[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[Mike Easter]

N. Miller wrote:
> Michael R N Dolbear

>> Equally OE's Inbox Assistant is not a spam filter but it can filter
>> mail to a junk folder based on various items such as the text found
>> in the subject line. Which text may be inserted by a mailing list
>> application or by a ISP's Spam detector.
>
> What is "Inbox Assistant"? Where do I find it? I have nothing like it
> in MSOE 6, and don't recall seeing anything like it in MSOE 5.5.

I think inbox assistant was a Tools menu item in an old OE -- which IA
just led to the Message Rules function now accessed by Tools/ Message
rules

> http://www.manfield.plus.com/oe.htm
>
> That link tells me to "Run Outlook Express. Select the Inbox
> Assistant from the Tools menu".
>
> I don't have "Inbox Assistant" in my Tools menu. Nor is it mentioned
> in the MSOE Help menu. Is it an add-on, not included in the basic
> install?

OE's message rules function is almost totally incompetent as a spam
filter.  If a person wants to filter spam with OE, they should get a
proxy like SpamPal to 'comb' the message headers and body using DNSBLs
and the regex filter and 'label' the spam with the 'SPAM' in the subject
line, such as is being discussed here, only much better, and then make
an OE message rule to 'divert' the SPAM labeled items into a Junk
folder.

If the Virgin or NTL alleged filter is what is putting in those tags
now, I would disable it (if possible) so that the OP has 'control' over
what is labeled as SPAM rather than it being an unknown value.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin