Outlook Express

[Robert Poole]

I have outlook express, and I'm having a bit of problem and that is that I get 40+ e-mails in it everyday and all of them want me to buy drugs, give me hot tips for stocks or cheep software purchases. What I need is a good spam filter, does anybody have any suggestions?



Thanks and have a good one



Bob

 

[Travis Munday]

Yeah, download Mozilla Thunderbird.



Free, and it's great at filtering out spam. It takes a week or so for the full effect of the spam filters to kick in, but once they do, you'll wonder how you ever got by before. You're even able to import your Outlook address book so you don't have a lot of re-typing to do.

 

[Kelly Hayes]

You are also able to create a list of e-mail addresses to block.



Go to your Inbox and click on Tools, then Mesage Rules and then Blocked Senders List.



You then add the address to the list.

 

[Wes Davis]

Switch to an online email service such as Google, Yahoo or Hotmail. They all have automatic spam filtering that can easily be customizable (this has completely eliminated my spam). There are also a ton of other benefits such as being able to check your email from any internet connected computer. You maybe getting these emails because of a spyware program running on your computer. Run an updated virus check and spyware check regularly.

 

[Deleted deleted]

Kelly: Blocking domain names is only partially helpful. Most of the spammers use software that constantly changes the domain names on their spam, so you won't be able to stop them.



I've tried that at work where I get tons of unwanted e-mail spam and it has not made a dent in the number of spams I get.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Robert, who is your ISP? I use Outlook Express with my Comcast broadband account, and Comcast has a spam blocker that you can activate for each mail account. In this way they get filtered on their mail server. Your ISP may already have this.

 

[Brian Curry]

I chanced my email address .Keep the new one for friends only. went to a junk email (canada.com) . sign up to sites with the junk address. Have not had spam email for two years

 

[Thomas Rogers]

That's a good idea, Brian, as long as you choose an mail account name that isn't easily assumed. For example, a lot of people use: <Lastname><FI><Digits>@somedomain.com. (e.g. [email protected]). Some spammers simply auto-gen user names from variants of words found in a dictionary and bombard mail domains with email to them. If you have an easily guessed email name, you could easily get up to 100 spam emails a day just from this technique.



However, on the flipside, if you have some esoteric, seemingly random email account name (e.g. [email protected]) then how are your friends going to remember it?



TJR

 

[TomT]

If you can get hold of a copy of Office 2003. Outlook has it's own spam filtering. Also Norton makes a pretty good spam filtering program.

 

[shawn stonbraker 2]

I went onto download.com and got Cactus Spam Filter. It's free and pretty easy to use. It will learn from you what you consider spam and after a while you can set it up to not even download them from the server.

 

[EddieS'04]

I use outlook express also...I have my spam filters setup at the web base site, where the mail downloads from...also I chose an email address that is awkward for the spamer to to figure out..that one is for friends and family only...then I have a hotmail address such as the one I use for MYST...it gets spamed continuosly...

 

[Todd Z]

I have 3 addresses...

1 for this site only

1 for ebay, on line junk, purchases and stuff like that

1 for family only...



The ebay one gets Spam like crazy, the other 2 are spam free...

Todd Z

 

[Fred]

I have like 10 or 12 addresses. :wacko: Why? I dunno.