How can I get my emails back from McAfee?

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Alasdair Baxter

I have just purchased McAfee Internet Security 7 and am having
problems with the anti-spam feature.

It uses Spam Killer Version 6.1.0.6.

When I "rescue" blocked emails, they should go into the "Accepted
Emails" list and also back into the inbox of Outlook Express. Sadly
they only go into the "Accepted Emails" list in McAfee and I can find
no way to transfer them to the inbox of OE.

Please, can any kind soul help?
 
Alasdair said:
I have just purchased McAfee Internet Security 7 and am having
problems with the anti-spam feature.

It uses Spam Killer Version 6.1.0.6.

When I "rescue" blocked emails, they should go into the "Accepted
Emails" list and also back into the inbox of Outlook Express. Sadly
they only go into the "Accepted Emails" list in McAfee and I can find
no way to transfer them to the inbox of OE.

Please, can any kind soul help?
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I have never used Spam Killer but other anti-spam programs that I have
tried created a folder for the spam,or they go directly into the Deleted
folder.
-max
 
Alasdair Baxter said:
I have just purchased McAfee Internet Security 7 and am having
problems with the anti-spam feature.

It uses Spam Killer Version 6.1.0.6.

When I "rescue" blocked emails, they should go into the "Accepted
Emails" list and also back into the inbox of Outlook Express. Sadly
they only go into the "Accepted Emails" list in McAfee and I can find
no way to transfer them to the inbox of OE.

Please, can any kind soul help?
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Try this link:
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/index.php
 
I have just purchased McAfee Internet Security 7 and am having
problems with the anti-spam feature.

It uses Spam Killer Version 6.1.0.6.

When I "rescue" blocked emails, they should go into the "Accepted
Emails" list and also back into the inbox of Outlook Express. Sadly
they only go into the "Accepted Emails" list in McAfee and I can find
no way to transfer them to the inbox of OE.

Please, can any kind soul help?
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Yes, ditch Spam Killer. Or, at least, disable its fake bounce feature
and do *not* configure it to report spam for you.

1. The fake bounces forge MAILER-DAEMON at your ISP as the alleged sender
and such forgery could be a TOS violation.

2. The "bounces" can (and probably will) end up being sent to innocent
third parties whose addresses are forged as the senders by worms or
spammers.

3. The reporting routine

(a) is easily fooled by forged headers, including those that are
so bogus that they *couldn't* be valid (such as fake "Received:"
headers with unroutable IP addresses in them) and

(b) reports replies to the bogus spam reports as allegedly being more
spam.

See:

"PCWorld.com - Privacy Watch:
Why Your Friends Believe You're Selling Viagra"
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,116258,00.asp
or http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/2207p052id116258.htm

I am not the only one who has had run-ins with this broken software.
Steve Atkins (of Sam Spade anti-spam tools fame) has also received
spurious spam complaints from its users as has Suresh Ramasubramanian,
the head abuse guy for outblaze.com.
 
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