spam guard for outlook express

[Guest]

I am receiving so many spam mail everyday, i am very dependend on the mail
about my office work. Every day i receive 8 to 10 spam mail.

Can I get any spam guard from microsoft or any other to protect this spam
mail?

Pls help me about this matter, I will be very greatfull to u.

thanks.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am receiving so many spam mail everyday, i am very dependend on the
mail about my office work. Every day i receive 8 to 10 spam mail.

8-10 isn't a lot. Many of us get much more than that.

Can I get any spam guard from microsoft or any other to protect this
spam mail?

Many ISPs filter spam for you. Some E-mail clients (for example, Microsoft
Outlook) have anti-spam software built in. And there is lots of third party
anti-spam software on the market.

 

[PA Bear]

No, but you can use Message Rules to accomplish the same ends:

Message Rules Tips
http://www.insideoe.com/tips/rules.htm

Why doesn't my rule work?
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#rules

Filter /in/ your messages
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I am receiving so many spam mail everyday, i am very dependend on the mail
about my office work. Every day i receive 8 to 10 spam mail.

Can I get any spam guard from microsoft or any other to protect this spam
mail?

Pls help me about this matter, I will be very greatfull to u.

thanks.

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)0m."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe" or
"remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only compound
the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the your desire
not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in the first
place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is confirming that
he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. For instance,
subscribing to CNN.COM's Breaking News Service will garner you a lot of
additional spam. (Of course, not all such sites have under-handed
motives; it's a judgment call. If the offer seems "too good to be
true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express or whatever other email client application
you use, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders or Junk Mail list, so
the their messages are automatically deleted from the server without
being downloaded to your PC. Consult the Help Files of your chosen
email client application for specific instructions.


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Bruce Chambers

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[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

I am receiving so many spam mail everyday, i am very dependend on the
mail about my office work. Every day i receive 8 to 10 spam mail.

Can I get any spam guard from microsoft or any other to protect this
spam mail?

Pls help me about this matter, I will be very greatfull to u.

thanks.

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Insisting on perfect safety is for people
without the balls to live in the real world.
Mary Shafer Iliff

 

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

Bruce Chambers wrote:

Just a couple of additional thoughts, Bruce:

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take
to minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your
reply address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)0m."

It would be better to use a working email address just for this purpose
or to use none at all, e.g., (e-mail address removed). (Any of the four
reserved top level domains may be used for this purpose.) An alternative
is (e-mail address removed).

Although it's not what you recommended, what happens all too often is
that people end up creating a bogus email address that belongs to a
genuine domain, thereby creating a terrible mess for some hapless
administrator who never did anything to deserve all that spam.

And, even though everyone does it, it's not in keeping with RFC 1036,
and there are still news providers who strictly forbid it. Mine is one,
although I am allowed to use one of the two exceptions above.

My own choice is to use gmail, because the filters are excellent, and
all my spam goes straight to the bin without any false positives. Anyone
who would like an invitation need only ask, and I'll be happy to send
you one.

<snipped>

I second the endorsement for spamcop.net. It's a great service.

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net).
This utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it
from the server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any
future emails from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

Mailwasher is good, but the "bounce" feature is not good.

Please do not "bounce" email, because it's probably not tagging the real
culprit anyway, and again, as above, it creates a mess for an admin who
never did anything bad to you.

Also, if you do report spam, please be sure to send a copy to
(e-mail address removed).

rl
--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Insisting on perfect safety is for people
without the balls to live in the real world.
Mary Shafer Iliff

 

[dutza.gugutza]

I use Spam Bully for Outllok Express - http://www.spambully.com
It catches most of the spam. I can't remember the last time it marked a
non-spam email as spam and you can get it to learn from spam it didn't
catch, so that it does next time.

 

[antioch]

Hi
What sort of spam - is it the .gif type? - if yes then message rules will
not trap this sort of spam.
Have you contacted your ISP, as some will trap it before it gets to your
in-folder.
Rgds
Antioch