Generally refers to techniques that aid in avoiding receiving any email or message that is either unwanted or unsolicited.
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Valid email account sends spam regularly
A friend's yahoo email account sends emails with subjects like:
This Kit changed all my life
no regrets after doing this venture
Look what i found here!
What can he do to about it?
Thanks!
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How to stop the obvious spam in messenger without removing contact?
A trusted friend of mine has been sending me spam for the last few weeks. This is obviously hacked or something. But I don't which account is it since his yahoo, facebook, linkedin and what not ...
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Filtering junk mail in Outlook 2007 where sender is using my email address
I keep getting mail which I try to filter as junk. Problem is, it is sent from my e-mail address while writing that the name of the sender is "Viagra yada yada yada (myRealEmail@email.com)"
I can't ...
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How to Stop auto sending Delivery Status Notifications in Thunderbird
I'm using thunderbird and I have the odd spammer which is sending emails with a delivery status notification which is basically telling them that we are a living person and to send more.
Is there a ...
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How can I make bogofilter update the X-Bogosity header from Unsure to Ham?
I have a mutt macro that classifies mail as either Spam (F9) or Ham (F10) by running it through bogofilter.
However, I would like the X-Bogosity header to be updated when I do this, rather than ...
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How do I report email with malware from a friend without getting him blocked?
For the past few weeks, I have received a lot of malware-ridden email from a friend who has expressed an inability to fix the problem with his computer at this time. (I sent him an SU link for ...
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How do I raise the SmarterMail maximum scanning size for a message?
I've got this one spammer sending really lengthy spam. They're brilliant, these guys are top notch and I'd suggest anyone who wants to spam the hell out well configured spamassassin protected boxes ...
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Mail.app and gmail spam
gmail's spam filter learns very quickly and marks messages as spam even after just once or twice that I marked messages from a certain sender as such.
Since I use Mail.app with POP to fetch gmail, ...
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Why the email i send are detected as spam from Google, Yahoo, MSN etc?
Here are the example headers of an email sent to a Google address.
Delivered-To: *@gmail.com
Received: by 10.14.100.10 with SMTP id y10csp109835eef;
Tue, 8 May 2012 01:44:02 -0700 (PDT)
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Is there a way to add an email address to multiple users' Outlook 2007/2010's Safe Sender List without user input?
We are looking for a method of adding an email address to multiple users' Outlook 2007/2010 (we have a mixed environment) Safe Sender's list without the users having to do anything. Is there a ...
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Junk Mail folder in Hotmail won't sync with Outlook 2011 for Mac Junk mail folder
I just installed Office 2011 on my MacBook and then connected it to my hotmail plus account. It all works fine except the junk mail in the hotmail junk folder does not flow over to Outlook 2011. How ...
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Junk mail criteria used by Exchange and/or Outlook
Is there any documentation, official or unofficial, about how email ends up in the junk folder?
Emails from a domain that I am hosting ends up in my junk folder, and presumably in everybody else's ...
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How do I prevent someone spamming a Linux public folder?
I recently created a Public folder for my user on samba. I have it set up so that anyone can access it on my network(it's just me and a couple other computers). How do I prevent the other computers ...
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Junk mail is recognized, but not filtered
I've already posted this question on the Mozilla Thunderbird forum, and the people who responded were unable to figure out what is happening. I hope I'll have better luck here!
I'm using Thunderbird ...
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How to block spam email using Outlook 2011?
I'm using Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac and I'm getting so much spam I'm not sure how to control it. In the past, I always applied "Block Sender" and "Mark as Junk" to any spam email messages I ...
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In Outlook 2010, does moving messages to the Junk E-Mail folder train Outlook for subsequent spam/junk email detection?
In Outlook 2010, When I receive a piece of spam in my Inbox and then move it into the Junk E-Mail folder (not using the Junk button, just moving it like any other folder move), does this action train ...
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Why do Thunderbird junk mail controls suddenly yield significant amounts of false positives?
I'm using Thunderbird basically since forever and still run the initial instance; usually I updated in a timely manner and am using 11.0.1 17.02 accordingly now.
Approximately four days ago the ...
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Why can't I get an email address to be accepted by Outlook?
In Microsoft Outlook emails from a trusted source continue to be placed in Junk.
The email address is in my contacts
I've selected "always trust emails from..."
I've even created a rule that says ...
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Training Exchange spam filter via OS X Mail.app
My company uses Exchange 2007 for our mail server (via 3rd party hosted service), I use OS X Mail.app on my MacBook Pro.
When viewing my junk folder in the webmail interface, there's a "Not Junk" ...
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Bayesian filter for email importance field?
The problem with importance in email is that it's set by the sender. Which leads some people to just set everything high when sending, ettiquette be damned.
Usually I write a set of mail filters for ...
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How do I apply junk email rules to messages that I've already received in Outlook 2013?
I set up a new account in Outlook 2013 and while Outlook was downloading all of the messages from the server, I remembered that I had forgotten to turn on junk email filtering for the account. Is ...
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Mark sender as non-junk email sender in Outlook 2013
For some reason Outlook 2013 is hellbent on putting all email sent from some email addresses into the Junk Email folder, despite these emails being legitimate and safe. Moving all of these emails to ...
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gmail spam filter in outlook
I'm using Outlook 2013. I have 3 pop3 accounts on my own domains.
I'd like to use Gmail's spam filters to filter all spam coming into the 3 pop3 accounts. So I set them up in Gmail > Accounts & ...
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Server being used as a Zombie/Botnet Mail Server
We are running php websites on a dedicated centos server.
But, we got an email from hosting saying that the server is being used as a mailer for spams.
The process that is sending is being run ...
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Accepting unkown users in Skype, any threat for malware?
Occasionally (as in once per week or so) I receive contact requests, but don't recognize the username. Sometimes this is simply because someone I know uses a username I am not aware of, but just as ...
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Friendly mail going to Junk Filter in Outlook 2010
This is a home problem, nothing to do with work e-mail etc.
E-Mail from long trusted friends and families has suddenly started being marked Spam and going to my Junk e-mail folder. I mark them ...
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Why is Junk Email still delivered to the Inbox?
I have backed up outlook pst files from Outlook 2007 and imported the pst files to Outlook 2010, but Junk Email still delivered to the inbox.
I have set my Junk E-mail Filter level to High and still ...
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Port 'pop-ups' to new tab browser hack/block pop-ups per ad production agency?
I sometimes feel obligated to accept non-malicious popups that don't contain flash. Pop-up ads monetize some of my favorite websites, actually. Unfortunately, regardless of whether or not an ad ...
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Offlineimap — push changes to all folders; only pull from INBOX folder
I would like to be able to set up offlineimap to do the following
Sync Remote/INBOX -> Local
Sync Local/Maildirs/* -> Remote
Possible?
The use case here is:
I download all new mail from my ...
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Outlook 2010: Junk Email Flags and Exchange
I have Outlook 2010 connected to an Exchange server. When I receive new junk mail, I always go to the top ribbon, "Delete" section, select "Junk", then "Block Sender". This moves the message to my ...
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Server-level spam filter with whitelist
I have used an Outlook plug-in for years to filter spam, and it has worked well. The filter that I use is based on whitelisting, which I like. But these days, I am just as likely to use my Android ...
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Outlook 2010 - Ignore option - ignore list
My first thread here :-)
As you know in Outlook 2010 we got new feature "Ignore list". How to use it:
- Right click on the message recieved in inbox an choose "Ignore". After that all future ...
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OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/spool/amavisd'
I am on a CentOS 6.2 system trying to set up a Mail Server.
I am actually following a tutorial from how-to forge.
The step I am at can be found here, which is the second step.
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All Gmail IMAP messages go to Junk folder in Outlook 2007
All mails I receive in Gmail are received fine. When I ask Outlook to send and receive, I receive the mails in question – and they all go to Outlook's Junk mail folder.
They are totally removed from ...
