Vista - Windows Mail

[boomerang]

Occasionally Comcast's spam filters let something through that is obviously spam. Windows Mail shows me a dialog box telling me that the e-mail looked suspicious (or something to that effect) and was moved to my Junk E-mail folder, but it still resides in my Inbox. Nothing ever gets moved to the Junk E-mail folder. I have messed with the settings to no avail.

My web searches have proved fruitless. I'm not seeing the problem out there and most certainly not the fix.

A minor annoyance, but it would be neat to correct the problem.

 

[AnnonUSA]

Windows Mail is horrible.

Download and install Thunderbird. Much better at everything. Including Spam detection.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: AnnonUSA
Windows Mail is horrible.

Download and install Thunderbird. Much better at everything. Including Spam detection.

Yes n' no...

Yes, Windows Mail is horrible (Microsoft even hates it) but, Thunderbird isn't any better, IMHO!

And... No, I'm not a Mozilla hater - been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix.

The best mail client going is WINDOWS LIVE MAIL!

You can thank me later... 😀

 

[boomerang]

If anyone knows a fix, I'd appreciate the help.

Suggesting another e-mail app wasn't what I had in mind.

 

[corkyg]

Maybe you need to do some tweaking of your Comcast settings. Everytime a spam leaks through to your mail box, add that sender or domain to your blacklist.

Comcast will also allow you to set up a white list only mail system. Only those listed by you will be allowed. Everything else gets quarantined as junk. You can review that before final destruction.

 

[nerp]

Windows Live Mail is a lot better and upgrading to that really is just an upgrade, not an entirely different program.

Give it a shot.

 

[Rubycon]

Isn't Windows Mail just Outlook Express all over again?

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Maybe you need to do some tweaking of your Comcast settings. Everytime a spam leaks through to your mail box, add that sender or domain to your blacklist.

Comcast will also allow you to set up a white list only mail system. Only those listed by you will be allowed. Everything else gets quarantined as junk. You can review that before final destruction.

Well, the issue isn't the spam itself as I get on average, about 3 a month. I'd like to correct the behavior of Windows Mail.

If 10 emails come in and Windows Mail tells me one was suspicious and there's nothing in the Junk E-mail folder, is it in my Inbox? There's no message flagged. Sometimes there is no spam in my Inbox. Did I actually get a spam message? If it's not in the Inbox and it's not in the Junk E-mail folder, where is it? Maybe it wasn't spam.

I tried to keep it short and sweet in my first post, but my real concern is am I losing messages? Windows Mail is not working as it should, so I don't trust it.

Yes, yes I know use another app.

I don't want to.

 

[M0RPH]

I'm not sure what you mean when you say Windows has told you about suspicious email. I can tell you how my Windows Mail works with junk mail. I have one account that gets a lot of it. It downloads the mail into the inbox at first and then the junk filter goes to work and I can see the messages moving from the inbox to the junk mail folder. I never get any messages from Windows about anything, though.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: boomerang
Windows Mail is not working as it should, so I don't trust it.

Yes, yes I know use another app.

I don't want to.

w00t!

I can go to bed now... 😀

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: M0RPH
I'm not sure what you mean when you say Windows has told you about suspicious email. I can tell you how my Windows Mail works with junk mail. I have one account that gets a lot of it. It downloads the mail into the inbox at first and then the junk filter goes to work and I can see the messages moving from the inbox to the junk mail folder. I never get any messages from Windows about anything, though.

The message can be toggled on or off. Yours is off.

 

[Rottie]

If Windows mail is terrible then Outlook 2007 is awful too?