How to block spam from POP3 mail?

I have been getting a large number of spam e-mails over the past
month. They mostly advertise the same products and are sent from
e-mail addresses that are not valid. I use Entourage and my e-mail
server is a POP3. What is the best way of blocking these spams? Does
Entourage have any set up to do this? If not, what spam-blocker would
you recommend?

Thank you for your help.
-Bijan.

Diane
Sat Dec 27 17:25:40 CST 2003

On 12/27/03 2:51 PM, in article
1c6ef92d.0312271451.1388437b@posting.google.com, "Bijan Ahmadian"
<bijan@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> I have been getting a large number of spam e-mails over the past
> month. They mostly advertise the same products and are sent from
> e-mail addresses that are not valid. I use Entourage and my e-mail
> server is a POP3. What is the best way of blocking these spams? Does
> Entourage have any set up to do this?

Yes. See Junk Mail Rule for how to set up.
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/rules_junk.html>


>If not, what spam-blocker would you recommend?

Many users have had excellent results with SpamSieve.

Using SpamSieve with Entourage
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/spamsieve.html>


--
Diane Ross
Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>

Gnarlodious
Sat Dec 27 17:42:25 CST 2003

Entity Bijan Ahmadian spoke thus:

> What is the best way of blocking these spams? Does
> Entourage have any set up to do this? If not, what spam-blocker would
> you recommend?
Spam is impossible to "block", the best you can hope for is to keep it to a
minimum. My favorite solution is to report it piece by piece to an address
you can probably get from your ISP. Most ISP's have a filtering system but
for it to work they need spam reported to them with the mail's "header" so
they can identify where it came from. For this purpose I use an Applescript
written by Paul Berkowitz:
<http://Gnarlodious.com/Workshop/AppleScript/Entourage-SpamToEarthlink.html>

This script lets you forward the spam to an address with one click in the
script menu. What this means is that you will be a community participant in
the war against spam and let your ISP know someone takes the time to report
it.

Other than that, there isn't a whole lot you can do. Spammers are very
clever at bypassing filters based on text and return addresses. You can
subscribe to an "Antispam service" but that sort of defeats the purpose by
forcing your friends to do extra work to send you mail. Unfortunately that
practice is becoming more popular.

Hope that explains a bit.

-- Gnarlie
http://www.Spectrumology.com
Spectrumology is the science of chaos.