Although my junk folder is pretty good, I keep getting spam/junk in my inbox
(5-10x per day). I want to mark the messages as junk and "teach" outlook to
junk any similar messages or anything from the same sender/source. In my
personal (yahoo) e-mail, I am able to click a button displayed with my inbox
that says "this is spam". Does outlook have any similar feature, or do I
have to add more parameters to my junk list everytime?

right click the message, junk email
BUT, if you look at the from address, you will see that no two spam messages
have the same from address, even if you get the same message multiple times...

"Nikhi" wrote:

> Although my junk folder is pretty good, I keep getting spam/junk in my inbox
> (5-10x per day). I want to mark the messages as junk and "teach" outlook to
> junk any similar messages or anything from the same sender/source. In my
> personal (yahoo) e-mail, I am able to click a button displayed with my inbox
> that says "this is spam". Does outlook have any similar feature, or do I
> have to add more parameters to my junk list everytime?

"Nikhi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:626CD398-7BF1-496B-9466-(E-Mail Removed)...

> Although my junk folder is pretty good, I keep getting spam/junk in my inbox
> (5-10x per day). I want to mark the messages as junk and "teach" outlook to
> junk any similar messages or anything from the same sender/source. In my
> personal (yahoo) e-mail, I am able to click a button displayed with my inbox
> that says "this is spam". Does outlook have any similar feature, or do I
> have to add more parameters to my junk list everytime?

Toothsome Papa is wrong. Outlook's Junk E-mail fileter is not trainable. The
only think you can do to help eliminate spam is to 1) increase the Junk E-mail
filter sensitivity, 2) add the sender's address or domain to the Blocked
Senders list (which is what Toothsome Papa is suggesting, but this doesn't
train the filter as he claims), 3) add a rule that will move the message to
the Junk E-mail folder (or delete it) based on a message criterion, or 4) some
combination of these. You can, however, get a trainable antispam tool for
Outlook here http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ if the built-in filter doesn't
do the job.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"Toothsome Papa" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:095385EA-949E-4CBF-8EFB-(E-Mail Removed)...

> right click the message, junk email

This does NOT train the Junk E-mail filter and thus does not satisfy the OP's
request.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Being precise, there was no such claim, unless you contend that in
responding, that constituted such a claim

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Nikhi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:626CD398-7BF1-496B-9466-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> Although my junk folder is pretty good, I keep getting spam/junk in my
>> inbox
>> (5-10x per day). I want to mark the messages as junk and "teach" outlook
>> to
>> junk any similar messages or anything from the same sender/source. In my
>> personal (yahoo) e-mail, I am able to click a button displayed with my
>> inbox
>> that says "this is spam". Does outlook have any similar feature, or do I
>> have to add more parameters to my junk list everytime?
>
> Toothsome Papa is wrong. Outlook's Junk E-mail fileter is not trainable.
> The only think you can do to help eliminate spam is to 1) increase the
> Junk E-mail filter sensitivity, 2) add the sender's address or domain to
> the Blocked Senders list (which is what Toothsome Papa is suggesting, but
> this doesn't train the filter as he claims), 3) add a rule that will move
> the message to the Junk E-mail folder (or delete it) based on a message
> criterion, or 4) some combination of these. You can, however, get a
> trainable antispam tool for Outlook here http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
> if the built-in filter doesn't do the job.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"DL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%2335$(E-Mail Removed)...

> Being precise, there was no such claim, unless you contend that in
> responding, that constituted such a claim

I do. The original poster said "I want to mark the messages as junk and
'teach' Outlook to junk any similar messages". There is no facility in
Outlook to mark a message as junk or teach Outlook's junk e-mail filter to
process similar messages (whatever that means). The only thing available on a
per-message basis is to add the sender's address or domain to the Blocked
Senders list. That doesn't alter the Junk E-mail filter in any way.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

We have a different understanding of what the OP meant, he did say he wanted
to teach outlook to junk "similar messages or anything from the same source"
and he then went on to describe what he can do in Yahoo. I assumed he wanted
outlook to behave like yahoo, where you can "teach" it junk anything from
that source.

I guess I could have been more complete in pointing out to the OP that he is
not actually "teaching" yahoo to do anything more than flag the sender as
junk, and this function in yahoo has nothing to do with junking "similar
messages."

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> "DL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%2335$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > Being precise, there was no such claim, unless you contend that in
> > responding, that constituted such a claim
>
> I do. The original poster said "I want to mark the messages as junk and
> 'teach' Outlook to junk any similar messages". There is no facility in
> Outlook to mark a message as junk or teach Outlook's junk e-mail filter to
> process similar messages (whatever that means). The only thing available on a
> per-message basis is to add the sender's address or domain to the Blocked
> Senders list. That doesn't alter the Junk E-mail filter in any way.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
>