SPAM with ENTOURAGE

[jov33]

I'm receiving every day 15 SPAM's email from one of my account. I use
to delete them every day, but once I create a Rule in Entourage to
delete those SPAM at the beginning (sending them to Delete Files
folder), "voila", at the other day appear more than double SPAM's
mails. I have to add every day new criteria for the SPAM rule.

I want to know if there is a security violation of Entourage, because I
cannot understand why I'm receiving more than 100% of SPAM email every
time I create a new criteria for filtering

 

[Diane Ross]

I'm receiving every day 15 SPAM's email from one of my account. I use
to delete them every day, but once I create a Rule in Entourage to
delete those SPAM at the beginning (sending them to Delete Files
folder), "voila", at the other day appear more than double SPAM's
mails. I have to add every day new criteria for the SPAM rule.

I want to know if there is a security violation of Entourage, because I
cannot understand why I'm receiving more than 100% of SPAM email every
time I create a new criteria for filtering

Are you using the Junk Mail Filter? I find that using the Junk Mail Filter
gets 99% of my mail. Some users also find that SpamSieve is an excellent
addition to Entourage. <http://c-command.com/spamsieve/>

For help using the Junk Mail Filter see:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/junk/index.html>

If you continue to have problems, you need to include more information.

OS version
Entourage version
Example of your rule

The more specifics you include the easier it is to help find a solution.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
resources.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

 

[William Smith]

I'm receiving every day 15 SPAM's email from one of my account. I use
to delete them every day, but once I create a Rule in Entourage to
delete those SPAM at the beginning (sending them to Delete Files
folder), "voila", at the other day appear more than double SPAM's
mails. I have to add every day new criteria for the SPAM rule.

I want to know if there is a security violation of Entourage, because I
cannot understand why I'm receiving more than 100% of SPAM email every
time I create a new criteria for filtering

I often point folks to one of my favorite reads about how to block spam.
The first step is understanding how email addresses are acquired, which
this study shows. It's a couple of years old but still fascinating.

<http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml>

An overwhelming majority of email addresses were found to be harvested
from newsgroup postings back then and I would bet they still are today.
(If you're posting with your legitimate Gmail account then you're just
asking for loads of spam.)

bill

 

[jov33]

Hi Diane:

Thanks for your help.

I´m using Junk email now instead of the rule, with better results.

Still is not clear for me why once a rule apply to messages (sending
them to Delete folder) appear a lot the next day, like something
understand the Rule that I´m using, and then messages change to arrive
in any way. The rule is very simple, checking the subjet and message
specific words. My OS is 10.3 Panther (last release), and the
Entourage is the 2004 version.

Regards


Jov33


Diane Ross ha escrito:

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

Spam senders do continually change the format and sender details of their
messages specifically in order to avoid client-based rules such as you are
cretaing.

Because such rules are always reactive, and the spam senders are continually
adapting, you are fighting a losing battle trying to do it this way.

I too have had good success with Entourage's JMF, but you need to understand
how it works - messages are first checked against the Mailing list Manager,
so any mail handled by the MLM will never be classified as spam. Secondly,
they are checked against the Address Book, so as long as you keep your
address book up to date with people who are likely to send you mail, you
will hugely reduce your 'false positives' (good mail marked as spam).

Next, the JMF runs - the JMF is hard-wired to identify spam from common
attributes, based on the huge amount of spam that passes through the
hotmail, MSN & Microsoft servers. On the 'high' setting for the JMF I find
that it catches most junk, approx 2-3% sneaks through as false negatives -
low enough that I don't mind handling it manually.

After the JMF runs, your rules run, so that any particular messages that may
have been marked as junk by the JMF can be 'unjunked' automatically - again,
reducing the false positives.