Re: how to always let Spam inspector access outlook email addresse

From: Gary W (GaryW_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:29:05 -0700

I just wrote Brian Tillman that I fixed the bug by downloading Spam
Inspector's latest fix.

I should learn more about proxys. Although I'm smart enough to figure it
out, I'm just too busy with real work to do much more computer learning.
Since most programs are intuitively simple these days, I'm grateful for and
gravitate toward them.

Thanks for your help.

"Vanguardx" wrote:

> "Gary W" <GaryW@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in news:CFBED46C-3C92-4478-9232-1094CF610C53@microsoft.com:
> > Thanks for your reply. So far, the new Outlook warning is an
> > annoyance, but it means I must say yes to 10-minutes of access in
> > order for Spam Inspector to do its thing. I hate to disable the
> > program, because I receive at least 300 spams per day. Problem is, I
> > leave for a week vacation soon and ISP may not accept and store that
> > many emails while I'm gone.
> >
> > I question why MS didn't give me the option to identify the suspect
> > program and then say I want it always to be able to access Outlook
> > Contacts. Why is it just a yes or no? Norton Internet Security gives
> > me the option to allow access for specific programs, why didn't MS do
> > the same?
>
> With a plug-in to Outlook, that's the only e-mail client the plug-in
> will work with. Outlook Express doesn't support plug-ins. A plug-in
> author may not produce versions for every e-mail client that does have
> support for plug-ins.
>
> Does Spam Inspector have an option to run as a local proxy? You then
> configure your e-mail client to connect through the local proxy and have
> it tag any messages it thinks are spam.
> http://www.giantcompany.com/kbArticle.aspx?prodID=20&articleID=82 and
> http://www.giantcompany.com/kbArticle.aspx?prodID=20&articleID=81 seems
> to indicate that Spam Inspector might run as a local proxy (they hide
> that function by saying it is an application called their Gateway). The
> latter link indicates how to reconfigure an e-mail account's settings to
> direct it to go through their proxy. So instead of using the plug-in,
> you could use their proxy. I suspect you then have to define a rule (or
> maybe they add one when you configure it) that will trigger on messages
> that got marked with a tag in the Subject header or a special header got
> added to the message to identify the spam. Outlook Express cannot test
> on but a few headers (Subject, To, Cc, From, etc.) so you cannot have it
> test on a special header, like "X-SpamInspector: SPAM", so the spam
> proxy has to add a tag to the Subject header, like "**SPAM**", so an OE
> rule can catch it.
>
> So what you could do is configure Spam Inspector for Outlook Express and
> then migrate those modified e-mail account settings in OE into Outlook.
> I always find 127.0.0.1 a bit obtuse in that it really doesn't tell me
> to what proxy the e-mail client will connect. So I would define a
> "127.0.0.1 SpamInspector" entry in my hosts file and then use
> "SpamInspector" (instead of 127.0.0.1) as the mail server in my e-mail
> client's accounts. If you chain multiple proxies together, it's handy
> to see which one is which. I do have more than one proxy in the chain
> for my Yahoo accounts and I use SpamPal for spam filtering (Outlook <--
> SpamPal <-- YahooPOPs <-- Yahoo) so it helps to know for which one I'm
> configuring in what fields in my e-mail client. But if you only have
> one proxy then it might not be worth the extra effort.
>
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