Marking an email as spam

[Jan Groshan]

Using Outlook 2007 : Even though I consistently opt to add a particular
sender to the blocked sender list, it doesn't seem to make any difference. I
still get email from that sender in my inbox. How do I correct this ?

 

[VanguardLH]

Using Outlook 2007 : Even though I consistently opt to add a particular
sender to the blocked sender list, it doesn't seem to make any difference. I
still get email from that sender in my inbox. How do I correct this ?

Is the sender using a different e-mail address each time they spew
another message at you? If so, why would you believe that blocking on a
sender's e-mail address has any effect when the sender will change their
e-mail address everytime they spew? A blocking list based on e-mail
addresses is worthless in eliminating spam. Anyone can specify whatever
e-mail they want to claim is theirs, just like you can, too.

If the same sender is always using the same e-mail address on which you
block then perhaps you have prior rules that prevent getting to your
blacklist rule. If you have prior rules with a stop-clause in them and
they fire then, well, you told them to stop and not process any further
rules.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

is the address in your contacts or also on the safe list?

 

[Jan Groshan]

A. The sender is NOT using different e-mail addresses. I DON'T believe that
blocking an e-mail address has any effect when the sender will change their
e-mail address every time they spew !

B. I have no prior rules that I'm aware of that prevent getting to my
blacklist.

C. Your reply was NOT particularly helpful, but thanks anyway.

 

[Jan Groshan]

The sender WAS in my contacts, but not on the safe list ... I've now deleted
them. Hopefully this will do the trick. Thanks for the concise response.

 

[VanguardLH]

A. The sender is NOT using different e-mail addresses. I DON'T believe that
blocking an e-mail address has any effect when the sender will change their
e-mail address every time they spew !

It was evidenced in your post if the sender was always using the same
e-mail address or not. Many users of the blocked list think that
thousands of e-mail addresses in there will block spam. It was not
evident from your post that you already knew that list was ineffective
against spam.

B. I have no prior rules that I'm aware of that prevent getting to my
blacklist.

Do you have any rules defined? Whitelist rules should go first (with a
stop-clause because if the sender is whitelisted then you want their
email). Blacklist rules then follow (and should also have the stop
clause). So far, it is yet unknown if you have any rules.

C. Your reply was NOT particularly helpful, but thanks anyway.

Neither was your post particularly detailed to know if the e-mail
address was changing or not. The same sender might be (and can be)
using multiple email accounts or aliases.

From your other post, you had that sender in your contacts folder which
gets them whitelisted. As mentioned above, whitelists are (or should
be) processed before blacklists.