Spam filter

[GuessWho]

I created some email addresses a few years ago that I don't want to change
but they're "dumb" addresses like (e-mail address removed), and are vulnerable
to spam from creeps who somehow manage to include copies of there spam to
all Joe's from Joe1 to Joe999999999 all in a single email to someone else
entirely. Is there a spam filter for Outlook Express that will
automatically erase emails that are not specifically addressed to me or that
don't specifically have me in the CC list? The key word is automatically, I
don't want to just move them to a spam folder since that still requires
maintenance. Thanks.

 

[hummingbird]

I created some email addresses a few years ago that I don't want to change
but they're "dumb" addresses like (e-mail address removed), and are vulnerable
to spam from creeps who somehow manage to include copies of there spam to
all Joe's from Joe1 to Joe999999999 all in a single email to someone else
entirely. Is there a spam filter for Outlook Express that will
automatically erase emails that are not specifically addressed to me or that
don't specifically have me in the CC list? The key word is automatically, I
don't want to just move them to a spam folder since that still requires
maintenance. Thanks.

If OE doesn't do this itself, why not use an e-mail front like Magic
Mail Monitor (small and free) which has quite good POP filter/delete
facilities like that. It can also manage web e-mail if you have
FreePops installed (another small and free weapon).

 

[badgolferman]

GuessWho, 6/19/2006, 12:29:33 PM,

I created some email addresses a few years ago that I don't want to
change but they're "dumb" addresses like (e-mail address removed), and
are vulnerable to spam from creeps who somehow manage to include
copies of there spam to all Joe's from Joe1 to Joe999999999 all in a
single email to someone else entirely. Is there a spam filter for
Outlook Express that will automatically erase emails that are not
specifically addressed to me or that don't specifically have me in
the CC list? The key word is automatically, I don't want to just
move them to a spam folder since that still requires maintenance.
Thanks.

You can create a filter in OE to do that.
Where the To or CC line contains people [insert address], Options
[message does not contain people] Mark it as Read and Delete it.

 

[badgolferman]

badgolferman, 6/19/2006, 1:36:27 PM,

GuessWho, 6/19/2006, 12:29:33 PM,

I created some email addresses a few years ago that I don't want to
change but they're "dumb" addresses like (e-mail address removed), and
are vulnerable to spam from creeps who somehow manage to include
copies of there spam to all Joe's from Joe1 to Joe999999999 all in a
single email to someone else entirely. Is there a spam filter for
Outlook Express that will automatically erase emails that are not
specifically addressed to me or that don't specifically have me in
the CC list? The key word is automatically, I don't want to just
move them to a spam folder since that still requires maintenance.
Thanks.

You can create a filter in OE to do that.
Where the To or CC line contains people [insert address], Options
[message does not contain people] Mark it as Read and Delete it.

Also a screen shot:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6944/clipboard016ix.jpg

 

[-Art- (not Art)]

I created some email addresses a few years ago that I don't want to change
but they're "dumb" addresses like (e-mail address removed), and are vulnerable
to spam from creeps who somehow manage to include copies of there spam to
all Joe's from Joe1 to Joe999999999 all in a single email to someone else
entirely. Is there a spam filter for Outlook Express that will
automatically erase emails that are not specifically addressed to me or that
don't specifically have me in the CC list? The key word is automatically, I
don't want to just move them to a spam folder since that still requires
maintenance. Thanks.

Spam Pal
http://www.spampal.org/

SpamPal sits between your email program and your mailbox, checking
your email as you retrieve it. Any email messages that SpamPal
considers to be spam will be "tagged" with a special header; you
simply configure your email client to filter anything with this header
into a separate folder and your spam won't be mixed up with the rest
of your email anymore!

But how does SpamPal know what is spam and what isn't? Well, it uses
what are called DNSBL lists. Patterned after the famous MAPS RBL,
these are lists of parts of the Internet that in one way or another
facilitate spam. Any email you get from a machine on one of these
lists has an increased probability of being spam. Some ISPs already
block all email from machines on some of these DNSBL lists, but many
do not. This is where SpamPal comes in.

You can choose to use any or all of the freely-usable DNSBL lists;
SpamPal will look at the machines each email message passed through on
its way to your mailbox, and if any of those machines is on one of the
DNSBL lists you have chosen then that message will be tagged as spam.

Because not everyone who uses a machine on a DNSBL list will be a
spammer, SpamPal has a powerful whitelisting feature that allows you
to ignore DNSBL listings for certain senders or for parts of the
Internet.

-Art- (not Art)