Blocking Senders

[aRKay]

I use Entourage 2008 v12.2.2 with OS X 10.6.3 and over the past
few days I have been flooded with unrequested ads from all kinds
of companies. All of the email messages have a box that you can
type in your email address to no longer receive info from the
seller. Each of the messages come from a different user but they
all seem to have the same domain or @amberfiber.com

I just opened the Entourage Junk Mail Protection, clicked on Blocked
Senders and added amberfiber.com.

What does Entourage do when a user blocks a domain?

Hopefully, it will slow down the junk mail

 

[SpiderTech]

When you block a sender, using message . block sender, this will block this particular sender form sending to you. however I have not tested to see if this blocks entire domains.

To check all the senders you have blocked, simply select tools > junk e-mail protection.

Also recommend looking into your mail provider to see if spam control is available to block entire domains. Example Google has PostIni and you can block entire domains as well as users.

 

[aRKay]

I use Entourage 2008 v12.2.2 with OS X 10.6.3 and over the past
few days I have been flooded with unrequested ads from all kinds
of companies. All of the email messages have a box that you can
type in your email address to no longer receive info from the
seller. Each of the messages come from a different user but they
all seem to have the same domain or @amberfiber.com

I just opened the Entourage Junk Mail Protection, clicked on Blocked
Senders and added amberfiber.com.

What does Entourage do when a user blocks a domain?

Hopefully, it will slow down the junk mail

The blocking stopped all mail sent by that domain. The same sender
has now started using different domain names. I have now added

amberfiber.com, amberoptic.com

and I think the spammer is targeting all @att.net addresses

 

[Diane_Ross_MVP]

The blocking stopped all mail sent by that domain. The same sender
has now started using different domain names. I have now added

amberfiber.com, amberoptic.com

and I think the spammer is targeting all @att.net addresses

Get Spam Sieve. It's worth every penny.

Another option is to set up a free gmail account and have it fetch your att
emails. The gmail spam filter is excellent. I have 5 rarely used spam magnet
account that I now forward to gmail and I don't have to download all that
spam now.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>

 

[aRKay]

Get Spam Sieve. It's worth every penny.

Another option is to set up a free gmail account and have it fetch your att
emails. The gmail spam filter is excellent. I have 5 rarely used spam magnet
account that I now forward to gmail and I don't have to download all that
spam now.

I tired gmail and dropped it because it does not support embedded
graphics. I like to use the Mac OS X copy/paste inside mail messages
and gmail (like hotmail) does not support this effort.

No interest in Spam Sieve.... trying to use the Entourage Junk mail
filters but the spammers are getting smart by changing the domain name
on each message

 

[Diane_Ross_MVP]

I tired gmail and dropped it because it does not support embedded
graphics. I like to use the Mac OS X copy/paste inside mail messages
and gmail (like hotmail) does not support this effort.

You use Entourage with the Gmail account and do the images the same way. You
do not have to use the web browser to interface with your gmail account.

 

[Barry_Wainwright_[MVP]]

No interest in Spam Sieve.... trying to use the Entourage Junk mail
filters but the spammers are getting smart by changing the domain name
on each message

The beauty of spam sieve is that _it_ gets smarter as the spammers do.
It is, unlike the Entourage HMF, a learning filter hat needs minimum
tweaking after it has been set up - you just continue to mark messages
a spam or not spam when it gets things wrong, and it will learn as it
goes along. After a few days, you will only be correcting things when
the spammers change their tactics.

The Entourage JMF does not learn a all. When MS push out an updae to
Entourage it wil often include a new JMF filter file, but that means
you are waiting for months between updates to the filter - he spammers
are much more reactive than that.

I do hope that they put a new spam filter into Outlook 2011.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP
(see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for more information)
Like most MVPs, I am responding to your query through the public
newsgroup channel (NNTP). Microsoft is planning to close the public
newsgroups which would effectively disable this channel and may affect
the number of answers that are given. Please post any concerns you have
about these plans in this newsgroup so we can forward them on to
Microsoft.

 

[aRKay]

You use Entourage with the Gmail account and do the images the same way. You
do not have to use the web browser to interface with your gmail account.

I only use the gmail browser when away from home or when using a loaned
computer. I think you are correct that Entourage will send embedded
pictures using the gmail address. I am not sure what happens to them
on receiving end. I ask some PC gmail users and they had no idea what
I was talking about.

The Entourage blocking of senders seems to work. I have not seen a
spam message since blocking both domain names.

Ps: I use MT-Newswatcher for newsgroups rather than Entourage. i just
like the UI better

 

[Barry_Wainwright_[MVP]]

Ps: I use MT-Newswatcher for newsgroups rather than Entourage. i just
like the UI better

Take a look at Unison - it has some nice features too, and is being
updated on a fairly regular basis.

Now the bad news. Microsoft are deprecating the newsgroup heirarchy for
peer to peer support. They will be turning off the microosft hosted
servers for these newsgroups later this year. this does not mean the
newsgroups will die completely - because of the way that NNTP works, it
is almost impossible ot kill off a newsgroup once it has replicated in
thepublic areas (they've been trying to get rid of
microsoft.public.office.mac.entourage (note: not m.p.mac.office.e) for
years), but it does mean that they will not be hosted on the microsoft
servers and that if you want to access them you will probably have to
find them on your ISPs news servers (if they have one).

Following this change, the 'official' venue for peer to peer support
will be the mactopia forums at
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums/

Many of the MVPs (volunteers who answer most of the questions here) are
popposed to this change and find the forums a much less productive
interface for support, but our fight against these changes has been
going on for many years and has finally been lost.



--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP
(see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for more information)
Like most MVPs, I am responding to your query through the public
newsgroup channel (NNTP). Microsoft is planning to close the public
newsgroups which would effectively disable this channel and may affect
the number of answers that are given. Please post any concerns you have
about these plans in this newsgroup so we can forward them on to
Microsoft.