OutLook Express 6 spam problem

[NastyNative]

My Work email is being spammed every day and its very frustrating to remove about 25 junk emails every day. Every time i see a junk mail i add it to my blocked emails it but im getting them from different addresses daily. What can i do to stop the madness.


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i dont know if this is the correct category. Thanks

[quartet-man]

That's the million dollar question. Spam protection, address blocking and such only do so much. Short of the above, being careful who you give the address to and using disposable
email addresses that are forwarded to your address, there isn't really anything I know of you can do. It is annoying, for sure, but the cost of having an email address it seems.

I did think of another thing, but it will only do so much. If there are key words that show up in the emails, you can set up a filter to move those to a separate folder or to automatically delete them in your message rules in Outlook express.
However, it should be words that would not be in any legititimateemail you would be getting, or you should have them sent to another folder and manually delete from there.

Some programs also have approved sender lists, but you would have to know who all would be sending you emails and block everyone else, which of course might block someone who needs to email you from getting through.

[glc]

If your work e-mail is on a hosted domain, contact your host about server side spam filtering.