Applying junk mail filters & new spammer 'trick'

[Guest]

1. Is there a way to apply a junk mail filter to a shared exchange mail
account/Mailbox?
We have our own email accounts, but also have a shared division based
mailbox. I would like to be able to create a rule that uses my personal
account's 'blocked senders' to identify junk mail in the shared account so I
can clean it up faster (about 30 junk emails a day.)
I guess just adding a line in the rules 'From senders in your blocked list',
then I could manually run the rule in the shared Mailbox.

2. I've noticed two spammers using 'from' addresses that did not contain a
domain name extension (.com .net .ru etc.) Outlook 2003 will not allow me to
add the sender to the blocked list.

3. Like other posters, a right click 'add <domain> domain to blocked list'
would be very helpfull.

4. Like other posters, multiple select 'add <list> senders to blocked list'
& 'add <list> domains to blocked list'.

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[Guest]

In general, blocking based on the FROM address in spam is a waste of time,
that address is randomly generated. When you get spam from
(e-mail address removed), it does no good to block that user or domain because
neither exist, and the next one they send will have a different non-existant
domain. More sophisticated filters can tell that it's a fake domain and
block based on that.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

1) No. you need to open the mailbox directly. The company needs to invest in
a real antispam program that runs on the gateway or exchange and get it out
of the mailbox long before the employees see it.

2) blocking from addresses is the worst, least efficient way of blocking
spam. The salary you earn while tinkering with the client filters is better
spent on a server side filter. Employee's increased productivity will more
than pay for an antispam solution.

3) again, it's a waste of users time. You should only safe list addresses -
especially in 2003 as there is a limit to the number of addresses you can
have on all lists combined. For more information, see
http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2005/up050120.htm#rules

4) see 1, 2, and 3 above.

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[Guest]

Yeah, blocking is a waste of time, but if you DON'T block it and they use the
same bogus domain with a different username, guess what happens? Yep, it
ends up in your inbox. It would be nice if Outlook's filters were such that
we would not need to procure a third party anti-spam program (free or
otherwise), which, at this point is the only best option you have. But don't
get Norton... it's a real pain.