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kwondo

Lately I have been receiving these emails and I've no idea how they were started. The problem is that my Entourage can't properly filter them as junk because the sender's name is a random letters and also some are actual but ficticious names. The link in the email provides "to remove go here" where I have done it once and it is actually a subscription to open all floodgates of these funny at first but overaboundant junk mails. Is there a way to properly filter them?

alcimedes

perhaps filtering on phrases such as "Penis size" and "Maximum Sex" would help?

running with scissors

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Originally posted by alcimedes

perhaps filtering on phrases such as "Penis size" and "Maximum Sex" would help?

or better yet, stop visiting all those penis sites.

dmband0026

One of the worst things you can do is to click on one of the "click here to be removed from this list" things. All that does is let the spammers know that there is actually a person checking that e mail, so they send more. Like alcimedes said, filter words and phrases, or only allow people in your address book to send you mail. Or just use Mail, the filter in that is top quality. Only about 1, sometimes 2, pieces of junk mail get through a month.

moogs

These a-holes are just carpet-bombing every known email domain there is. I know people who don't even surf the web that apparently get Viagra and penis enlargement spam. I also notice search engine dipwads are starting to spam a lot to "increase your site's rankings!".



Just LETFA, thanks. Spammers deserve a life sentence in San Quentin, so they can truly become the bitches that they really are.

giaguara

use hotmail for eveything like subsriptions or openings of any services. the only good thing there is block sender with one click. so keep your email private.



i'd add a "to remove" and "click here" to the filters. if the email contains those words >>> trash. there is no reason why any legitimate email would have "click here", unless your friends are aol users .. i mean, a bit .. simple. just give you the url, you probably figure that you could click it.



i'd also want to trash all email that is html formatted. of those 1 % is legitimate, and 0,5 % is somethign i care about.

zo

Also, try Bouncer for Entourage...



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jimdreamworx

If you need a temporary email address, try www.mailinator.com - and by temporary I mean one where you are asked for an email to register something, they send you the email, and that's all you wanted. Works great!

luca

I used Eudora for a little while (before it had a junk filter) and I found the best way to filter spam was to block the sender's entire domain. It took a few weeks, but after a while most of my spam was being blocked. They'll always find new domains and stuff to exploit, but it works better than blocking a specific email address. Just be careful about blocking big domains (like AOL, Earthlink, etc) where you might get legitimate email, although generally those big domains are better about keeping away spammers.



Another option is to use Apple's Mail program instead. The junk filter for it is very good out of the box, and nearly flawless once you train it for a week or two. I realize that you may need Entourage for one reason or another, but it's got the worst spam filtering of all the email programs I've seen. Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora 6, and Mail all have adaptive spam filtering. Entourage has the same crap that's been in Outlook Express for years.



A few other good suggestions - make sure you turn off HTML in messages, so it doesn't load HTML objects put in email. That's one way of confirming your address - if you open an HTML message, it requests stuff from a server, and that proves you exist. Turn off the preview pane if necessary, so you can delete a message without opening it. Of course never click the "Remove Me" links. And if you have to give your email someplace you don't trust for some reason, get an alternate email account to use for it.

kwondo

Luca,



Thanks for your helpful info. One question, how/where do you select to turn off the HTML? Some of these junk mails are not HTML format either. They're just getting more and more sly. I do use preview pane because it is so much more convienent for me to go through my mail as I get a lot of legit ones ( I have over 8000 mails thatI have yet gone through-work related).

drewprops

Boy Howdy, I stopped using the Preview Pane as soon as HTML mail become common. It appears to me that some of the HTML code I've examined is written so that the image files that load in are accessed in such a way that the originator of the spam can tell if YOU SPECIFICALLY opened the mail, giving them confirmation that your address is an active account. Anyone else got better data about this?



I have a series of Entourage rules set up.



First off, is it really from me? I'm trying to craft this filter to examine the headers to see if a mail that claims to be from me actually originated from my account.



Next, is the person who sent it in your address book? Then it's a slam dunk that you'll probably want to read it (or at least file it with your legit mail).



I have several others set up, some to route recurring mailings (like stuff from Apple) into a special folder for that type of mail.



Writing good filters has become an interesting coding exercise...