Spam from 'myself'

[salveumbria]

Outlook 2007 installed.

The spam filter traps many emails but constantly I get emails purportedly
from one of my own email addresses. They're all spam and I can't find a way
of identifying the actual sender (surprise, surprise!).

I've tried both deleting and sending (the sender) to the junk email box.
What's the better solution? Incidentally is there a way of 'mass deleting'
junk emails in the inbox or do they have to be dealt with individually?

 

[Gerry]

alveumbria

Look at the Message Source of a Spam message and compare to this from
your latest message.

Thread-Topic: Spam from 'myself'
thread-index: Acl/IlcG/JNJm9UHQT6qM7bVfCy+7g==
X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 65.55.21.8
From: =?Utf-8?B?c2FsdmV1bWJyaWE=?=
<[email protected]>
Subject: Spam from 'myself'
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:23:02 -0800
Lines: 11
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.3168
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.general
NNTP-Posting-Host: tk2msftibfm01.phx.gbl 10.40.244.149
Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl
Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.outlook.general:661482

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[VanguardLH]

Outlook 2007 installed.

The spam filter traps many emails but constantly I get emails purportedly
from one of my own email addresses. They're all spam and I can't find a way
of identifying the actual sender (surprise, surprise!).

Neither can we without an exhibit of the spam e-mail.

I've tried both deleting and sending (the sender) to the junk email box.

Which means you tried adding your own e-mail address to the blocked
sender list.

What's the better solution?

Create a rule that looks for incoming e-mails that come from yourself.

Incidentally is there a way of 'mass deleting'
junk emails in the inbox or do they have to be dealt with individually?

After defining the rule, run it manually. Make sure to select the
starting folder from which to start applying the rule.

 

[N. Miller]

Outlook 2007 installed.

The spam filter traps many emails but constantly I get emails purportedly
from one of my own email addresses. They're all spam and I can't find a way
of identifying the actual sender (surprise, surprise!).

I've tried both deleting and sending (the sender) to the junk email box.
What's the better solution? Incidentally is there a way of 'mass deleting'
junk emails in the inbox or do they have to be dealt with individually?

Unless you are in the habit of sending yourself email, filtering yourself
will do the job.

Identifying the spam source is a daunting task. Unless you wish to learn the
nitty gritty details of how SMTP works, and what the trace headers in the
message source reveal, you would be better off filtering, and deleting.