Filtering Spam with Forged Return-Address

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Will Deatrick

The Entourage X Junk Mail Filter works well when I set it to max
sensitivity, but it fails to catch spammers that forge their
return-address with my email address. Entourage thinks I sent the email
and does not route it to my Junk folder. How can I route spam with a
forged return-address to my Junk mail folder?

Thanks, Will
 
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Dave Cortright

The Entourage X Junk Mail Filter works well when I set it to max
sensitivity, but it fails to catch spammers that forge their
return-address with my email address. Entourage thinks I sent the email
and does not route it to my Junk folder. How can I route spam with a
forged return-address to my Junk mail folder?

Thanks, Will
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You can set up a Rule: if sender is [email protected] then change status to
Junk Mail.
 
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Will Deatrick

Thanks for the suggestion, Dave. But will this rule send any email I
carbon-copy to myself into the Junk Folder?

Will
 
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Jeremy E Cath

Will Deatrick said:
The Entourage X Junk Mail Filter works well when I set it to max
sensitivity, but it fails to catch spammers that forge their
return-address with my email address. Entourage thinks I sent the email
and does not route it to my Junk folder. How can I route spam with a
forged return-address to my Junk mail folder?

Thanks, Will
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I've found the no matter what rules you put in place in Entourage (or
OL2003) unless you're using a blocklist (such as bl.spamcop.net) or
pre-filtering (eg spamcop.net) your failure rate is going to be high.
Until Entourage gets an update to block webbugs (usually images in the mail
that confirm the message has arrived) even clicking on a spam message to
move it to the junk folder is going to cause you problems if the HTML
appears in the preview window. OL2003 has this facility, so hopefulyl
Entourage isn't too far behind.
BTW Although I recommend spamcop I'm just a paying customer, who hates
spammers and love reporting them to their ISP !
 
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Keith Esau

I've found the no matter what rules you put in place in Entourage (or
OL2003) unless you're using a blocklist (such as bl.spamcop.net) or
pre-filtering (eg spamcop.net) your failure rate is going to be high.
Until Entourage gets an update to block webbugs (usually images in the mail
that confirm the message has arrived) even clicking on a spam message to
move it to the junk folder is going to cause you problems if the HTML
appears in the preview window. OL2003 has this facility, so hopefulyl
Entourage isn't too far behind.
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Simply do not let [complex] HTML access the web (in Read mail preferences).

It would be nice if you could turn on access for individual emails (after
confirming they are not spam), but certainly do not access the web by
default.

Keith Esau
[email protected]
 
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Jeremy E Cath

Keith Esau said:
I've found the no matter what rules you put in place in Entourage (or
OL2003) unless you're using a blocklist (such as bl.spamcop.net) or
pre-filtering (eg spamcop.net) your failure rate is going to be high.
Until Entourage gets an update to block webbugs (usually images in the mail
that confirm the message has arrived) even clicking on a spam message to
move it to the junk folder is going to cause you problems if the HTML
appears in the preview window. OL2003 has this facility, so hopefulyl
Entourage isn't too far behind.
Click to expand...

Simply do not let [complex] HTML access the web (in Read mail preferences).

It would be nice if you could turn on access for individual emails (after
confirming they are not spam), but certainly do not access the web by
default.

Keith Esau
[email protected]
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just like the OL2003 feature !
I dislike having to turn it off across the board as a number of my clients
use HTML emails (with remote images etc) on a regular basis. Perhaps if they
were blocked in preview but not if opened it would be an improvement
 
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