outlook express: blocking junk mail

[redhead]

ok... ive googled this but to no avail..

recently ive been getting junk mails, with a (supposed) screensaver attached, (.scr) and nothing in the sender column... and im just wondering if anyone would be able to help me block them? ive applied several "message rules" but they dont seem to stop the things... and i can not just delete all the emails with attachments as i recieve emails with attachments containing info for websites im making or whatever... so... if anyone out there has found a way to block the emails with blank senders... let me know ;)

toodle ooo

[justame]

red...
havvve ya just a thought® of getting something like...
www.spambully.com ???
/me hasnt just a used® it 'cept it seems like its pretty 'smart'...lol... costs 30bucks though...:O(((

orrr...whattt /me has just a done® for the 'filters' in eudora??? /me just a noticed® thattt the 'first' email 'to' was just a common® to lots of the spam??? sooo /me said...heyyy ifin' thisss...'common@email.com' is there??? just a trash® it...

[Mhtml]

Like Justame said;
There has to be an address, even if it's the mail server the person uses chances are that it won't be the same as one of your clients so you should apply a rule to delete all from that address..

[redhead]

okeydokes, thanks for that suggestion justame... im looking into that spam bully thingame at the moment... :)

ok... brace yourselves for my ignorance when it comes to how emails work... never was very interested when poeple explained it ;) well i havent yet learnt how to decipher these darn "header" jibber jabbers...From: <>
To: jon AT joncaws.co.uk
Subject: Learn How To Love
Date: Sun,30 Mar 2003 16:57:45 PM
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type:multipart/mixed;
boundary=#r0xx#
Message-Id: <E18zeJc-000EHK-00@mail.freeola.net>
X-UIDL: 12e699111e1851faf8cb2bec60031386
Status: Uwell... herm... /me just wonders where the from address is?... i would have thought it was in the < ... >'s next to 'From: ' but i dont see anything there...

ok well never mind i was just looking to see if i could set it to not accept anything with nothing in the from bit... maybe there are some things the human mind is not meant to understand... ;)

[scroots]

i would say 90% that the email was spam as the senders email adress is <> which is empty.

so just block the address <>

scroots

[redhead]

done... *waits for more junk mail to come his way...*

[scroots]

I have my own junk mail policy, I allow spam in only to send to there internet providers, and to complain to web hosts. I get sapm selling stuff, one sadi we accept payment through mail and gave there postal address.

scroots

[oracleguy]

Another good anti-spam program is "I Hate Spam" I know its compatible with Outlook so I assume it will work with Outlook Express. The program is really great and its cut down on almost all of my spam. It even has a feature to send a "address does not exist" email back to the source which I thought was pretty nifty.

[Shift4Sms]

The managing all the rules to have Outlook Express filter SPAM became a nightmare for me. A co-worker referred me to POPFile. It works great. I know this sounds like an ad but it is one of the few free products that is worth paying money for. It can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137

[scroots]

i still think you take up my idea, if the site is a real site you moan to the help desk and tell them you know big people in the media.
result,
muhahahaha, apology and instant removal.
if the site is a fake selling junk etc. report to ISP then you can cackle some more.


scroots