Re: Dealing with MULTIPLE Junk mail

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I spent some considerable time testing this utility with XP and it was better than any of the built in filters in ANY mail programs, Microsoft or otherwise. It never upset Outlook Express on XP but I have not tried it with Vista.

http://getpopfile.org/

It basically sits between your mail server and client, pretending to be your server as far as the client is concerned.

In fact while testing I used the one copy of it to filter the email for several computers, so I only had to train it once. It learns what you consider to be spam quite quickly.

Blocked senders is not really successful because spammers use fake addresses and stolen genuine ones, and they are stored in the registry so eventually would likely cause trouble and become impractical.

I have had one or two email addresses that never get spam, the one I use here gets thousands because I use it here, literally, so get your IPS to give you two addresses and keep one exclusively for your bank, business email, reputable companies etc.


Avery Tom Deacon Harry wrote:
My inbox regularly gets hundreds of items of junk mail, despite the filter which is supposed to stop the garbage.
I can find the mail I want to keep alright but that leaves me with an inbox full of garbage.
M'soft should issue an update to the windows mail program that makes it possible to highlight ALL the mail left, right click and do a MULTIPLE "junk email...add sender to blocked senders list". However, at the moment one has to go through each email individually.
"One-at-a-time" is ok when you don't get much junk email (say on a brand new address) but when your email address is more than a few hours old then you are stuffed. It takes as long (or longer) to go through the emails individually and move them to the junk mail folder one at a time (blocking the senders address) as it did before junk mail filters came along and one just deleted the rubbish straight away, thus defeating the purpose of having the mail filters in the first place.

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