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how do i stop spam mail from Outlook? I must get 20-30 daily and need this to
stop
somebody HELP!!!
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somebody HELP!!!
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Bruce Chambers
psc said:
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.
--
Bruce Chambers
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peter
At this point in the game and after you followed Bruce's advice it is a very
good idea to change your email address.....better still use 2 one for all
those websites that require you to enter an email and another one for people
that you actually want to hear from.
I use mailwasher and its a great tool for eliminating spam...it will still
be in your inbox but not downloaded onto your computer once you set the
program up.My Spam is down to about 2 a week
peter
good idea to change your email address.....better still use 2 one for all
those websites that require you to enter an email and another one for people
that you actually want to hear from.
I use mailwasher and its a great tool for eliminating spam...it will still
be in your inbox but not downloaded onto your computer once you set the
program up.My Spam is down to about 2 a week
peter
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Amnon Feiner
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work on a white list basis. No spam, just adding people manually or adding
them automatically when you send them e-mail.
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TIA
Amnon Feiner
http://www.woodcontour.com
Solid Wood and Stone PC Peripherals
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Buy any type of 3rd party software (Postal Inspector is pretty good) and
work on a white list basis. No spam, just adding people manually or adding
them automatically when you send them e-mail.
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TIA
Amnon Feiner
http://www.woodcontour.com
Solid Wood and Stone PC Peripherals
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Stan Brown
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:09:53 -0700 from Bruce Chambers
6) Make sure your relatives or friends never send you an electronic
greeting card.
etc etc
My own approach is quite different. I accept that spam is a part of
life, a part that while annoying is manageable. I use a good e-mail
provider, with excellent spam filtering. Then I don't worry about it.
Sure, I get lots of spam. But I think it's important for legitimate
people to be able to reach me.
6) Make sure your relatives or friends never send you an electronic
greeting card.
etc etc
My own approach is quite different. I accept that spam is a part of
life, a part that while annoying is manageable. I use a good e-mail
provider, with excellent spam filtering. Then I don't worry about it.
Sure, I get lots of spam. But I think it's important for legitimate
people to be able to reach me.
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PopS
Stan Brown said:
I seldom get any spam. That's because I do what Bruce listed and
keep track of what I'm doing online. Any ISP that stops spam
from you is also likely to sooner or later, if not already,
thrown away legitimate emails that were not spam.
It's not hard to do. Bruce's list is really very good.
Pop
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Stan Brown
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:47:28 -0500 from PopS
fastmail.fm's spam filter puts spam into a segregated folder, which I
review at my leisure.
In more than a year there have been exactly zero false positives.
fastmail.fm's spam filter puts spam into a segregated folder, which I
review at my leisure.
In more than a year there have been exactly zero false positives.
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Ken Blake, MVP
psc said:
First of all, note that the spam is not *from* outlook. Calling it "spam
mail from Outlook" is like blaming your postal mailbox for all the junk
advertising flyers that get sent to you. The spam you get isn't related to
what E-mail client you use.
You can't stop someone who knows your E-mail address from sending you a
message any more than you can stop someone who knows your postal address
from sending you a letter. All you can do is see that the spammers don't get
your address in the first place. You can do that by being very careful about
web sites you enter your address on, not using your real address in
newsgroups, and so on. But once the spammers get your address, they've got
it, and you can't take it away from them, unless you are willing to change
your address.
All of that notwithstanding, you can use various techniques to not see the
spam mail you get. You don't say what ISP you use, but most good ISPs have
spam filters in place and filter out much of the spam rather than send it to
you. Depending on what E-mail client you use, it may have spam filtering
capability. You say you use Outlook, and that has such ability, but if you
really meant Outlook Express, it does not.
The other thing you can do is install one of the several third-party
spam-filtering programs on the market.
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Stan Brown
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:42:11 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
Actually, you _can_ do the latter, with a postal form 1500.
http://www.usps.com/forms/_pdf/ps1500.pdf
That form refers to "obscene" material, but the Supreme Court said
you have absolute discretion to determine what is obscene, regardless
of whether your determination looks reasonable to anyone else.
Rowan v U.S. Post Office, 397 U.S. 728 (1970)
Despite quibbling with your analogy, I agree with your main point.
Actually, you _can_ do the latter, with a postal form 1500.
http://www.usps.com/forms/_pdf/ps1500.pdf
That form refers to "obscene" material, but the Supreme Court said
you have absolute discretion to determine what is obscene, regardless
of whether your determination looks reasonable to anyone else.
Rowan v U.S. Post Office, 397 U.S. 728 (1970)
Despite quibbling with your analogy, I agree with your main point.
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revencu.diana
Most of the time I'm using my gmail, and its filter is quite good.
For all other POP3, Imap and Hotmail and Exchange accounts, I've
installed a 3rd party software (Spam Bully)
For all other POP3, Imap and Hotmail and Exchange accounts, I've
installed a 3rd party software (Spam Bully)
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scott moore
Bruce said:
Most spam is sent with a bogus return address. It used to be totally
fake, and would simply go nowhere. Now, spammers have got smarter, and
they use one of the emails from their spamming list as the return.
This means that you are reporting on some other, unrelated person
who is also getting spammed. I suspect that the reason for this is
it is possible to check for valid return addresses and reject such
emails.
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Gordon
But the FULL headers show the "received from" DNS server........which is
not the same as the forged "return email" address.