Filtering Spam with Forged Return-Address

The Entourage X Junk Mail Filter works well when I set it to max
sensitivity, but it fails to catch spammers that forge their
return-address with my email address. Entourage thinks I sent the email
and does not route it to my Junk folder. How can I route spam with a
forged return-address to my Junk mail folder?

Thanks, Will

Dave
Thu Sep 25 12:02:30 CDT 2003

On 9/24/03 8:58 PM, in article 240920032058405364%deatrick@cox.net, "Will
Deatrick" <deatrick@cox.net> wrote:

> The Entourage X Junk Mail Filter works well when I set it to max
> sensitivity, but it fails to catch spammers that forge their
> return-address with my email address. Entourage thinks I sent the email
> and does not route it to my Junk folder. How can I route spam with a
> forged return-address to my Junk mail folder?
>
> Thanks, Will

You can set up a Rule: if sender is deatrick@cox.net then change status to
Junk Mail.

Will
Thu Sep 25 22:10:17 CDT 2003

Thanks for the suggestion, Dave. But will this rule send any email I
carbon-copy to myself into the Junk Folder?

Will


In article <BB986DB6.2DB3%dc@dev.null>, Dave Cortright <dc@dev.null>
wrote:

> On 9/24/03 8:58 PM, in article 240920032058405364%deatrick@cox.net, "Will
> Deatrick" <deatrick@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > The Entourage X Junk Mail Filter works well when I set it to max
> > sensitivity, but it fails to catch spammers that forge their
> > return-address with my email address. Entourage thinks I sent the email
> > and does not route it to my Junk folder. How can I route spam with a
> > forged return-address to my Junk mail folder?
> >
> > Thanks, Will
>
> You can set up a Rule: if sender is deatrick@cox.net then change status to
> Junk Mail.
>

Jeremy
Thu Sep 25 23:35:18 CDT 2003


"Will Deatrick" <deatrick@cox.net> wrote in message
news:240920032058405364%deatrick@cox.net...
> The Entourage X Junk Mail Filter works well when I set it to max
> sensitivity, but it fails to catch spammers that forge their
> return-address with my email address. Entourage thinks I sent the email
> and does not route it to my Junk folder. How can I route spam with a
> forged return-address to my Junk mail folder?
>
> Thanks, Will

I've found the no matter what rules you put in place in Entourage (or
OL2003) unless you're using a blocklist (such as bl.spamcop.net) or
pre-filtering (eg spamcop.net) your failure rate is going to be high.
Until Entourage gets an update to block webbugs (usually images in the mail
that confirm the message has arrived) even clicking on a spam message to
move it to the junk folder is going to cause you problems if the HTML
appears in the preview window. OL2003 has this facility, so hopefulyl
Entourage isn't too far behind.
BTW Although I recommend spamcop I'm just a paying customer, who hates
spammers and love reporting them to their ISP !

Keith
Fri Sep 26 11:09:04 CDT 2003

On 09-25-2003 11:35 PM, in article ukqcde#gDHA.4024@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
"Jeremy E Cath" <zzarg@DontMailMeAtHotmail.com> wrote:

> I've found the no matter what rules you put in place in Entourage (or
> OL2003) unless you're using a blocklist (such as bl.spamcop.net) or
> pre-filtering (eg spamcop.net) your failure rate is going to be high.
> Until Entourage gets an update to block webbugs (usually images in the mail
> that confirm the message has arrived) even clicking on a spam message to
> move it to the junk folder is going to cause you problems if the HTML
> appears in the preview window. OL2003 has this facility, so hopefulyl
> Entourage isn't too far behind.

Simply do not let [complex] HTML access the web (in Read mail preferences).

It would be nice if you could turn on access for individual emails (after
confirming they are not spam), but certainly do not access the web by
default.

Keith Esau
kaesau@nospam.sbcglobal.net

Jeremy
Sat Sep 27 22:28:16 CDT 2003


"Keith Esau" <kaesau@nospam.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:BB99CED0.C2BF%kaesau@nospam.sbcglobal.net...
> On 09-25-2003 11:35 PM, in article ukqcde#gDHA.4024@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
> "Jeremy E Cath" <zzarg@DontMailMeAtHotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've found the no matter what rules you put in place in Entourage (or
> > OL2003) unless you're using a blocklist (such as bl.spamcop.net) or
> > pre-filtering (eg spamcop.net) your failure rate is going to be high.
> > Until Entourage gets an update to block webbugs (usually images in the
mail
> > that confirm the message has arrived) even clicking on a spam message to
> > move it to the junk folder is going to cause you problems if the HTML
> > appears in the preview window. OL2003 has this facility, so hopefulyl
> > Entourage isn't too far behind.
>
> Simply do not let [complex] HTML access the web (in Read mail
preferences).
>
> It would be nice if you could turn on access for individual emails (after
> confirming they are not spam), but certainly do not access the web by
> default.
>
> Keith Esau
> kaesau@nospam.sbcglobal.net
>
just like the OL2003 feature !
I dislike having to turn it off across the board as a number of my clients
use HTML emails (with remote images etc) on a regular basis. Perhaps if they
were blocked in preview but not if opened it would be an improvement