Outlook and Hotmail mail blocking limits if any
I get maybe 250 junk e-mails a week in three accounts. I have been right clicking, create rule, and add the sites. I wait until I get a second one that matches the first one. Some of the single ones never sent another.
How many TB's of data or domains or ?? will Microsoft let us block?
If there is a limit then over many many years, I may have reached the limit and all the ones I block now or create rules for are not getting stopped.
How many TB's of data or domains or ?? will Microsoft let us block?
If there is a limit then over many many years, I may have reached the limit and all the ones I block now or create rules for are not getting stopped.
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Microsoft will junk the obvious ones as you note and yes it appears endless. There is no reasonable issue for you to write rules to junk mail they do not catch (so blacklist these is what I meant) .
I do not think you will run into limits. I never have and I have had Hotmail longer than Microsoft has owned it
I do not think you will run into limits. I never have and I have had Hotmail longer than Microsoft has owned it
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so blacklist these is what I meant.............
how to blacklist them?
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Om my ISP webmail there is a spam dashboard and we can add friends or add enemies. That mail box gets about 100 junks per week but they do not come to the inbox. They are all collected in the spam dashboard and I go there to look for legitimate ones before deleting them all.
how to blacklist them?
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Om my ISP webmail there is a spam dashboard and we can add friends or add enemies. That mail box gets about 100 junks per week but they do not come to the inbox. They are all collected in the spam dashboard and I go there to look for legitimate ones before deleting them all.
Blacklist = make a rule to send to junk.
I go there to look for legitimate ones before deleting them all. That is the correct approach.
I go there to look for legitimate ones before deleting them all. That is the correct approach.
Do you have exchange server installed ?
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Do you have exchange server installed ?
.............not aware of what that is. So I assume I do not.
.............not aware of what that is. So I assume I do not.
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Most go to the junk folder and they stay there until some are purged after 9 days.
Now I'me getting 8-10 in the inbox. All 3 accounts receive the same messages. One received just now from Optima Tax Relief.
All three accounts got the same message. I have been moving these to the junk folder and when I see 2 or more from the same sender, I then create a rule to have them deleted. They are tricky of course. Two can be from the same person but the subject is different. Or the subject can be the same but the name of the sender different like Optima Taxx Relief. Those are just hypothetical examples. In one e-mail inbox since 6pm Friday there are 12. I easily recognize half of them as repeats and will look for the matching ones in the junk folder and create a rule.
In the junk box if you click on the three ---- there is a "block" option in there. From the inbox you can choose junk, or in the junk box there is a block option, and in the junk or inbox right click and create a rule.
Then there the dozens and the sender is a person's first name only. Those are the ones that have infinite domains like a long series of letters and numbers @ a long series of numbers and letters. The number of domains is endless.
Now I'me getting 8-10 in the inbox. All 3 accounts receive the same messages. One received just now from Optima Tax Relief.
All three accounts got the same message. I have been moving these to the junk folder and when I see 2 or more from the same sender, I then create a rule to have them deleted. They are tricky of course. Two can be from the same person but the subject is different. Or the subject can be the same but the name of the sender different like Optima Taxx Relief. Those are just hypothetical examples. In one e-mail inbox since 6pm Friday there are 12. I easily recognize half of them as repeats and will look for the matching ones in the junk folder and create a rule.
In the junk box if you click on the three ---- there is a "block" option in there. From the inbox you can choose junk, or in the junk box there is a block option, and in the junk or inbox right click and create a rule.
Then there the dozens and the sender is a person's first name only. Those are the ones that have infinite domains like a long series of letters and numbers @ a long series of numbers and letters. The number of domains is endless.
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I try to create rules for those that re-appear more than once. I let the others go since they only came once. The entire spam process seems to take a break on weekends. Very few on weekends compared to week days.
The best filter would be if I could create a rule that includes "one" key word.
I can look into mail.com
The best filter would be if I could create a rule that includes "one" key word.
I can look into mail.com
In the last couple of days I only got one mail that showed up in the inbox. All others went to the Junk folder like they should.
But you can change the Junk settings with Hotmail where for example you can set only mails from your trusted addresses to not end up in the Junk folder, for example. But this of course would require you to check through the junk regularly so you can white-list those addresses you trust.
But you can change the Junk settings with Hotmail where for example you can set only mails from your trusted addresses to not end up in the Junk folder, for example. But this of course would require you to check through the junk regularly so you can white-list those addresses you trust.
I have had Hotmail for years but Mail.com is my primary supplier. Really excellent spam control.
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These spammers have a domains like this:
audueruftbghny64nnsd78@fnv
So the possibilities are endless.
I'm ignoring them and concentrating on the ones that come from say:
Home Security System ????? @ ??????
I right click, create rule, X out the subject since they are starting to change the subject though the sender is the same.
Then select "delete" for all messages that are from Home Security System and sent to me.
The program removes any junks that are 9 days old. If I get a message from Low Rate Credit card but I never get a second one from them, I do not create a rule.
If two from the same sender turn up in the 9 days they get a created rule to delete. However I'm not seeing many in the delete box, so I wondered in Microsoft was really blocking these or there was some limit and I reached it.