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date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:13:44 +0100,
group: microsoft.public.office.mac.entourage
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Re: Junk Filter
Mr. Smith,
I am having the same problem, when I incresed my filter level to Exclusive
and created several rules for "Viagra", "Debt Consolidation" and "Paris
Hilton" and yet the garbages contiues to stream in at the rate of 100 to 120
a day.
Any other thoughts?
Mark
"William Smith" wrote:
> Nic Doodson wrote:
>
> > I've recently moved from Office (Outlook) 2007 to Entourage 2008 and thus
> > embraced Mac. So far so good, but one thing that is bugging me is that the
> > Entourage Junk filter doesn't catch about 90% of the junk I get. Outlook
> > 2007 got most of it....any suggestions? I've changed the junk filter to
> > "High" -- i.e. Catch anything...does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Hi Nic!
>
> The Entourage Junk E-mail Protection filter is not a learning filter.
> You will have to edit it to include domains you know are sending you
> junk as well as senders.
>
> Also, be sure you use the "Junk" icon to mark messages as junk. This
> will keep their addresses from appearing in your Most Recently Used list.
>
> You can also create rules to automatically mark messages as junk by
> looking for key junk words such as "Rolex" and "Viagra".
>
> Would you be comfortable setting your junk settings to Exclusive? This
> would require you have valid senders' addresses in your Address Book or
> else messages are marked as junk.
>
> Also, look at what your service provider offers for filtering junk mail
> on the server. All E-mail servers should have some sort of filters
> installed to block the majority of junk. I know with my Comcast accounts
> I have to log in to my accounts with a web browser and set the junk
> protection there.
>
> Finally, you could look at a third party solution such as SpamSieve.
> It's a great product from what I've heard from others.
>
> FYI, this newsgroup has been deprecated and replaced with
> microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage. Be sure to post any further
> questions in that group rather than this one. You'll have a lot more
> eyes seeing your messages there.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --
>
> bill
>
> William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
> Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
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date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:32:01 -0700
author: Toomuch spamguy Toomuch spamguy @discussions.microsoft.com
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