How To Reject Blocked Sender

[Kahill1918]

I have placed a spammer on the blocked sender list but I still get her e-mail
in the junk mailbox. Her e-mails are very very long and contain many dozens
of links which scare me. I do not want to see her e-mail anywhere in any of
my mailboxes. I use Outlook 2007 and Vista.

I also clicked "Permanently delete sender instead of placing in junk
mailbox" but still get her e-mail (she is an Avon representative if that
helps)

Thanks.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Just periodically empty your junk e-mail list. The junk mail folder is
exactly where you want those messages to go. Don't worry about the links,
Outlook won't let you click them from the Junk Mail folder.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Rather than use blocked sender, make a rule to permanently delete those
messages. Outlook will need to download the message before deleting it - it
just how it (and most clients) work. If you ISP supports rules, configure a
rule on the server to delete it before Outlook gets it.

FWIW, links in messages aren't dangerous on their own, especially in the
Junk mail folder - they do nothing until you click them and you can't click
them in the junk folder.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[Allen72653]

I use a third party software named Mailwasher and check my email each time
with it. If they are okay I let them download to Outlook. If not I can delete
them, bounce them so it appears I do not exist and also blacklist the person.
It has worked for me for many years.

 

[Gordon]

I have placed a spammer on the blocked sender list but I still get her
e-mail
in the junk mailbox. Her e-mails are very very long and contain many
dozens
of links which scare me. I do not want to see her e-mail anywhere in any
of
my mailboxes. I use Outlook 2007 and Vista.

I also clicked "Permanently delete sender instead of placing in junk
mailbox" but still get her e-mail (she is an Avon representative if that
helps)

Thanks.

If this person really IS an Avon rep, send a polite email telling them to
take you off their list. If they don't, report them to Avon.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

....or configure AutoArchive to regularly delete the messages in Junk E-mail
for you.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.html
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon

 

[N. Miller]

I use a third party software named Mailwasher and check my email each time
with it. If they are okay I let them download to Outlook. If not I can delete
them, bounce them so it appears I do not exist and also blacklist the person.
It has worked for me for many years.

Please, oh pleas! ***DO NOT*** use MailWasher to send "bounces"!!! They are
a violation of your provider's TOS because they impersonate your provider's
postmaster daemon. They are easily detected as such, and I will report you
to your provider for abuse, if I receive them. The phony bounce feature of
MailWasher is its worst feature, and the reason I can't recommend MW as a
spam filter.

I've had my long-standing Yahoo! Mail email address forged as a sender once,
and received thousands of misdirected bounces, to the point of flooding my
Inbox. That at a time when Yahoo! Mail had a limited mailbox size; I was
unable to receive legitimate email to that account until I filtered the
bounces; basically, I was doing the bouncer's work for them. I've also seen
my rented hobby domain forged. I've received those phony MailWasher bounces,
and reported the senders of the bounces for abuse.

Use MailWasher if you must, but please, disable that abominable bounce
feature. Pretend it does not exist. Using it only makes you an accomplice to
the spammer in his abuse.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I have placed a spammer on the blocked sender list but I still get her e-mail
in the junk mailbox. Her e-mails are very very long and contain many dozens
of links which scare me. I do not want to see her e-mail anywhere in any of
my mailboxes. I use Outlook 2007 and Vista.

I also clicked "Permanently delete sender instead of placing in junk
mailbox" but still get her e-mail (she is an Avon representative if that
helps)

Why don't you ask her to drop your address from her mailing list? Why not
contact the Avon Corporation? I'm sure they'd take a dim view of their
representatives spamming.