posted on March 20, 2001 05:46:52 PM
Hello Everybody. I heard that you can set up rules in Outlook Express in an attempt to filter spam e-mails. Any assistance would be appreciated.
posted on March 20, 2001 06:07:45 PM
For OE 5, you go to Tools, Message Rules, and click the Mail choice. Click the New button, and you can create your Mail rule there. It's pretty straight forward really. You can create folders and have email from certain people sorted right into the correct folder. Play around with the rules, you shouldn't have any trouble.
posted on March 20, 2001 06:17:00 PM
Anything from eBay with the word "congratulations" in the message goes in my "to do" folder. Anything addressed directly to me goes to "my mai." I have a few other rules. The rest (mostly mail CC:'ed to me) goes to my Inbox. It's 99% spam.
posted on March 20, 2001 06:42:15 PM
One of the most effective filters is to make a rule that if your address (or addresses) is not in the TO: line, it's spam!
If you are on mailing lists, a filter to accept anything FROM the lists' email address must come before the final dump into the spam folder. Take out the ones you want, into the folders you want, and then the rest is suspect spam.
posted on March 21, 2001 09:29:09 AM
Suggestions are:
1. Filter for certain addresses or subjects which you might wish to move to special folders (not spam, i.e. Congratulations, Notification for Payment Received, Question for Seller, etc.)
2. Filter for mail addressed to you
3. Filter for mail cc'd to you
4. Filter for mail that might be bcc'd to you but you want.
5. Remainder of mail can be moved to Deleted Items folder, or "Bulk Mail" folder.
As you can see the order of these filters is very important as Outlook Expres starts with the first filter and works its way down until a criteria is met.
Although this won't entirely eliminate spam (spam actually addressed or cc'd to you will come through but bcc'd spam won't which is the majority) it can drastically reduce spam.
I also recommend using http://spamcop.net
Paste your e-mail into their web service and they send e-mails to the correct abuse@xxxx ISP. It brings a smile to read that a spammer's account and/or web-site was cancelled.
