spam getting through in droves

[T5]

Hi,

I am wondering what is going on?, I am receiving stacks of unwanted spam
even though my outlook junk mail settings are set to deny any such
intrusion. I can't figure it out, this has only recently happened as all of
my junk mail was being successfully thwarted using the settings that I have
listed below.

I Do, repeat Do have the latest updates for the junk mail filter.

I am using OL 2003 with all updates in place all junk mail filters etc etc.
I have my Junk mail options set to safe lists only and the permanently
delete mail suspected as being junk checked, I also have the dont turn on
links checked.

The top level domains are blocked accordingly as are the encodings

In account settings>>Change>>>more settings>>>Advanced, I have the leave a
copy of mail on the server for 10 days checked and the delete mail when mail
is deleted from the deleted folder is unchecked.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook's filters can only do so much without being overly aggressive and
having false positives. I use a third party tool (SpamBayes) to augment
Outlook and have been pretty spam free for a couple of years. It is free
and available from sourceforge.net.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, T5 wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I am wondering what is going on?, I am receiving stacks of unwanted
| spam even though my outlook junk mail settings are set to deny any
| such intrusion. I can't figure it out, this has only recently
| happened as all of my junk mail was being successfully thwarted using
| the settings that I have listed below.
|
| I Do, repeat Do have the latest updates for the junk mail filter.
|
| I am using OL 2003 with all updates in place all junk mail filters
| etc etc. I have my Junk mail options set to safe lists only and the
| permanently delete mail suspected as being junk checked, I also have
| the dont turn on links checked.
|
| The top level domains are blocked accordingly as are the encodings
|
| In account settings>>Change>>>more settings>>>Advanced, I have the
| leave a copy of mail on the server for 10 days checked and the delete
| mail when mail is deleted from the deleted folder is unchecked.

 

[T5]

Ohh Milly, you of oh so much knowledge, you have once again given me
guidance most sought
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

It takes a while to train but if you have a good store of spam messages, it
helps the training process.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, T5 wrote:

| Ohh Milly, you of oh so much knowledge, you have once again given me
| guidance most sought
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Outlook's filters can only do so much without being overly
|| aggressive and having false positives. I use a third party tool
|| (SpamBayes) to augment Outlook and have been pretty spam free for a
|| couple of years. It is free and available from sourceforge.net.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, T5 wrote:
||
||| Hi,
|||
||| I am wondering what is going on?, I am receiving stacks of unwanted
||| spam even though my outlook junk mail settings are set to deny any
||| such intrusion. I can't figure it out, this has only recently
||| happened as all of my junk mail was being successfully thwarted
||| using the settings that I have listed below.
|||
||| I Do, repeat Do have the latest updates for the junk mail filter.
|||
||| I am using OL 2003 with all updates in place all junk mail filters
||| etc etc. I have my Junk mail options set to safe lists only and the
||| permanently delete mail suspected as being junk checked, I also have
||| the dont turn on links checked.
|||
||| The top level domains are blocked accordingly as are the encodings
|||
||| In account settings>>Change>>>more settings>>>Advanced, I have the
||| leave a copy of mail on the server for 10 days checked and the
||| delete mail when mail is deleted from the deleted folder is
||| unchecked.

 

[T5]

thanks Milly,

I have just run it for the first time and it directed 15 (suspected) spams
to the suspected spam junk folder, what do I do with it when it gets
directed to this folder? I went through each mail and labled it as spam, it
was then directed to my outlook junk mail folder. Does this mean that I have
successfully trained it to recognise those 15 mails as spam? Have I done it
correctly?
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Well, yes and maybe. The filter works on heuristics, not on anything actually in the to, from or header. It recognizes the type of email and will look for that type in the future if you marked it as spam. A better write up is available on the SpamBayes site. They do a very good job explaining it so I will leave it to them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, T5 asked:

| thanks Milly,
|
| I have just run it for the first time and it directed 15 (suspected)
| spams to the suspected spam junk folder, what do I do with it when
| it gets directed to this folder? I went through each mail and labled
| it as spam, it was then directed to my outlook junk mail folder. Does
| this mean that I have successfully trained it to recognise those 15
| mails as spam? Have I done it correctly?
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || It takes a while to train but if you have a good store of spam
|| messages, it
|| helps the training process.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, T5 wrote:
||
||| Ohh Milly, you of oh so much knowledge, you have once again given me
||| guidance most sought
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| |||| Outlook's filters can only do so much without being overly
|||| aggressive and having false positives. I use a third party tool
|||| (SpamBayes) to augment Outlook and have been pretty spam free for a
|||| couple of years. It is free and available from sourceforge.net.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, T5 wrote:
||||
||||| Hi,
|||||
||||| I am wondering what is going on?, I am receiving stacks of
||||| unwanted spam even though my outlook junk mail settings are set
||||| to deny any such intrusion. I can't figure it out, this has only
||||| recently happened as all of my junk mail was being successfully
||||| thwarted using the settings that I have listed below.
|||||
||||| I Do, repeat Do have the latest updates for the junk mail filter.
|||||
||||| I am using OL 2003 with all updates in place all junk mail filters
||||| etc etc. I have my Junk mail options set to safe lists only and
||||| the permanently delete mail suspected as being junk checked, I
||||| also have the dont turn on links checked.
|||||
||||| The top level domains are blocked accordingly as are the
||||| encodings
|||||
||||| In account settings>>Change>>>more settings>>>Advanced, I have the
||||| leave a copy of mail on the server for 10 days checked and the
||||| delete mail when mail is deleted from the deleted folder is
||||| unchecked.