Mary said:
I tried deleting myself from Contacts list and removing myself from
safe list. I can still send myself an email though.
Because, as yet, you have nothing defined (as a rule) in Outlook to
look for you being the sender of e-mails that you receive.
Guess I'll have to wait until more spam comes through as it did today
and then mark it as junk; putting my email address on the blocked
senders list.
Waiting is not required. Do as Diane recommended and define a rule
that looks for your e-mail address as the sender.
It's just kind of irritating that someone can pretend to be sending
mail from my address!
Anyone can pretend to own any e-mail address. So can you (by
specifying whatever you want in the E-mail Address field in the e-mail
account that you define in Outlook). Not until e-mail providers
require the return-path header in e-mails sent by their customers match
the e-mail address for that account will this become less of a problem
-- but then spammers will shy away from any such e-mail providers that
enforce the requirement that the sender use the same e-mail address as
for the account through which they send e-mails.
Can't Microsoft do something about this?
Microsoft has no control over the definition of e-mail protocols --
thank God. Otherwise, we'd have yet another set of proprietary
protocols that forces the use of only Microsoft products.
It's totally up to you whether to use the junk senders list or define
your own rule to look for yourself as the sender. Personally I would
go with a rule.
