Rule to auto-reply to junk mail

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Max wrote:
|| Is there a way to auto-reply to junk mail to say it was filtered and
|| did not receive?

If you do that, you will just confirm to the spammers that the address is
live!

NEVER NEVER NEVER reply to spam under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
 
Think about it - if it was not received (per your automatic address
confirmation reply) then how did you know that you had junk mail to which
you applied your "confirm this address to the spammers" rule?

--
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 furious head-scratching, Max asked this group:

| Is there a way to auto-reply to junk mail to say it was filtered and
| did not receive?
 
I want to reply with a fake email account, and not include any of the
original email. Duh.

-Max
 
A very important email was found in my 'Junk Email' folder a month too late.
If there had been an auto-reply saying it was marked as junk, then any
non-spammer would receive this warning and would follow up via phone call,
etc, instead of assuming I HAD READ it and wasn't interested.

I want the auto-reply to:
1. If enters 'Junk Email' folder, then reply with 'no-spam' email account
with this message 'sorry not received cuz Outlook thinks this is spam, if in
error, visit this web site to contact me.'

I cannot seem to get the rules to do exactly this... I certainly don't want
my real email being sent.

-Max




"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
 
Max wrote:
|| I want to reply with a fake email account, and not include any of the
|| original email. Duh.
||
|| -Max

And so DOUBLE the bandwidth used. Just delete them.
 
Max wrote:
|| A very important email was found in my 'Junk Email' folder a month
|| too late

You don't check your Junk Email folder then? Or do you get so much because
you reply to spammers?
 
I do not reply with a valid email address -- apparently you did not read my
entire post or do not know how to do what I requested. Many other email
programs do this -- it's called a white list. It blocks everyone not on your
list, and replies with a URL with a form asking to verify they are human and
ask to be placed on the white list. I'm simply looking for a rule to do
something similar in Outlook.

-Max
 
Max said:
I do not reply with a valid email address -- apparently you did not
read my entire post or do not know how to do what I requested. Many
other email programs do this -- it's called a white list. It blocks
everyone not on your list, and replies with a URL with a form asking
to verify they are human and ask to be placed on the white list. I'm
simply looking for a rule to do something similar in Outlook.
Click to expand...

You're much better served by using a service lice http://www.spamcop.net/
for that type of thing. Outlook can't do it but itself, in the way you
request.
 
Max wrote:
|| I do not reply with a valid email address -- apparently you did not
|| read my entire post or do not know how to do what I requested. Many
|| other email programs do this -- it's called a white list. It blocks
|| everyone not on your list, and replies with a URL with a form asking
|| to verify they are human and ask to be placed on the white list.

I don't think you'll find that "many" email programs do reply with a URL -
I'll list the ones that do not:
Outlook
Outlook Express
Eudora
Pegasus
Thunderbird
Mozilla
Incredimail
Agent
and I think you'll find that's covered 99% of the worlds' use of mail
clients.
Besides, most spammers spoof email addresses anyway, so the ones you send a
mail to aren't the spammers in the first place, and some other poor sod is
goung to get all your requests and might even blacklist YOU.

What you are proposing is NOT a good idea.
 
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