Outlook rules and Junk Mail again

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Janne Siukkola

1. - You should add a rule to Outlook that moves (or deletes) the messages
send by someone in the Junk Senders list to selected folder! I know that you
can use Junk
Senders rule but that rule seems to be a bit stupid because if it feels that
some message is junk it moves it to deleted items folder even if the message
is from someone in you Personal Address Book!

2. - Also why can't you select more than one message and add all senders to
Junk Senders list instead of adding them separately?
 
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Vanguardx

Janne Siukkola said:
1. - You should add a rule to Outlook that moves (or deletes) the
messages
send by someone in the Junk Senders list to selected folder! I know
that you
can use Junk
Senders rule but that rule seems to be a bit stupid because if it
feels that
some message is junk it moves it to deleted items folder even if the
message
is from someone in you Personal Address Book!
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So what is stopping you from defining a rule to whitelist all contacts
in your address book (and include the stop clause to prevent subsequent
rules from exercising against the same message) and positioning that
whitelist rule BEFORE the Junk rule?
2. - Also why can't you select more than one message and add all
senders to
Junk Senders list instead of adding them separately?
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And you really think that listing all those bogus or invalid e-mail
addresses used by spammers is going to stop them from using a different
bogus or invalid e-mail address on their next crop of crap they spew?
Unless you have an idiot that is constantly using the same e-mail
address, the Junk Senders list is worthless.

1. Get an undesirable e-mail message.
2. Add the sender's e-mail address to Junk Senders.
3. Go to step 1 after changing the sender's e-mail address.

Get the point? It is an endless loop because the spammer is going to be
using a different e-mail address every time they spew the next time.
 
J

Janne Siukkola

"Vanguardx"

Thank you for your kind response!

You are right about these things, ofcourse. It seems like there are sadists
in the head of companies who are against stopping the spam (it is so great
way to send ads to people all over the planet!).
 
V

Vanguardx

Janne Siukkola said:
"Vanguardx"

Thank you for your kind response!

You are right about these things, ofcourse. It seems like there are
sadists
in the head of companies who are against stopping the spam (it is so
great
way to send ads to people all over the planet!).
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Outlook 2003 includes better a better spam filter (for some reason, they
want to toss generalized gooblety gook in their description of it to
hide that it is a Bayesian filter). Or get some anti-spam software.
SpamBayes is a plug-in to Outlook (but Bayesian filtering is all it
does). Mailwasher is an e-mail monitor utility that uses blocklists of
known spam sources to tag the spam (I've heard there is a buried option
to delete spam-tagged messages from the server). The freebie version of
Mailwasher only permits connecting to one e-mail account. SpamPal also
uses blocklists but it also has a Bayesian plug-in and other plug-ins to
provide multiple methods to detect spam.

You might even check your e-mail account with your ISP (often they
provide a webmail interface where you can set options and view messages)
to see if they provide spam filtering. Server-side spam filtering would
lessen the load on you or your computer to handle the crap.
 
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