allow multiple selection add to blocked senders list in Outlook

[Guest]

In Outlook 2003, "actions->junk email->add to blocked senders list" only
allows a single selection. In general I get dozens of files in my junk email
folder. After I move out the few that got there by mistake, I want to select
all the rest and ban them forever.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Adding senders to the blocked senders list is an exercise in futility since
the spammers constantly either spoof or change the domain they are sending
from. Set your Outlook Junk Filter on high, use a third party program (I
have had great success with SpamBayes from sourceforge.net), or only allow
senders from your contact folder. Anything else will use up your rules and
eventually cause you grief.

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After furious head scratching, Jerry Callahan asked:

| In Outlook 2003, "actions->junk email->add to blocked senders list"
| only allows a single selection. In general I get dozens of files in
| my junk email folder. After I move out the few that got there by
| mistake, I want to select all the rest and ban them forever.
|
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| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
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| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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[Guest]

Even with using 2k3 and high as the setting, many emails still get through
that need to be dealt with. Adding a feature to select multiple emails and
add them to the blocked senders list is badly needed. It'll save a ton of
time.

As for using yet another spam control program, that's not going to save me
any time. I would have to go through that program and still weed out was and
wasn't spam, so there's no benefit there.

 

[Guest]

So why doesn't Microsoft come up with a more effective way to filter the
junk? It seems that the SPAMMERS are always the WINNERS in this poker game.
There are thousands of ligitimate adverstisers or companies nationwide, not
on our approved sender's list, that we might have an interest in viewing
their offerings when they are sent. Interestingly, such companies don't tend
to be a problem, it is the glut of pornography, pharmaceuticals, and
fraudulant offers that we would like to see effectively filtered.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Nope, it is a cat & mouse kind of thing. Microsoft delivers frequent updates
to the Junk E-mail filter definitions which will (hopefully) outwit the
spammers until they outwit the Junk E-mail Filter again, etc... etc...

It's not a Microsoft thing; it is the SMTP protocol itself that was designed
without having this kind of massive abuse in mind. Now that we so fully rely
on the SMTP protocol it is really hard to change it. Guess why SPAM is such
a big issue right now?

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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So why doesn't Microsoft come up with a more effective way to filter the
junk? It seems that the SPAMMERS are always the WINNERS in this poker game.
There are thousands of ligitimate adverstisers or companies nationwide, not
on our approved sender's list, that we might have an interest in viewing
their offerings when they are sent. Interestingly, such companies don't
tend
to be a problem, it is the glut of pornography, pharmaceuticals, and
fraudulant offers that we would like to see effectively filtered.