My junk e-mail folder hates me

[Jack K.]

(Outlook 2007 with a standard SMTP account)

I tried a bunch of tricks to stop a spammer who was using my name as the
sender. But when the spammer apparently stopped sending me stuff, I decided
to clean out all the rules I had made. But e-mail I send to myself still goes
into the junk e-mail folder, and I want that to stop. (And please don't tell
to stop sending myself stuff.)

I have entered my domain in the Safe Senders list, I've cleaned the e-mail
rules, and I'm not in my blocked senders list.

What's my next step?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

To what level is your Junk Email Filter set?
Do you perhaps have a 3rd party anti-spam tool installed to do additional
filtering?

(Outlook 2007 with a standard SMTP account)

You meant to say a POP3 account, right? ;-)

 

[Jack K.]

Hi Roady --

You meant to say a POP3 account, right? ;-)

Ah, yes, of course, POP3 (ahem, blush).

My Junk Mail filter is set to Low.

I have a primary outsourced spam filter (Katharion) which I check regularly;
I had to program my name into its white list lest it catch my stuff too.

Although, now that Ithink of it, perhaps I could try to remove name from the
Katharion whitelist and see whether it would exercise heuristics on the
content instead of overriding the heuristics because the sender is in its
whitelist. Hmmmm ...

The only other spam control I have outside Outlook is OneCare, and I see no
way to fine-tune that.

Still, I'd like to be able to fine-tune it at the local level.

Jack

 

[Jack K.]

Roady --

I took my name off Katharion's white list, and that fixed the problem of the
spammer who was using my name. I feel a little foolish for not having thought
of that earlier.

But my problem remains: All e-mail I send to myself goes into the junk
folder.

I tell you, the folder hates me.

Jack

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Thread continued in a later thread titled "My junk e-mail folder STILL hates
me"