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How does one set up the Outlook Express mail box from getting cluttered with those #%$*&! :58-  viagra emails? :103-  :52-

man , I hate them   ARGHHHH!

Most ISPs have a web logon in which you can mark certain emails as SPAM, that way when they hit the ISP they go into the bit-bin long before you ever download them with POP. POP = Post Office Protocol and that is what Outlook / Outlook Express uses to communicate with your ISP.

The problem with that method, however, is that if you fail to go online to check the spam or trash folder on a regular basis, you will no doubt lose emails that you wanted that were incorrectly identified by your ISP as spam. There's no fool proof solution.

Should be able to set up a rule for  all the various misspellings they use...

Tools > Message Rules will get you where you want to be...

Outlook has an automatic Junk Mail filter that puts junk mail in the junk mail folder and disables scripts, links, and image downloads for virus protection. It operates independently of the Rules that you can set up for managing incoming emails. (Which is good for folks like me who have over 20 rules and multiple inboxes to manage)

You tailor it as you go by right-clicking on junk emails that it misses and adding them to the blocked senders list. All future emails from that sender then go to the junk folder. You can also right-click on items placed in the junk folder by mistake and mark the sender as safe and the email as "not junk". Future emails from that sender will be left in your inbox. Micros#$t automatic Windows/Office updates also download and install updates to the junk mail filter on a regular basis.

Has anyone checked to see if Outlook Express has something similar?

No, it only has a blocked senders list in addition to the rules.

The problem with the blocked senders list is the ability of spammers to spoof the From: field, they never use the same address twice.

Oh well. That's where the Microcrap updates come in. In all fairness to MS, they do a pretty good job of keeping up with the spammers. I think that Outlook updates MS when you block an email and that they use the collected information to help update the list for everyone.

<ADD> You might take a look at the settings for the blocked senders list and see if you can add IP ranges, regions, countries, or encodings. For example, in Outlook I have blocked all senders from China, Russia and Germany. I have also blocked all emails using Cyrillic encoding.

No, you can only add email addresses. They want you to force you to buy Office if you want to cut down on  :142-

Switch to Thunderbird.

I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird....let's see what happens.... :96-

Let us know how it performs.  :71- :71-

Buy an IronPort system:
http://www.ironport.com/ (http://www.ironport.com/) :5-

We used Symantec premium antispam for Exchange at work.  It was wonderful.  I just switched our organization over to Google Apps for our mail  - and Ruden is correct - gmail's antispam is fantastic.  We saved the cost of MS Exchange, Symantec Antivirus and Symantic Antispam - over $15,000 per year.  And I don't have to manage the Exchange server -  priceless.  :3- :3-

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WOOHOO! :D

That's the product team I'm on at the Day Job.

We like to say 99+% effective against spam and fewer than 1 in 1 million false positives.

Awww, you acr like there's something wrong with Exchange...  :72- :72- :72- :97- :97- :72-

Yeppers! :89- :89-