Message Rules

[John Barnett - MVP]

Outlook Express doesn't 'snag' them simply because it is
only a basic version and therefore not designed to do it.
What you can do is use something like mailwasher -
unfortunately you can only use it with one email account.
First set mailwasher up and then run it. It will collect
all your emails from the specified account. All you need
do then is go down the list of emails, right click on any
you don't like and select 'blacklist' from the menu list.
Alternatively, if the email is from a friend, right click
and select 'friend' from the list. Finally press
the 'process mail' button and all the blacklisted mail
will be deleted or, if it has a genuine return address,
be bounced back to the sender. Mailwasher will then open
outlook express for you and only download the mail you
want. Obviously, you will always need to open mailwasher
first in order for it to obtain your mail. After you have
read your mail in Outlook Express close Outlook Express
down, otherwise any new porn mail etc will get through.
You can get a free copy of mailwasher from
www.mailwasher.net

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Pro and am using Microsoft Outlook
>Express for my e-mail. I set my "Message Rules" to
>delete any mail which contains certain (offensive) words
>in the subject line and message body, because I have
been
>swamped with porn and other spam, lately. I'm still
>getting spam mail with these words in the message body,
>though. I have no idea why I've been getting this crap,
>because I don't visit this kind of arena on the
>internet. Anyway, why doesn't Outlook Express snag
these
>before they reach my Inbox?
>.
>

[Ionizer]

"John Barnett - MVP" > wrote in message
...
> Outlook Express doesn't 'snag' them simply because it is
> only a basic version and therefore not designed to do it.
> What you can do is use something like mailwasher -
> unfortunately you can only use it with one email account.
> First set mailwasher up and then run it. It will collect
> all your emails from the specified account. All you need
> do then is go down the list of emails, right click on any
> you don't like and select 'blacklist' from the menu list.
> Alternatively, if the email is from a friend, right click
> and select 'friend' from the list. Finally press
> the 'process mail' button and all the blacklisted mail
> will be deleted or, if it has a genuine return address,
> be bounced back to the sender. Mailwasher will then open
> outlook express for you and only download the mail you
> want. Obviously, you will always need to open mailwasher
> first in order for it to obtain your mail. After you have
> read your mail in Outlook Express close Outlook Express
> down, otherwise any new porn mail etc will get through.
> You can get a free copy of mailwasher from
> www.mailwasher.net
>
> Hope this helps
>
> John Barnett - MVP
> Associate Expert

John:

How accurate do you feel MailWasher is in its attempts at bouncing messages
back to the true original spam sender? I always liked that feature but I've
been cautioned by several posters in various newsgroups about using the
"bounce" feature, in their belief that these bounces weren't really going
back to the original source at all, so that "bouncing" accomplished little
aside from causing unnecessary internet traffic.

Thanks,
Ian.

[johnf]

> "John Barnett - MVP" > wrote in message
> ...
>> First set mailwasher up and then run it.
>> John Barnett - MVP
>> Associate Expert
>
> John:
>
> How accurate do you feel MailWasher is in its attempts at bouncing
> messages back to the true original spam sender? I always liked that
> feature but I've been cautioned by several posters in various
> newsgroups about using the "bounce" feature, in their belief that these
> bounces weren't really going back to the original source at all, so
> that "bouncing" accomplished little aside from causing unnecessary
> internet traffic.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian.

I just blacklisted myself & it bounced back to me as "Returned mail: User
unknown."

Johnf