Re: How do I stop spam using Outlook Express

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From: N. Miller (duh_at_blackhole.aosake.net)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:51:20 -0700

In article <fee901c43ec5$c160ea10$a301280a@phx.gbl>, docblabo@netscape.net
says...

> I am getting tons of spam/junk mail and ads that I do not
> want.

> How do I stop these when using Outlook Expess?

You mostly can't; though there are ways to use MSOE to slow it down.

> My Netscape email account has good junk mail controls.
> When messages are downloaded they are automatically put in
> a "junk folder' where I can easily view them and make
> final decisions about each -- and my inbox is not crammed
> full of junk mail. Then if I mark a message as junk, the
> program recoginizes it and puts all future emails from the
> sender in the "junk folder". If I get a message that is
> not junk, I just mark it as "not junk" and all future
> messages from the sender are appropriatley put in my
> inbox, not the "junk folder".

> With my Netscape account, I don't have to mess with
> setting filters -- it does it all for me. Most of the time
> it is quite accurate.

Funny, my Netscape account has no junk controls whatsoever. However, the
Netscape 7.1 mail client does have an excellent integrated Naive Bayesian
spam filter.

> Yet most of the time I want to use Outlook Epxress since I
> do most of my suring in Internet Explorer, not Netscape.

Not the best reason to use a mail client. I use Mozilla 1.6 for my browser,
but I don't use it's integrated mail and news client. For mail I am running
Pegasus Mail (MUA)in conjunction with Mercury Mail (MTA). For news I mostly
use Super Gravity (MicroPlanet Gravity 2.60), but occasionally run Forté
Free Agent for times when I need good Unicode support.

> How do I get Outlook Expess to work like my Netscape
> account?

You run a third party Naive Bayesian filter. Two of the best are K9 and
POPFile:

http://keir.net/k9.html
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ 

-- 
Norman
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