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Not sure if this is the right word but how do you get rid of these mails
coming into my mail box that are nothing but disgusting. Over the night 25
came in. Is there anyway of blocking them as they change their name and
address nearly everytime. I tried the blocking.
 
jayseaweav said:
Not sure if this is the right word but how do you get rid of these mails
coming into my mail box that are nothing but disgusting. Over the night 25
came in. Is there anyway of blocking them as they change their name and
address nearly everytime. I tried the blocking.
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There's not much point in trying to block those that change their name
and address every time. For those who don't, open the message, click
on Message, then Create rule from message, then Delete it, then choose
what conditions to use, and click on OK.

Make sure you do not reply to any of them - some spammers use
replies to decide which addresses reached someone, and therefore
should get more spam.
 
What does 'certified' have to do with it. I'm using it on Vista with no
problems and it is very effective. Between Spam Pal and the Junk E-mail
screening I do not receive any Spam.


Gary VanderMolen said:
SpamPal does not appear to be certified for use on Vista machines.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Mellowed said:
You can help the situation by installing the free Spam Pal. Go to
www.spampal.org
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I can't argue with success, but I was going by what it says on
their website. Windows Mail seems to be overly sensitive to
interference from third party programs, and sometimes it
takes a while for that problem to show up.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Mellowed said:
What does 'certified' have to do with it. I'm using it on Vista with no problems and it is very effective. Between Spam Pal
and the Junk E-mail screening I do not receive any Spam.


Gary VanderMolen said:
SpamPal does not appear to be certified for use on Vista machines.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Mellowed said:
You can help the situation by installing the free Spam Pal. Go to
www.spampal.org


Not sure if this is the right word but how do you get rid of these mails
coming into my mail box that are nothing but disgusting. Over the night 25
came in. Is there anyway of blocking them as they change their name and
address nearly everytime. I tried the blocking.
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Humm. I checked the Spam Pal site and it appears that the volunteers that
keep improvements going are disappearing. Too bad as the program is superb.
I'll keep using it until new spam sites overwhelm the existing database. As
it stands now I don't know of a better program. I using version 1.594
released in October 2005. A Beta from Jan 2006 was never released.


Gary VanderMolen said:
I can't argue with success, but I was going by what it says on
their website. Windows Mail seems to be overly sensitive to
interference from third party programs, and sometimes it
takes a while for that problem to show up.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Mellowed said:
What does 'certified' have to do with it. I'm using it on Vista with no
problems and it is very effective. Between Spam Pal and the Junk E-mail
screening I do not receive any Spam.


Gary VanderMolen said:
SpamPal does not appear to be certified for use on Vista machines.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]



You can help the situation by installing the free Spam Pal. Go to
www.spampal.org


Not sure if this is the right word but how do you get rid of these
mails
coming into my mail box that are nothing but disgusting. Over the
night 25
came in. Is there anyway of blocking them as they change their name
and
address nearly everytime. I tried the blocking.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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Keeping a spam database updated is a very labor-intensive activity.
I'm not surprised that it overwhelmed a group of volunteers.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Mellowed said:
Humm. I checked the Spam Pal site and it appears that the volunteers that keep improvements going are disappearing. Too bad as
the program is superb. I'll keep using it until new spam sites overwhelm the existing database. As it stands now I don't know
of a better program. I using version 1.594 released in October 2005. A Beta from Jan 2006 was never released.


Gary VanderMolen said:
I can't argue with success, but I was going by what it says on
their website. Windows Mail seems to be overly sensitive to
interference from third party programs, and sometimes it
takes a while for that problem to show up.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Mellowed said:
What does 'certified' have to do with it. I'm using it on Vista with no problems and it is very effective. Between Spam Pal
and the Junk E-mail screening I do not receive any Spam.


SpamPal does not appear to be certified for use on Vista machines.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]



You can help the situation by installing the free Spam Pal. Go to
www.spampal.org


Not sure if this is the right word but how do you get rid of these mails
coming into my mail box that are nothing but disgusting. Over the night 25
came in. Is there anyway of blocking them as they change their name and
address nearly everytime. I tried the blocking.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
Keeping a spam database updated is a very labor-intensive activity.
I'm not surprised that it overwhelmed a group of volunteers.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Mellowed said:
Humm. I checked the Spam Pal site and it appears that the volunteers
that keep improvements going are disappearing. Too bad as the program is
superb. I'll keep using it until new spam sites overwhelm the existing
database. As it stands now I don't know of a better program. I using
version 1.594 released in October 2005. A Beta from Jan 2006 was never
released.


Gary VanderMolen said:
I can't argue with success, but I was going by what it says on
their website. Windows Mail seems to be overly sensitive to
interference from third party programs, and sometimes it
takes a while for that problem to show up.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


What does 'certified' have to do with it. I'm using it on Vista with
no problems and it is very effective. Between Spam Pal and the Junk
E-mail screening I do not receive any Spam.


SpamPal does not appear to be certified for use on Vista machines.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]



You can help the situation by installing the free Spam Pal. Go to
www.spampal.org


Not sure if this is the right word but how do you get rid of these
mails
coming into my mail box that are nothing but disgusting. Over the
night 25
came in. Is there anyway of blocking them as they change their name
and
address nearly everytime. I tried the blocking.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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It seems that some mail providers are better at filtering Spam on their end.

Our POP 3 accounts from our service provide get virtually no Spam. Also, I
have a Hotmail Plus account and my wife has a regular Hotmail account and
both are relatively free of spam either in the Inbox or the Junk e-mail box.
On the other hand, my wife uses Wildmail as her primary e-mail account and
she gets a lot more than 25 junk mail messages overnight as does the
Netscape/AOL account she rarely uses.

Wayne
 
One thing I have noticed is I block both the sender and the domain and the
spam keeps coming through. All of the spam mail that gets through are from
what appear to be legit sites that I at some time in the past have logged
onto for some reason.
Some of the sites are like People Magazine etc. One time I ordered the
magazine as a Xmas gift and have been getting spam ever since. Since I might
want to renew it I don't want to canx my account on their site. I never check
the boxes that say I want to receive e-mail from these sites and yet it is
coming in and through the Windows Mail filters.

Anyone had this problem and did you find a way to fix it in Windows Mail?

james141
 
If you have that sender in your Contacts, or on the Safe Senders
list, it will override Blocked Senders.
 
If the spam is coming from out of the country you can set up the Windows Mail
filter to stop them. However if you are like me and have a few friends
overseas you need to be very careful how you do this or you block them. I
believe that if you right click on the e-mail in your inbox you can tell the
filter to allow specific out of the country domains. What I have done to make
sure I don't miss anything is have the filter send all spam to the "Spam
folder" or "junk e-mail folder". If I find an e-mail in there from someone I
want to have come through I right click on it and add the sender to my
friends of "safe senders" list. You need to play with the spam filter system
in Windows and fine tune it so that it works for you.
My ISP from Cox has a very good spam filter system and it has blocked
almost all of the "sex" spam before I ever see it which is great!
 
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