SPAM- Query

[Blair Malcolm]

I have been lucky in the main being free from very much SPAM but recently I
get a daily message from an American site recommending shares to be bought
followed by a dissertation on points of law. The senders email address is
different every time so blocking is no use.
The email is marked SPAM.
How can I either stop these emails or automatically quarantine them
Incidentally what programme puts the word SPAM on my message?
I have AVG, Zone Alarm.Spybot,Ad-aware and Smit Fraudfix on my PC
Blair

 

[Alias]

I have been lucky in the main being free from very much SPAM but recently I
get a daily message from an American site recommending shares to be bought
followed by a dissertation on points of law. The senders email address is
different every time so blocking is no use.
The email is marked SPAM.
How can I either stop these emails or automatically quarantine them
Incidentally what programme puts the word SPAM on my message?
I have AVG, Zone Alarm.Spybot,Ad-aware and Smit Fraudfix on my PC
Blair

Your ISP puts the word SPAM on the mails. If you're using Outlook
Express, just make a rule to delete all mails with SPAM in the subject
field from the server and you'll never see them again. That said, doing
this may delete a bonafide mail so you might want to configure the rule
to merely delete the message and send it into the Deleted Items folder.

Alias

 

[Malke]

I have been lucky in the main being free from very much SPAM but
recently I get a daily message from an American site recommending
shares to be bought followed by a dissertation on points of law. The
senders email address is different every time so blocking is no use.
The email is marked SPAM.
How can I either stop these emails or automatically quarantine them
Incidentally what programme puts the word SPAM on my message?
I have AVG, Zone Alarm.Spybot,Ad-aware and Smit Fraudfix on my PC
Blair

A lot of those "stock offer" spam mails are tricksy because the body of
the message is an image file (.gif) so spam-filtering software can't
read them.

You could do a couple of things:

1. If these are the only emails that come with "SPAM" in the headers
(and that is coming from your ISP's spam-filtering software on the mail
server), then you could create a rule that deletes messages with "SPAM"
in the headers.

2. In my email client (Thunderbird) making a rule with these provisions
works well (I don't get "SPAM" in the headers):

Image-Spam filter - match any of the following:
a. Content-Type contains multipart/related
b. Content-Type contains type="multipart/alternative"

For more information about using message filtering in Outlook Express
(which you apparently are using), post to the OE newsgroup and/or look
on Tom Koch's canonical OE website.

Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

http://www.insideoe.com - Tom Koch's site

Malke

 

[Blair Malcolm]

Your ISP puts the word SPAM on the mails. If you're using Outlook Express,
just make a rule to delete all mails with SPAM in the subject field from
the server and you'll never see them again. That said, doing this may
delete a bonafide mail so you might want to configure the rule to merely
delete the message and send it into the Deleted Items folder.

Alias

Thanks for your help. I have now done and placed them in a separate folder
which I can check periodically
Blair

 

[Blair Malcolm]

A lot of those "stock offer" spam mails are tricksy because the body of
the message is an image file (.gif) so spam-filtering software can't
read them.

You could do a couple of things:

1. If these are the only emails that come with "SPAM" in the headers
(and that is coming from your ISP's spam-filtering software on the mail
server), then you could create a rule that deletes messages with "SPAM"
in the headers.

2. In my email client (Thunderbird) making a rule with these provisions
works well (I don't get "SPAM" in the headers):

Image-Spam filter - match any of the following:
a. Content-Type contains multipart/related
b. Content-Type contains type="multipart/alternative"

For more information about using message filtering in Outlook Express
(which you apparently are using), post to the OE newsgroup and/or look
on Tom Koch's canonical OE website.

Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

http://www.insideoe.com - Tom Koch's site

Malke
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MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Thanks for your help . Initially I am trying the SPAM in the header first
and putting them in a separate folder
Blair