blocking emails
 

Using Outlook Express, XP home....

I want to block lots of unwanted spam mail, is there a quick way to do this
or do I have to painstakingly block them one at a time?

Joe

Re: blocking emails
 

In article <AOi2i.5797$Ug.1602@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
joerogers@blueyonder.co.uk says...
>
>
>Using Outlook Express, XP home....
>
>I want to block lots of unwanted spam mail, is there a quick way to do this
>or do I have to painstakingly block them one at a time?
>
Install or setup a spam filter

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

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Re: blocking emails
 

Joe wrote:

> Using Outlook Express, XP home....
>
> I want to block lots of unwanted spam mail, is there a quick way to
> do this or do I have to painstakingly block them one at a time?

If you are "blocking senders" with rules, that is pointless. Spammers
never use their own addresses, almost always use the address of one of
their victims, and never use the same one twice. All you will end up
with is a huge list of addresses that will slow down your processing and
do no good.

Get a better email client that has spam filtering built in. Try
Thunderbird.

http://k75s.home.att.net/tips.html#email

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Re: blocking emails
 

Joe wrote:
> Using Outlook Express, XP home....
>
> I want to block lots of unwanted spam mail, is there a quick way to
> do this or do I have to painstakingly block them one at a time?

OE's message rules are extremely weak, but you can make a simple rule if
your spam has been previously identified by SpamPal.

SpamPal^1 is a powerful spam identifier and it will tag all of your spam
so that OE can simply put the Junk into its own folder in anticipation
of deleting it. Good spamrules don't tag any goodmail and tag nearly
all of the spam.

It is far better to not autodelete the spam identified because good
rulemaking requires monitoring of its results. If you autodelete mail,
you don't know what has been deleted, and you can't tune your rules.

The term 'block' which you used is not a useful word in this context,
since you won't be blocking the spam from being transmitted to your
provider, and it is generally best to not be blocking the spam from
being transmitted from your provider's mailbox to your OE's Inbox, but
you /do/ want to 'block' the appearance of the spam from your gaze in
your Inbox. So what you do is to divert the spam from the Inbox to the
Junk folder.

Very few people can save online time by using tools to help them delete
the spam from their providers's server instead of downloading it. The
fastest way to handle spam is to hookup with your provider's server and
say "Give me all of the mail now." and then the mail passes rapidly
thru' software filters which filter identifies the spam from its
'inside' and tags it for sorting. A powerful spamfilter combing the
interior of a spam for clues is much faster than human eyeballs looking
at the exterior of a spam to avoid downloading it.


^1 free, works with OE, multilingual, excellent support,
http://www.spampal.org/

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Re: blocking emails
 

On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:44:00 GMT, Joe wrote:

>Using Outlook Express, XP home....
>
>I want to block lots of unwanted spam mail, is there a quick way to do this
>or do I have to painstakingly block them one at a time?

Block where?

Getting to your ISP mail account or downloading from your BY mailbox to
your PC?

Since it's too late for either as you posted uning an unmunged email
address to a public newsgroup where any spammer can now use it.

Old but still worth a read
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html

http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Then, well you may not know this BY users FAQ
http://www.by-users.co.uk/faqs/newsmailreaders/oe/
You now enter an email address, However it is best to MUNGE it to
prevent SPAM robots

To Munge you corrupt your address AFTER The @ sign ie:-
youralias@SPAMblueyonder.co.uk a human would know to remove the spam to
reply, a robot would not therefore saving you the heartache of spam
messages


This seems a bit odd your ISP has pages of tips about avoiding spam
http://www.virginmedia.com/digital/s...spam/index.php
there is even a bit about options for Webmail setting to set an
http://www.virginmedia.com/digital/s...mfiltering.php
allowed list of email addresses, a list to mark as spam.

If you build up a list of messages marked with [SPAM] in your BY mailbox
these can be deleted automatically, but as valid email is sometimes
marked incorrectly set a rule in OE.

The subject line starts with [SPAM] , then move all those messages
automatically to a SPAM folder, you can then review the contents and
delete everything you don't want.

>Joe
>

Me

Re: blocking emails
 

"Joe" <joerogers@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
news:AOi2i.5797$Ug.1602@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
>
> Using Outlook Express, XP home....
>
> I want to block lots of unwanted spam mail, is there
> a quick way to do this or do I have to painstakingly
> block them one at a time?
>
> Joe


http://www.mailwasher.net/

You might want to give the Pro version a free trial.

PS: You can "Bounce" the spam back, but beware, because
people who spam for a living get really screeching
mad and go on rants about Global Warming and crap
like that... besides you don't *have* to bounce the
spams if you don't want to - you can just delete it
and add the common ones to your black list and quietly
delete the culprits before they get into OE... like
if you're the sissy, limp-wristed, apologetic type.

Me, I like to bounce the crap out of them!!! Whoo Whee!

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I sat there - contemplating about the meaning of life.

Is it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling?

Sometimes it certainly seems that way!

Re: blocking emails
 

Bucky Breeder wrote:

> http://www.mailwasher.net/

> Me, I like to bounce the crap out of them!!!

Emailing your misdirected bogus 'bounces' to innocent forged spam Froms
is both abusive to the recipients who didn't send the spam and 'dumb'
[misgudied]. Doing so can potentially jeopardize your email account
with your provider when your mail provider gets complaints about your
misdirected newmails [which are not spam transaction rejection server
'bounces'] and also for your forging the provider's role account
address.


--
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Re: blocking emails
 

Bucky Breeder wrote:

> "Bounce" the spam back, but beware, ...
> ...
> Me, I like to bounce the crap out of them!!! Whoo Whee!

Even in jest, you shouldn't say this. Someone might read it and really
do it.

For the OP: spammers never use their own email address, and the only
people who will see the bounces will be the innocent victims whose
addresses the spammers have forged in the FROM field.

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Re: blocking emails
 

On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:44:00 GMT, Joe wrote:

> Using Outlook Express, XP home....
>
> I want to block lots of unwanted spam mail, is there a quick way to do this
> or do I have to painstakingly block them one at a time?
>
> Joe

Thanks to a tip in a verizon group, I've been passing all my mail
through either a gmail or yahoo account. Their spam catchers are
excellent. Most of it I never see. I purge the spam folders on
the Web daily.

p.

Re: blocking emails <<= Return to sender *B O U N C E*
 

"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in news:464a1987$0$97228$892e7fe2
@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net:

> Bucky Breeder wrote:
>
>> http://www.mailwasher.net/
>
>> Me, I like to bounce the crap out of them!!!
>
> Emailing your misdirected bogus 'bounces' to innocent forged spam Froms
> is both abusive to the recipients who didn't send the spam and 'dumb'
> [misgudied]. Doing so can potentially jeopardize your email account
> with your provider when your mail provider gets complaints about your
> misdirected newmails [which are not spam transaction rejection server
> 'bounces'] and also for your forging the provider's role account
> address.
>
>



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