CONFIRMED***HOTMAIL CUSTOM FILTERS = GARBAGE

[isekii]

I have about 15 filters i've set with special words in the subject line to be filtered out.
I get spam mail on my msn.com account and I think it's affiliated with Microsoft.
What other reasons would there be for not filtering out ?

Yes the software might be the cause of it, but I highly doubt it. It's only from this one specific place that gets through, and I can't even block them since they seem to be using a bootleg email address.

Do I have any recourse ?

 

[iwearnosox]

Pay for some popmail and support the e-conomy.

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Pay for some popmail and support the e-conomy.

I got that account when I had DSL with MSN.
they called it quits on DSL in my location so I have the email which they offered to me ( I dont think you can sign up for .msn.com email addresses )
Now i have earthlink but I use msn since I've had it for awhile

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Pay for some popmail and support the e-conomy.

 

[RudeBoie]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Pay for some popmail and support the e-conomy.

It's kind of hard to do that when you have 7 years worth of net experience connected to 1 email account.

Sure you might want to monitor it for a month, and contact people to update their info on you, but to completely cover everything is a bit hard, and in the end, it might cost you.

Well, that's my fear anyway.

isekii, have you tried "block sender?" I block their e-mail domain, not just the e-mail. Of course, lots of spam is with commone domains, like hotmail or yahoo, but my junk mail is fairly low when I combine that with the middle level of junk mail protection

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: RudeBoie

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Pay for some popmail and support the e-conomy.

It's kind of hard to do that when you have 7 years worth of net experience connected to 1 email account.

Sure you might want to monitor it for a month, and contact people to update their info on you, but to completely cover everything is a bit hard, and in the end, it might cost you.

Well, that's my fear anyway.

isekii, have you tried "block sender?" I block their e-mail domain, not just the e-mail. Of course, lots of spam is with commone domains, like hotmail or yahoo, but my junk mail is fairly low when I combine that with the middle level of junk mail protection

how do you block something like this ??

X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+Q1OJDRSDidP
Received: from ([65.141.191.184]) by mc7-f17.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600);
Mon, 12 May 2003 13:05:43 -0700
Subject:EFFECTIVE BILL FREE SOLUTION. lprw
To: <jlee4781@msn.com>
From: "Aalthea" <Aalthea@adrpqcth.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:38 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Return-Path: Aalthea@adrpqcth.com
Message-ID: <MC7-F17bTwYvBrPGzFY000181d7@mc7-f17.law1.hotmail.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2003 20:05:46.0250 (UTC) FILETIME=[E0022EA0:01C318C1]

 

[RudeBoie]

I think sometimes Hotmail deliberately screws with you so will you pay for their spam tools.

My custom filters (only get 10) actually work reasonably well.

isekii, I don't think you can do any advanced filtering under Hotmail's standard options, so that.......sucks