and change them daily.

If your ISP has a webmail feature then it may offer an option to block all know
spammers for you. In this way, you'll never even see them on your system.

Some ISPs offer an additional option that will only allow messages to pass on to
you that are from people in your contact listing (which you upload to your
account).

Recommend that you look into these options first.

Good luck!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Outlook 2007 - I would like to be able to bloxk more than one sender
at a time (I open my mail in the morning and have at least 50 a day I
need to block).

Adding addresses to the Blocked Senders list is nearly pointless and will
not substantially reduce the amount of junk mail you receive. You'd be
better off getting a supplemental antispam tool like SpamBayes or Spam Pal.

 

[VanguardLH]

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Outlook 2007 - I would like to be able to bloxk more than one sender
at a
time (I open my mail in the morning and have at least 50 a day I
need to
block). I have not found a way through all of my research to do
this. I
thought of writing a macro, but have no idea how to go about it. I
also saw
Visual Basic Editor, but know even less about this. Can I write a
macro in
Outlook? When I click on 'macro', all of the options are turned
off.

Yep, another one that thinks spammers actually use a valid e-mail
address. You cannot block spam based on their name or e-mail address
because they change it everytime they spew their crap. You get their
crap (so the spammer won), you then waste your time trying to block on
that e-mail address (spammers win again), and next time they use a
different e-mail address, if they even use one (and they win again
because your blocking is ineffective).

Outlook 2003/2007 adds a Bayesian database that attempts to identify
spammy e-mails but it is just a guess (and most of that database was
built by Microsoft and pushed monthly as an update rather than
weighted on your specific history of spam/ham). Bayesian should be
the last method used to detect spam, not the only method. SpamPal is
free but it would take too long to explain here what it all does.

Also make sure you have the server-side anti-spam filter enabled on
your e-mail account. While it is usually much looser than a local
anti-spam solution (users are far more sensitive to false positives
than for false negatives), it does provide some coverage against the
obvious or highly repeated spam.