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Resolved Good spam blocker needed for Windows Mail

Discussion in 'Microsoft Mail (Outlook / OE / Windows Mail)' started by saddletrampus, 2009/10/13.

  1. 2009/10/13
    saddletrampus

    saddletrampus Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am not mad about Windows Mail, but after a couple of years perseverance, I have got used to it.

    What I am not used to is the heap of spam I have been receiving lately.

    This mainly due to a change of system by my email service provider.

    They had a nice simple way of combatting spam. As well as various software and logical techniques, the best thing it had was the option to 'script' how to deal with incoming mails.

    The most powerful and useful function it had, and all the various spam fighters and plugins I have looked at, DON'T HAVE, was;

    The ability to tell it what was not a valid email address of MINE. Which is great, if like me you have a 'catchall' email inbox.

    I have around 10 'pseudonyms' I use for various reasons, (e.g. windowsbbs@mydomain.com). That way, I don't need to give my regular email to everyone, and I can also control incoming mail.

    With my old server, I could use a bit of simple boolean to filter the junk by using if/not/and/or logic.

    Of course, they, (the provider), think they have improved their product by adding calendars etc., when in fact it's causing me headaches dealing with the 1000+ spams a day.

    Does anyone know of (preferably) a plugin for WM, which would allow me to simply tell it - "If To=xyz@mydomain.com,put in inbox, and continue to next ",etc., etc., and instruction 11 would be "If To <> me@mydomain.com, then junk it ".

    That's basically what I had and it worked a treat.

    There must be something out there other than the standard "enter all your good senders, then enter all your bad senders "

    Spammers these days are getting so clever. I got the same message 150 times and ALL from different spoofed up addresses!

    Any ideas? - do you know of anything that has this simple feature?
     
  2. 2009/10/27
    saddletrampus

    saddletrampus Inactive Thread Starter

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    Problem now solved!
     

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