Filter/Killfile functionality in Outlook and OE

I've got a new machine sitting beside my old one here. I'm using
Netscape 4.79 on the old machine for email and have managed to deal with
the latest email virus, which is causing someone or some people to be
sending me email by the hundreds, using Message Filters.

I need the same functionality on the new machine and will be trying
Outlook or OE on the new machine since they came as part of the package
and I've already got them. I've already figured out that I can use OE
for newsgroups but not Outlook. Which one would I do better with for
email if I need to filter in complex ways, e.g., filter by body, subject
or sender, not just sender? The only way to catch all these "microsoft
has sent you the latest..." and "undeliverable mail to" seems to be by
using all three.

Thanks in advance.

-S-

 

Try Ron Martell's suggested (OE) filter.
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I am by no means an expert on these matters but here goes anyway(experts
feel free to contradict me or to suggest some other solutions).
1. If you've not "munged" your email address or added a spam trap to it, it
is unlikely that you will avoid this plague of emails containing the SWEN
virus. You are particularly vulnerable if you use kazaa or other file
sharing network.
2. You should have current antivirus software with the latest definitions
installed. I use Norton 2003 Internet Security. Norton antirus has
successfully cauught half a dozen or so virii that I or some other of my
household have indvertantly triggered by being less than careful about
opening email. I also have the most recent Microsoft security patch
installed (NOT the one referred to in the spam plague)! I have avoided
infection.
3. I use a program called Mailwasher which downloads all my email headers
doen from my ISP so that I can browse through these or prospect for my
legitimate mail. The spam is very readily identifable from the headers.
Mailwasher has a "bounce" feature which is to be avoided at all costs. It
does not bounce spam back to the spammer but bounces it out of your system
back into circulation around the net and to people who may be your friends,
but who have not protect their systems who may have inadvertently sent you
the spam in the first place. Mailwasher does have a blacklist feature which
is useful. When you blacklist spam in Mailwasher you effectively mark it for
deletion. Thus if it returns it is identied by a tick. Browsing through as
many as a hundred headers in a single day and blacklisting/deleting spam
from my mailbox took me ten minutes in the first instance. This time got
shorter as time passed as many of the headers had already been ticked and as
time has passed the volume appears to be dropping. I expect about twenty per
day now which represents progress.
I would like to disembowel the freaks behind this outrage, fry their vitals
and force feed them with them before throwing them to the dogs. However,
being a simple soul and realising my cyber limitations, I've begun to take
it all rather philosophically. It's pointless to live in England and
complain about the rain! It's equally pointless to worry about the existence
of spam. I now have built a five minute routine when I check my email before
downloading it. Rather like emptying a litter box each day.
Hope this helps or inspires others to be even more helpful.