Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

TracyJG — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:06:25 GMT

This filter is ABSOLUTELY AWEFUL...it worked until the earlier this year and now the filter keeps randomly resetting itself. I don't even have to close Outlook for it to reset. This is wasting a lot of chargeable time in our firm as many people are having the same issues. Why is it the Microsoft updates undo more than they fix? You guys had better start looking at fixing these issues soon or Corel is going to get a LOT of your business. I personally like Microsoft, but I am not happy with the bugs that seem to come out of EVERY update you guys release.

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

sineal — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:34:30 GMT

I have auto update. I have tried to change my rules and alerts as well as junk email options but it does not keep my preference. I change it to HIGH and when I come back into email I check and it's back to LOW or NO filter. I add rules and addresses that are junk or safe and it seems to ignore these rules as I have good email going to the junk folder and junk coming to the inbox. This just recently started about 3 months ago. Any clues?

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

Karla — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:46:09 GMT

I have Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 Professional. When I initially installed the program, the junk mail filter was working great. Occasionally, a legitimate email would get placed in the junk mail. I believe that is to be expected. Also there was a icon on taskbar labeled Mark as Junk. Then one day, I opened up Outlook and the Icon was gone and now the junk filter no longer works. Only occasionally does an email land in the junk folder, most of all emails go directly to the inbox. Everyday, I have to manually filter through all my emails and "add sender to blocked sender list." Then the next time that same sender sends another email, it lands back into my inbox.

What can I do? I have the filter on High and always add those email addresses to the blocked list. I have double checked my safe list to make sure they are not listed there... I am out of ideas.

Thanks.

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

sailr — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:21:22 GMT

The junk filter in Outlook 2007 insists on identifying anything from ebay.com as junk even though I constantly tell it to add to the safe senders list. I do business on ebay and I miss a lot of ebay bid updates because of this. HOW can I get outlook to stop blocking ebay.com! It's driving me crazy!

custom filters by content

JAS — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:42:39 GMT

Question one: Can a user create a custome filter list in Outlook for the "from" and/or "subject" fields in email? I get repeted email where the Outlook "from" field is CNN Alerts and where the Outlook "subject" field is CNN Alerts: My custom alert. If I could block on the field name I would solve one problem. Question two: Can an Outlook user block email by any given word in the content of the email; i.e. pfizer?

In other words I would like to create my own custom list of "content" words that I want to use to filter junk mail by.

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

Witold Konarewski — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:09:34 GMT

I am using Vista Windows and Outlook. Under Favorite folders in Outlook there are: Inbox, Unread Mail, Sent Items and somehow system created folder "Inbox for one of my e-mail addresses". If I try to delete e-mail in that folder, it crosses out the e-mail but not deleting it. How to delete permanently or send to junk e-mail because 99% is junk mail? Every day I am getting more junk which I cannot delete.

I would appreciate your help.

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

vlmagee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:04:09 GMT

Alessio, I have just spent all day trying to get a mailing through the junk filter. After about 6 hours (I kid you not), I have determined that adding a few characters to the end of the subject of the email will get the message through (not moved to Junk folder). I have literally added " ..." to the end of the subject, and nothing else. (Needless-to-say, I tried a few dozen other possibilities). It seems to me that this is a bug; that a junk filter scan should not return different results based on punctuation. For now, a 10 minute email preparation has taken 6 hours and 10 minutes. Any suggestions for future mailings?

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

Scott — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:45:21 GMT

What Outlook desperately needs is to dump the filter updates and go with a Bayesian filter like Mozilla Thunderbird uses. Thunderbird's filter is 10x better than Outlooks. And when it's sure what is or isn't spam it asks you. After very little training it works like a charm. Outlook's filter is pure crap. I dropped Outlook several years ago. I decided to give Outlook 2007 a last year shot and nothing has changed with regard to the filters. Oh and Microsoft still hasn't figured out message quoting..but that's another matter.

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

Jaik Gladstone — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:33:54 GMT

Hi, I hate to chime in with the same question as everyone else, but I am really desperate for some more information on how/why Outlook Junk E-mail filters items. We have a standard RFC compliant / plain text mail that originates from one of our own web applications which is consistenly filtered into the junk mail folder. Our junk mail settings are defined via Group Policy. We have no 3rd party tool that leverages the Junk Mail folder and IMF is not configured. While an internal solution is readily available - add our domain to the safe senders list using Group Policy I am concerned about our external clients Junk Mail configuration and how we can limit the risk of being blocked by clients outwith our control. I have registered with MSDN blogs, please contact me and I would be happy to share the header/body of the mail in question. Thank you Jaik Gladstone

System Admin

re: Keeping your junk e-mail filter updated

Jessie — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:14 GMT

See, I'm having an opposite problem. Recently our junk email folder has just stopped working, period. The filters haven't been turned off but there's a little red "restricted" circle on top of the folder and I don't know how to get rid of it. Now all mail is going into the inbox and we're getting over 100 spam messages daily. We're a business and it's wasting a lot of time sorting through all the junk mail to find actual costumer messages.