Annoying spams
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Somehow, my work e-mail address is being abused by some bad guys out there. Now everyday, I receive over 20 spams, mostly commercial. The company server identifies them as spams, but they couldn't (or they don't want to) do anything to employees mails. Every morning, my first task is to delete these spams manually. Marking them as junks does not stop them, as the sender addresses are machine generated and thus different every time. Is it possible to write some tool to filter out those spams automatically, or how to get rid of them otherwise? Any comments are welcome.
Best, Jun
Install the SpamBayes Outlook plugin. It's awesome, and learns to better identify spam over time.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) -
Somehow, my work e-mail address is being abused by some bad guys out there. Now everyday, I receive over 20 spams, mostly commercial. The company server identifies them as spams, but they couldn't (or they don't want to) do anything to employees mails. Every morning, my first task is to delete these spams manually. Marking them as junks does not stop them, as the sender addresses are machine generated and thus different every time. Is it possible to write some tool to filter out those spams automatically, or how to get rid of them otherwise? Any comments are welcome.
Best, Jun
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Somehow, my work e-mail address is being abused by some bad guys out there. Now everyday, I receive over 20 spams, mostly commercial. The company server identifies them as spams, but they couldn't (or they don't want to) do anything to employees mails. Every morning, my first task is to delete these spams manually. Marking them as junks does not stop them, as the sender addresses are machine generated and thus different every time. Is it possible to write some tool to filter out those spams automatically, or how to get rid of them otherwise? Any comments are welcome.
Best, Jun
Jun Du wrote:
how to get rid of them otherwise
There is a very good way, but it will cost you 20,000$ and the possible need to migrate to another country for some time. :rolleyes: Seriously, are you using Outlook ? you could use a macro, or even simply a "incoming post rule" to get rid of these mails if they have something in commons (contain some keywords, are sent out night, etc..)
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Somehow, my work e-mail address is being abused by some bad guys out there. Now everyday, I receive over 20 spams, mostly commercial. The company server identifies them as spams, but they couldn't (or they don't want to) do anything to employees mails. Every morning, my first task is to delete these spams manually. Marking them as junks does not stop them, as the sender addresses are machine generated and thus different every time. Is it possible to write some tool to filter out those spams automatically, or how to get rid of them otherwise? Any comments are welcome.
Best, Jun
It should be disgusting. Few weeks before my colleagues used to get a lot of spams from "me". Yes that ******* spams used my id to fill in the "from" field. The n/w admin people did something and now it's stopped now. Luckily my inbox is never filled with any spams :->
--[:jig:]-- [My Current Status]
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Install the SpamBayes Outlook plugin. It's awesome, and learns to better identify spam over time.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) -
It sounds like the type of tools I'm looking for. Do you know if it supports "Web Access"? Currently, I'm working outside the company and access the work e-mail via "MS Outlook Web Access". Thanks.
Best, Jun
Jun Du wrote:
It sounds like the type of tools I'm looking for. Do you know if it supports "Web Access"? Currently, I'm working outside the company and access the work e-mail via "MS Outlook Web Access". Thanks.
It's a client-side Outlook plugin - but if you leave your work machine on with Outlook (and thus SpamBayes) running, when you use web-mail, you'll find that the spam has been filtered properly.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) -
Jun Du wrote:
It sounds like the type of tools I'm looking for. Do you know if it supports "Web Access"? Currently, I'm working outside the company and access the work e-mail via "MS Outlook Web Access". Thanks.
It's a client-side Outlook plugin - but if you leave your work machine on with Outlook (and thus SpamBayes) running, when you use web-mail, you'll find that the spam has been filtered properly.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) -
For the time being, I don't have a machine running in the company. I guess I have to bear with spams. But I'll install SpamBayes as soon as I get back. Thanks for your help, Nish.
Best, Jun
Jun Du wrote:
For the time being, I don't have a machine running in the company. I guess I have to bear with spams. But I'll install SpamBayes as soon as I get back.
Ah okay - then it looks as if you'd need a server side spam filter at the mail server end.
Jun Du wrote:
Thanks for your help, Nish.
You are welcome, Jun.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) -
Jun Du wrote:
For the time being, I don't have a machine running in the company. I guess I have to bear with spams. But I'll install SpamBayes as soon as I get back.
Ah okay - then it looks as if you'd need a server side spam filter at the mail server end.
Jun Du wrote:
Thanks for your help, Nish.
You are welcome, Jun.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) -
It should be disgusting. Few weeks before my colleagues used to get a lot of spams from "me". Yes that ******* spams used my id to fill in the "from" field. The n/w admin people did something and now it's stopped now. Luckily my inbox is never filled with any spams :->
--[:jig:]-- [My Current Status]
If it works it can't be the worst piece of code.
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