atw: Outlook spam filter question
- From: "Fullerton, Elizabeth" <Elizabeth.Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:48:48 +1000
> Just for a change of topic (I> '> ve been off-list for a couple of =
weeks, so apologies if this has been covered recently - I don> '> t have =
browser internet access from this site to check the archives) - since =
arriving back at this site and having my email address reactivated I> '> =
ve been receiving a heap of spam. Well, not a heap, probably a dozen =
mails per day.
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> I checked out Outlook> '> s (2000) junk email facility, and there is a =
file called filters.txt which it supposedly uses to filter junk email. =
So I> '> ve been adding the domains of the offending emails (eg =
hotmail.com), to redirect the mails to a separate folder, which I can =
check at my leisure for things which are not spam. But Outlook doesn> '> =
t seem to be using the filter. (Not surprisingly, it *does* redirect =
emails from lists which I voluntarily joined and actually *want* to =
receive!) Does anyone know anything about this?
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> And before we launch into the Great Email Tool Debate, I will be =
continuing to use Outlook - I> '> d just like to know if there> '> s =
maybe a checkbox or something somewhere that I need to click on to make =
it use the filter.
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> Thanks!
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