Stop Entourage from SPAMMING (k)

[W. Kirk Lutz]

It seems that my Entourage will download SPAM emails and something in
them causes Entourage to then send from my computer as if they were me.

How can I prevent this? I didn't see anything in the Preferences.

I'm on a Dual 2Ghz G5 with 2GB of RAM. Running Mac OS 10.3.5

-Kirk

 

[Adam Bailey]

It seems that my Entourage will download SPAM emails and something in
them causes Entourage to then send from my computer as if they were me.

How can I prevent this? I didn't see anything in the Preferences.

No, Entourage is not sending out spam. But other people are, with your
return address. There's nothing you can do about it.

 

[W. Kirk Lutz]

Entourage IS sending out SPAM. Because I often catch it in my outbox and
highlight it and hit delete.

-Kirk

 

[BB]

Check your Rules under the Tools menu. It sounds like you have a rule set up
to do something with your SPAM mails.

-Bo

 

[W. Kirk Lutz]

These are emails that make it through my ISP SPAM filter and are seen as
SPAM by Entourage(so they are greyed out).

The only SPAM rule I have is that if the subject has [SPAM] in it to
delete. My ISP labels SPAMs this way.

They are somehow being sent through Entourage from something within the
email.

-Kirk

 

[W. Kirk Lutz]

Anyobdy else experienced this? You receive a SPAM email you haven't
opened and it has been greyed out as spam, but has also managed to
forward itself to everyone in your address book?

-Kirk

These are emails that make it through my ISP SPAM filter and are seen as
SPAM by Entourage(so they are greyed out).

The only SPAM rule I have is that if the subject has [SPAM] in it to
delete. My ISP labels SPAMs this way.

They are somehow being sent through Entourage from something within the
email.

-Kirk

Check your Rules under the Tools menu. It sounds like you have a rule
set up
to do something with your SPAM mails.

-Bo

 

[Phyber Quest]

No, Entourage is not sending out spam. But other people are, with your
return address. There's nothing you can do about it.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

No, Entourage is not sending out spam. But other people are, with your
return address. There's nothing you can do about it.

When Phyber says "other people are" s/he doesn't mean they're doing it on
purpose. This is a Windows virus - it's how most of them work now. Someone
with a susceptible email client on Windows (often Outlook or Outlook Express
there) is infected by a virus which sends these messages to everyone in
their address book, but pretends to be coming from one of those contacts in
the address book who may not even have an infectable computer or email
client - like you.

Entourage can't be infected this way - nor any Mac email client at this
point. Most people on Windows are quite used to these by now - it happens to
everyone - and their anti-virus software will frequently bounce back known
viruses to the purported sender, but usually include some language like
"purporting to come from your email address". Sometimes your own ISP (if
it's good) will intercept these bounces and add a bit more language and a
specific formatting of the subject, such as "***VIRUS*** (W32/Netsky-B)
INTERCEPTED". When this is the case you can write a rule to send these
messages to the Junk folder if you don't want to see them. As Phyber says,
there's nothing you can do about any of this.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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