Junk Email Filter Update (Outlook 2003)

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I checked the office updates yesterday, and lo and behold, there was a junk email filter update.

I have downloaded and installed it, but much to my dismay, the effectivess of the filtering seems to be much worse now than it was before. Does anybody have any thoughts or ideas concerning this? I hate junk email, and it was actually working reasonably well for the most part, until I installed the update.

Thanks

Scott
 
Are you sure you got the latest update? One has been released yesterday. If
you are running the latest update; what is the issue you are experiencing
(what is worse)?

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I checked the office updates yesterday, and lo and behold, there was a junk
email filter update.

I have downloaded and installed it, but much to my dismay, the effectivess
of the filtering seems to be much worse now than it was before. Does anybody
have any thoughts or ideas concerning this? I hate junk email, and it was
actually working reasonably well for the most part, until I installed the
update.

Thanks

Scott
 
I know that with the update (not yesterday's) it is not filtering domains
anymore that are listed in the Blocked Senders list.

-Larry
 
Roady:

Thanks for your reply. The download was from yesterday - It is the March
2004 update. There just seems to be more spam getting through than before.
By the way, I keep my filter set on "high."

Thanks

Scott


message | Are you sure you got the latest update? One has been released yesterday.
If
| you are running the latest update; what is the issue you are experiencing
| (what is worse)?
|
| --
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| Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
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|
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| -----
| | I checked the office updates yesterday, and lo and behold, there was a
junk
| email filter update.
|
| I have downloaded and installed it, but much to my dismay, the effectivess
| of the filtering seems to be much worse now than it was before. Does
anybody
| have any thoughts or ideas concerning this? I hate junk email, and it was
| actually working reasonably well for the most part, until I installed the
| update.
|
| Thanks
|
| Scott
|
|
 
So far I've seen different results from the update; for some it will stop
more (or even all) spam where for others it holds less. Are these real spam
messages or are these mails infected with or cleaned form virusses?

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It is receiving spam (not viruses that I am referrring to) from domains that
I have included in the blocked senders list.

I am also seeing some messages going straight into deleted items, from
people in my address book.

Thanks,

-Larry
 
I'm getting the same result. I have specific domains in my Blocked Senders
list, but they still go to my Inbox and not to the Junk folder.

Has anyone successfully blocked (i.e. automatically moved to Junk folder)
specific domains?

Thanks,
John
 
i'm blocking mmm-clk.com. (i entered it as mmm-clk.com and outlook shows it
as @mmm-clk.com)
 
I had entered mxdq06.net and Outlook shows it as @mxdq06.net, but the
messages from that domain still come to my Inbox and I have to manually move
them to Junk.

Any ideas why this isn't working?

Thanks for the reply,
John
 
If running against a Microsoft Exchange mailbox, are you in cached mode?
 
Neo,

Thanks for the response. We are using an IMAP Exchange server. I just
checked, and the "Use Cached Exchange Mode" is not checked. How would this
affect the junk mail filters either way? I've noticed that none of them
work, even on specific addresses.

John
 
Can any of the MVPs please explain to me, or tell me where I can read about
cached mode? What is the purpose of this feature, and what are its benefits
and/or drawbacks? Also, does this effect how the junk mail filters work?

Thanks
 
Have you queried F1 Help?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, John Schneider
asked:

| Can any of the MVPs please explain to me, or tell me where I can read
| about cached mode? What is the purpose of this feature, and what are
| its benefits and/or drawbacks? Also, does this effect how the junk
| mail filters work?
|
| Thanks
|
| || If running against a Microsoft Exchange mailbox, are you in cached
|| mode?
||
|| message ||| I had entered mxdq06.net and Outlook shows it as @mxdq06.net, but
||| the messages from that domain still come to my Inbox and I have to
||| manually move them to Junk.
|||
||| Any ideas why this isn't working?
|||
||| Thanks for the reply,
||| John
|||
||| message |||| i'm blocking mmm-clk.com. (i entered it as mmm-clk.com and
|||| outlook shows it as @mmm-clk.com)
||||
|||| in message ||||| I'm getting the same result. I have specific domains in my
||||| Blocked Senders list, but they still go to my Inbox and not to
||||| the Junk folder.
|||||
||||| Has anyone successfully blocked (i.e. automatically moved to Junk
||||| folder) specific domains?
|||||
||||| Thanks,
||||| John
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| I know that with the update (not yesterday's) it is not
|||||| filtering domains anymore that are listed in the Blocked Senders
|||||| list.
||||||
|||||| -Larry
||||||
|||||| "Roady [MVP]"
|||||| message ||||||| Are you sure you got the latest update? One has been released
||||||| yesterday. If you are running the latest update; what is the
||||||| issue you are experiencing (what is worse)?
|||||||
||||||| --
||||||| Roady [MVP] www.sparnaaij.net
||||||| Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
||||||| Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...
|||||||
||||||| Tips of the month:
||||||| -Save Embedded Pictures in Their Original Format
||||||| -Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3
|||||||
||||||| -----
||||||| ||||||| I checked the office updates yesterday, and lo and behold, there
|| was
||| a
|||||| junk
||||||| email filter update.
|||||||
||||||| I have downloaded and installed it, but much to my dismay, the
||||||| effectivess of the filtering seems to be much worse now than it
||||||| was before. Does anybody have any thoughts or ideas concerning
||||||| this? I hate junk email,
| and
||| it
||||| was
||||||| actually working reasonably well for the most part, until I
||||||| installed the update.
|||||||
||||||| Thanks
|||||||
||||||| Scott
 
Ok, now I am thoroughly embarrassed! I gave up on getting any detailed
information like that from Help a long time ago. That's just what I needed.

As to why the junk filter won't work, any ideas on that? Do we have to be
on Exchange 2003? I still don't understand how cached mode would affect the
junk filter either way.


Milly Staples said:
Have you queried F1 Help?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, John Schneider
asked:

| Can any of the MVPs please explain to me, or tell me where I can read
| about cached mode? What is the purpose of this feature, and what are
| its benefits and/or drawbacks? Also, does this effect how the junk
| mail filters work?
|
| Thanks
|
| || If running against a Microsoft Exchange mailbox, are you in cached
|| mode?
||
|| message ||| I had entered mxdq06.net and Outlook shows it as @mxdq06.net, but
||| the messages from that domain still come to my Inbox and I have to
||| manually move them to Junk.
|||
||| Any ideas why this isn't working?
|||
||| Thanks for the reply,
||| John
|||
||| message |||| i'm blocking mmm-clk.com. (i entered it as mmm-clk.com and
|||| outlook shows it as @mmm-clk.com)
||||
|||| in message ||||| I'm getting the same result. I have specific domains in my
||||| Blocked Senders list, but they still go to my Inbox and not to
||||| the Junk folder.
|||||
||||| Has anyone successfully blocked (i.e. automatically moved to Junk
||||| folder) specific domains?
|||||
||||| Thanks,
||||| John
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| I know that with the update (not yesterday's) it is not
|||||| filtering domains anymore that are listed in the Blocked Senders
|||||| list.
||||||
|||||| -Larry
||||||
|||||| "Roady [MVP]"
|||||| message ||||||| Are you sure you got the latest update? One has been released
||||||| yesterday. If you are running the latest update; what is the
||||||| issue you are experiencing (what is worse)?
|||||||
||||||| --
||||||| Roady [MVP] www.sparnaaij.net
||||||| Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
||||||| Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...
|||||||
||||||| Tips of the month:
||||||| -Save Embedded Pictures in Their Original Format
||||||| -Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3
|||||||
||||||| -----
||||||| ||||||| I checked the office updates yesterday, and lo and behold, there
|| was
||| a
|||||| junk
||||||| email filter update.
|||||||
||||||| I have downloaded and installed it, but much to my dismay, the
||||||| effectivess of the filtering seems to be much worse now than it
||||||| was before. Does anybody have any thoughts or ideas concerning
||||||| this? I hate junk email,
| and
||| it
||||| was
||||||| actually working reasonably well for the most part, until I
||||||| installed the update.
|||||||
||||||| Thanks
|||||||
||||||| Scott
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Brian Tillman said:
Yes.
Click to expand...

Can anyone tell me what needs to be done to get this to work? I have
specific domains and senders in the list, but these messages still show up
in my Inbox.

Thanks,
John
 
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