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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Installation and Configuration / August 2006Junk Mail - Allow multiple emails to be hilighted and marked as j.
With the ever increasing volume of spam and junk mail, it would be most helpful if outlook would allow the user to highlight multiple email messages and mark each of them as junk mail and send them to the blocked senders list. It currently takes a signficant amount of time to select them individually and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of time. More then just adding them to junk mail, which senders have gotten around by changing the address a little each time, I want to forward each mail individually. > With the ever increasing volume of spam and junk mail, it would be most > helpful if outlook would allow the user to highlight multiple email messages [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of > time. What you'd like to do is forward the email back to the sender! If they spam a million messages, hit their servers with a million of their own forwarded messages or automated replies! Dreamin' on . . . > More then just adding them to junk mail, which senders have gotten around by > changing the address a little each time, I want to forward each mail [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of > > time. And what about all the innocent bystanders' whose addresses have been harvested by spammers and then used to spoof the From addresses in junk messages? You're proposing to forward messages back to them? How does that help anyone?  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > What you'd like to do is forward the email back to the sender! If they spam > a million messages, hit their servers with a million of their own forwarded [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> > and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of >> > time. Sue, I was humoring everyone, no need to take it seriously! What you say is obviously true, but it sure would be the ultimate form of poetic justice if anyone ever found a way to do this without hurting other innocent bystanders! > What you'd like to do is forward the email back to the sender! Since in the vast majority of cases the sender is bogus or belongs to an innocent victim whose address has hijacked, how would propose to do that and how would it help? SignatureBrian Tillman Humor the public a little, we did not mean to suggest that people actually try to do this! That should have been clear from the last phrase. However, it would be the ultimate form of poetic justice if this could be accomplished without hurting innocent parties! Unfortunately a lot of people are very serious about wanting to do just that. SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Humor the public a little, we did not mean to suggest that people actually > try to do this! That should have been clear from the last phrase. > However, > it would be the ultimate form of poetic justice if this could be > accomplished > without hurting innocent parties! > Humor the public a little, we did not mean to suggest that people > actually try to do this! That should have been clear from the last > phrase. However, it would be the ultimate form of poetic justice if > this could be accomplished without hurting innocent parties! Actually, some people have tried what you propose, trying denial of service attacks on the spammer's sending systems. That usually results in an even more overwhelming attach from the spammer. I've read news reports of people who have had to switch ISPs because of the viciousness of the retaliation from the spammer. SignatureBrian Tillman Are you using Outlook 2003? With it set on high, you should not get a lot of spam past the filters... also, adding a large number of addresses that are only used on one message will max out the list without improving spam filtering. http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2004/up040930.htm#safe SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide) Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/ > With the ever increasing volume of spam and junk mail, it would be most > helpful if outlook would allow the user to highlight multiple email [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of > time. Diane, Thank you for your response. Yes, I'm using Outlook 2003 and have my spam settings at Medium. I was concerned that too many good mails would end up in the junk folder. However, I was unaware of the 2000 name limit. I'll set my filter to high and see what happens. Thanks again. Steve > Are you using Outlook 2003? With it set on high, you should not get a lot of > spam past the filters... also, adding a large number of addresses that are [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of > > time. Check the folder daily for a couple of weeks, then less often should be ok. I had to add about 20 names/domains (mostly for newsletters or ads from places like best buy) to my Safe list as a result but that is so much easier than adding spammers to a block list. SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide) Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/ > Diane, > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > of >> > time. |
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