How to set up an effective spam filter for Outlook Express

[FrustratedUser]

I have this huge problem with spam (200+/day). I have made some filters based on keywords but it's not taking out nearly as much spam as I want.
Anyone have idea how to make a good filter?

 

[Walleye]

thunderbird.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Well OK, but the question is about Outlook Express.

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Well OK, but the question is about Outlook Express.

well, then, the solution is to change email clients 😉



hehe, i just dont know. i prefer firebird to IE, so i tried thunderbird, it's straitforward enough for my purposes.

 

[FrustratedUser]

What kind of filter functions does it have that OE doesn't have?

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
What kind of filter functions does it have that OE doesn't have?

spamblocking built in 😉

edit:

sorry, didnt see word "filter"

it's not a word based filter, it's a pattern based filter. so you train it for awhile, then set it loose.

 

[h8red]

bump because I'd like to know too (sick of paris hilton being spelled 18 billion ways)

 

[SilentRunning]

The way I set it up is to create subfolders in the inbox for the mail I expect and one subfolder for bulk mail. so it is something like this:


Inbox
------Bulk Mail
------Contacts
------------Adams, Jim
.
.
.
------------Smith, John
------Shopping
------------BestBuy
------------CircuitCity
.
.
.


Then I create rules for each expected email for example: (Where the from line contains Bestbuy, move to BestBuy folder and stop processing more rules)

Since the rules are executed in the order listed, the last rule is just move to the Bulk Mail folder (Where the To or CC contains [your email address] move to Bulk Mail folder) . Anything which is not expected defaults to the Bulk Mail folder.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
What kind of filter functions does it have that OE doesn't have?

I wish that instead of a 'blocked senders' message rule, OE offered an "allowed senders" rule that blocks/deletes all messages from senders who are not on your allowed list. That would be all I need.

Fortunately, I don't receive much spam through my ISP account. Yahoo Mail, however, is getting down-right ridiculous. I don't understand what happened. I've actively used my Yahoo Mail account since 1999 and never received more than a few spam messages per week until about eight months ago. Then it went from a few messages per week, to a few messages per day, to two dozen messages per day, over the course of about a month, and I can't trace it to any particular thing I might have submitted my address to.

My 6MB account space will completely fill-up every 72 hours (or less) if I don't purge messages more frequently. At least Yahoo Mail is fairly good at separating bulk/spam into the Bulk/Spam Mail folder. Only 5%~10% of the spam gets through to my inbox.

DEATH TO SPAMMERS!