I'm getting on average 100-150 Spam/Junk e-mails to my work inbox every day. I have my Outlook (Office 365) junk mail settings to high. It does a great job of marking legitimate e-mails I'm getting as spam , but the actual spam, no matter how much I block a particular e-mail or extension, I still get it over and over many times in a day. Can anyone suggest an Outlook spam/junk mail blocker as an add-on to help eliminate this junk mail? It's driving me

Help!

 

My solution a few years ago was to move my domain's mail hosting to google.

 

You have a few options, either move to google or yahoo business emails, or take a few minutes and setup filters in your Outlook program. See which type of spam is most common and adjust it accordingly, manually, don't set spam filter to high. My Outlook does a great job filtering crap daily, you just need to spend time with it a little

 

How do you set up filters? I don't see it as an option.... Only to add email address to safe or blocked sender lists.

 

This made a pretty huge improvement for me:

 

Are they all about "Hair Loss" or some other keywords?

Click on Rules>Create New Rule

Then make one that sends any message with "Hair Loss" in the subject line (or body, etc) to the Junk folder.

Repeat for each "type" (viagra, sex, vacation, etc...)



Scroll halfway down to Customizing a Message Filter
hdc.tamu.edu/Connecting/Email/Spam/Microsoft_Outlook_Spam_Filter.php

 

My buddies sell Spamsoap - www.spamsoap.com and like it.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions so far...I will try it tomorrow!

 

What about "Blocked Encoding List"? Should I select all to block as well?

 

I have nothing checked for that and haven't had much spam with weird encoding. You can handle that on an as-needed basis.

 

Thanks again, everyone....I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention on Friday because I was pretty busy, but it did seem like Anachostic's idea made a difference. I'll know for sure when I'm in the office on Monday to see how much my inbox is cluttered, and at that point will play around with the rules, as Stogie suggested.

 

Answer all those - "Dear sir, I am a displaced member of the royal family. I need your help to recover US$2,000,000. Please send me your bank account #" messages and you can get RICH!"













Note: To anyone who doesn't know what red text means, I'm not being serious.

 

It looks like it worked for now!

I came in to work to 27 E-mails in my inbox, all legitimate, and 110 in my junk mail. 4 legit e-mails went into junk though, and I just specified it's "not junk" and moved it back to my inbox, so hopefully it doesn't get caught in there again.

 

Hey guys, looks like I'm having this issue more than ever. Since I learned how to block or create rules, which I use on a daily basis, it seems like it makes absolutely no difference anymore. I can create a rule to redirect e-mail that is sent from or has a subject field with certain text into my junk or deleted mail, and i'll get the same e-mail 10 minutes later in my in-box. I can block the e-mail, and minutes later get the same email back in my inbox. This is seriously ridiculous already. Changing e-mail hosting isn't an option for me at the moment...

Can anyone recommend a program add-on that I can add to Outlook to help me with this? I can't take this anymore!

 

check to see if an update broke or disabled your filters

 

Do you have a rule that has a "and stop processing more rules" clause that's getting processed? Can you reorder your rules so junk processing happens first?

 

Honestly, using Google for business mail has been the best $60 a year I have spent in a long time...

 

And what's even more unusual, over the weekend and yesterday, it was surprisingly quiet. I mean I got some spam, but maybe 20% of what I would get on a daily basis. Today was like an assault! Put it this way, in the last 10 days, I deleted over 500 spam e-mails.... Crazy!

At some point I was just creating a rule for each one to redirect it to "Deleted Mail" or to "Junk Mail", but I realized after creating the same rule 10 times for the same e-mail, I went back to just specifying to block the sender, but that doesn't seem to be working either.

 

Still works great for me.

 

You have to do content based rules. Anything with viagra, money order, etc. They change the sending addresses to new ones all the time so blocking a sender is futile.

 

I spoke to my friend who hosts my website and e-mail. He said shifting my e-mail to Google is an option, but also said to try a plugin first. I downloaded a free (full version) 10 day trial version of Spam Fighter, let's see how that works and then I can either purchase a license for $29 or consider something else. I hope this works........

 

Quick update - Spam fighter helped to a point...it was picking up 50% of the spam into it's own spam folder, but I was still getting plenty in my inbox. My brother suggested a free add-on called SpamReader, which I have running too, and so far so good, it's picked up every single spam email. I'm still getting a shitload of spam e-mails, but every single one is getting caught and going into the spam folder. No more spam in my inbox...for now.