Blocking Spam in Outlook Express

I have the same problem, If I just delete everything the spam starts to slow down, but if I block or unsubscribe, it just multiplies immensely. I only have the problem with msn mail. I do not have a problem with g-mail or yahoo mail. I have tried everything I can and still have to wade through 50 - 200 e-mails each day. I would just walk away from my msn mailbox if I could, but I'm paying $79.00 per month for it as part of a package deal with Quest internet. I wish there were an alternative, but when you live in a small town you have to accept the only provider or go without.

Open a Gmail account - it's free. Be sure to "mark as spam" anything that you don't want. I get at least 100 to 150 spams a day that go directly into my spam folder.Only 2 or 3 of them make it to my inbox. I use different email accounts for things such as entering contests or anything else that seems to draw spammers out from under the rock where they reside.

gOOD morning, guys. Thx for the notes. I kind of thot they may have a device that tells them when a computer uses the "Block Sender", which tells them to automatically keep sending that computer repeat messages. Logically, they couldn't expect to make any sales to a person like that, so the repeat messages must be their form of punishment for a person who has the audacity to try to block their sales message. Anyway, I will first simply delete them; hopefully that will be sufficient.

Good morning Randall. I'm assuming "unsubscribe" means "Block Sender". I've quit doing that as a result of an earlier response.

No: adding the sender to the blocked senders list is OK. It's replying with unsubscribe as the subject, or, clicking on an unsubscribe link which gives information back to the sender.

I agree with Gmail and you can tie ir into your pop email so you don't have to open the internet.I have used outlook but did not like having to block everything. I now use Thunderbird by Mozilla. the junk filter learns as it goes along.

Very little spam now.

Good morning DGCYS. What is meant by ir? Thx.

Sorry,

It "tie" into you pop email. See Gmail help for set up. It's easy and you have more control over your files.

DGCYS, thx, I will try it.

For outlook, go and check out "SpamBayes"

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Best part is that its Free, Learns, and you get to keep the cludgy Outlook

You may also need to install Python too.

http://www.python.org/

I have about 1000+ E-mails in my "Junk folder" (where spamBayes puts the junk) that I have running "Auto Archive" set to 1 month

If your running off a *nix server, have a look at dspam

Try a novel Spam solution that has no filters and no Junk folders at all - see www.enterto.com - you can use a bowser of a client like outllook

Jeff

If you are checking your mails only once or twice a day, I suggest you open a gmail account and also add the option of pulling mails from gmail into your outlook express.

Gmail has the option of pulling mails from yahoo, hotmail, etc. or from your own server at regular intervals. This is useful since gmail has a very good spam filter which should filter your unwanted spams from msn mail.

This way, your outlook express will download only filtered mails from msn and gmail, greatly reducing the spams.

Good morning Humble Ess. Thx for your note. I DO only check my email only 1 or 2/day; usually only 1.

I have a lot of business cards & contacts that have my email address. If I use Gmail, I will lose that address, right?

Due to not really much information, everyone is assuming the "upstream" source of this person's E-mails.

FlyingHigh: could you enlighten us as to how you configured your OE to collect its E-mails.

Private home collecting from a web mail account?

Private home with your own mail server

Company account collecting from the company E-mail server (generally, a Hotmail/Gmail/Yahoomail isn't used in company situations)

Good morning Snaketails. This is a private home. I use Outlook Express. If there is such a thing as simply "Outlook", what is the difference?

Stop using outlook is the best solution

For Gmail open gmail go to help\access choices\POP

There is help to open Gmail in the following:

• Outlook Express
• Outlook 2003
• Configuring other mail clients
• Thunderbird 2.0
• Apple Mail 3.0
• Outlook 2002
• iPhone
• BlackBerry Internet Service
• Windows Mail
• Outlook 2007
• Outlook 2007 Hope this helps

You might try developing a rule for forwarding certain inbound addresses to a spam folder (you need to create). That same rule would be able to delete the messages in your inbox at the same time. Full Outlook has that ability, but I don't know if Outlook Express has the same abilities. Look under "tools" and "rules and alerts".

Hope this helps.

You need to open MSN with your browser to change your Hotmail (now Windows Live mail) settings. To block the most spam (bulk mail) you will have to go to options once you have signed in to your email account. Under options you will see "more..." at the bottom of the drop down. Click on this and then on "filters and reporting" under "Junk E-mail." If you set your prefference to "Exclusive" your junk e-mail should go into your Bulk e-mail folder. Periodically check this folder to make sure you are not missing wanted messages then in Outlook express you can select all messages in this folder and delete them anytime you want.

Regards,

Keywalker

Use the post.