Filtering SPAM

[Anon]

Is there a way to filter any incoming email into Outlook 2003 that contains
a .GIF attachment and send it to the Junk Mail folder? It appears the
spammers found a way to get by the regular filtering?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Not really - you would be better off trying a third party spam blocker
program. I use SpamBayes from Sourceforge.net (free and open source) and
have been for almost 2 years. I seldom get any spam, especially ones with
..gifs.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Anon asked:

|| Is there a way to filter any incoming email into Outlook 2003 that
|| contains a .GIF attachment and send it to the Junk Mail folder? It
|| appears the spammers found a way to get by the regular filtering?

 

[Anon]

Thanks Milly,

I went thru the Rules and tried to set up a filter in Outlook 03, and they
give you nearly every option to INCLUDE something for filtering, but not to
EXCLUDE something.

Will give your suggestion a try.


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

BE sure to keep a few of these around for training SpamBayes initially. You
will see an almost immediate improvement.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Anon asked:

| Thanks Milly,
|
| I went thru the Rules and tried to set up a filter in Outlook 03, and
| they give you nearly every option to INCLUDE something for filtering,
| but not to EXCLUDE something.
|
| Will give your suggestion a try.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Not really - you would be better off trying a third party spam
|| blocker program. I use SpamBayes from Sourceforge.net (free and
|| open source) and have been for almost 2 years. I seldom get any
|| spam, especially ones with .gifs.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the news group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Anon asked:
||
|||| Is there a way to filter any incoming email into Outlook 2003 that
|||| contains a .GIF attachment and send it to the Junk Mail folder? It
|||| appears the spammers found a way to get by the regular filtering?

 

[Dan Pascal]

Use an AntiSpam software. There are a lot of AntiSpam software to choose
from. I use Email Sentinel Pro. You can find it at this link:
http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/email_sentinel.html