Outlook 2000 spam protection

  • Thread starter Thread starter t2taff
  • Start date Start date
And the question is?

--
Roady [MVP]
www.sparnaaij.net
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...

Tip of the month:
-Create your own fully customized Toolbar

Subscribe to the newsletter to receive news and tips & tricks in your
mailbox!
www.sparnaaij.net

(I changed my reply address; remove all CAPS and _underscores_ from the
address when mailing)
 
I need technical support for spam protection.
Click to expand...

Any real SPAM protection comes from your IP (Internet Provider) or from
a third party program like MailWasher.

Outlook has little capability on it's own.
 
Hi, I believe he is facing the same problem as me... i got
about 20 over spasms a day, started about 2 weeks ago..
ranging from buying insurance to all kinds of pills and
losing weight stuffs. Very irritating.

I have one solution here but it doesnt really work well:
Outlook spam control depends on a filter file which it
uses to filter out spam messages. Thus u have to open the
file (filter.txt) some where in yr harddisk, go search for
it...and key in those keywords which can possibly identify
a spam message... keywords like "pills", "loss weights"
etc...

But it still doesnt really work well and i still have a
lot of spam mails a day... can u help?
Thanks
 
The filter.txt isn't really considered a spamfilter (not at all actually).
Better is to use a 3rd party spam filter like Mail Washer or ask your
provider to install a (better) spam filter.

--
Roady [MVP]
www.sparnaaij.net
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...

Tip of the month:
-Create your own fully customized Toolbar

Subscribe to the newsletter to receive news and tips & tricks in your
mailbox!
www.sparnaaij.net

(I changed my reply address; remove all CAPS and _underscores_ from the
address when mailing)
 
Delon said:
I have one solution here but it doesnt really work well:
Outlook spam control depends on a filter file which it
uses to filter out spam messages.
Click to expand...

Nope. That file, if you'd read it, indicates that it's informational only
and has no bearing on the SPAM filter Outlook uses. As originally supplied,
it lists the phrases the built-in filter uses, but you can't change the
built-in filter unless you use OL 2003. Even then, the filter can only be
changed using Microsoft-supplied updates.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
Back
Top