dealing with SPAM in 2023

[PhilBurton]

I feel like I am losing the battle with the evil spammers. For a while, I was creating Outlook rules to move spam to the junk folder. I was also constantly clicking on the block sender button. However, these methods don't seem to work any longer but waste a lot of my time.

Is there an effective third-party solution?

 

[Diane Poremsky]

I just hit the delete button - it's fast.

if your mail host supports junk mail filtering, that would be a good option, otherwise, the best might be mail washer but it is a 2 step process - that leaves Outlook addins. Most 3rd party antivirus include spam filter addin - there are a few other addins but I have not tried any in years.

 

[PhilBurton]

I just hit the delete button - it's fast.

if your mail host supports junk mail filtering, that would be a good option, otherwise, the best might be mail washer but it is a 2 step process - that leaves Outlook addins. Most 3rd party antivirus include spam filter addin - there are a few other addins but I have not tried any in years.

Comcast seems to do a mediocre job of junk-mail filtering.

Mail Washer is a manual solution, no better really than your suggestion for hitting the delete key, at least for someone like me with only one email account.

I also use a throwaway Yahoo email address. That service is so malware-infested I'm surprised people still use it. I don't download Yahoo email into Outlook. I just mass-delete at the server once a month or so.

 

[CWM330]

I just hit the delete button - it's fast.

if your mail host supports junk mail filtering, that would be a good option, otherwise, the best might be mail washer but it is a 2 step process - that leaves Outlook addins. Most 3rd party antivirus include spam filter addin - there are a few other addins but I have not tried any in years.

+1 for MWP! <3

I don't mind having to take two steps using MWP.

It has SOOOOOOO many features like rules, and friends list, and block list.

Just leave MWP open, if you leave your computer on during the day, bring it up, glace over the emails, click the trash can on the ones you don't want, or black list them or make a rule for them and hit WASH MAIL, then launch your email client and "Download" for those of us on POP3.

PS, I got a lifetime license, many years ago, for VERY CHEAP during one of their MWP sales, and that guarentee's me free upgrades, I don't have to pay for new versions every time a new version comes out!

Chris

 

[PhilBurton]

Just curious about MWP. Once you identify a message source as spam, does it automatically filter out following messages from the list it presents you to review?

How are spam messages handled? Automatically deleted?

Phil

 

[CWM330]

Just curious about MWP. Once you identify a message source as spam, does it automatically filter out following messages from the list it presents you to review?

How are spam messages handled? Automatically deleted?

Phil

What happens is... When it sees a piece of email that is junk, it just turns the background color from WHITE or GREEN to RED, to let you know that, MWP thinks that email is spam.. Nothing else happens... You had to click the little trash can next to the email, and then hit WASH MAIL for it to be deleted.

WHITE means MWP thinks the email is neutral and the domain is not on your friends list

GREEN means MWP thinks the email is good ( The email will turn green for addresses or domains on your FRIENDS LIST)

RED means MWP thinks the email is spam, but it might be a legit email... But, it's up to you to inspect the email and tell MWP
if the email is good or not.

You can even make rules to delete emails AUTOMATICALLY on email check from certain domains, via regex expressions!

MWP has a friends list and a black list option too! I always add the spammers domain to the BLACKLIST.
Then, I set my blacklist to expire domains ( remove them from the blacklist) once I hit 2,000 entries. So that means those
addresses I've blocked are going to be on there for QUITE awhile! You dont have to set it that way, you can set MWP to
NEVER expire the domains, but I don't know what would happen once you got A TON of domains on your blacklist, Like if
MWP would run slower or etc? That I don't know.

Chris

 

[PhilBurton]

What happens is... When it sees a piece of email that is junk, it just turns the background color from WHITE or GREEN to RED, to let you know that, MWP thinks that email is spam.. Nothing else happens... You had to click the little trash can next to the email, and then hit WASH MAIL for it to be deleted.

WHITE means MWP thinks the email is neutral and the domain is not on your friends list

GREEN means MWP thinks the email is good ( The email will turn green for addresses or domains on your FRIENDS LIST)

RED means MWP thinks the email is spam, but it might be a legit email... But, it's up to you to inspect the email and tell MWP
if the email is good or not.

You can even make rules to delete emails AUTOMATICALLY on email check from certain domains, via regex expressions!

MWP has a friends list and a black list option too! I always add the spammers domain to the BLACKLIST.
Then, I set my blacklist to expire domains ( remove them from the blacklist) once I hit 2,000 entries. So that means those
addresses I've blocked are going to be on there for QUITE awhile! You dont have to set it that way, you can set MWP to
NEVER expire the domains, but I don't know what would happen once you got A TON of domains on your blacklist, Like if
MWP would run slower or etc? That I don't know.

Chris

Chris,

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

 

[CWM330]

Chris,

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

You're very welcome!

It's a very easy program to use... Even setting up REGEX filters is easy too!

--- Chris