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Blocking Spam from International Senders in Windows Vista Mail

May 6, 2021
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I don’t personally use the Windows Mail client that comes with Windows Vista, but while I was researching how to use it to access my Gmail locally, I discovered a nice option in the Junk Email Options pane. Blocking Spam from International Senders

A large amount of the spam that I get consists of mail coming from all sorts of international domains. Since I don’t have many close friends that live in other countries, I really don’t need to see any email from most of those domains, at least not on my personal accounts. Blocking Spam from International Senders

To block all of that spam mail from hitting your inbox, open Windows Mail and go to the Tools \ Junk Mail Options item. Click the International tab, and you should see this screen:

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There are two seperate ways that you can block international spam: First, you can block the domains themselves by selecting them here. If you do the Select All option, you should be warned that .US is also in that list.

Blocking Spam from International Senders

You can also choose to block message encodings. I blocked all of the asian message encodings, because I definitely can’t read those languages, and about 1/10th of the spam I get these days is encoded in one of those types. Again, be careful about doing the Select All option or you will end up blocking all email from everybody.

Blocking Spam from International Senders

Thwarting Spam with Windows Mail’s Junk Filter

Spamunsolicited commercial messageshas become a plague upon the earth. Unless you’ve done a masterful job at keeping your address secret, you probably receive at least a few spam emails every day, and it’s more likely that you receive a few dozen. The bad news is that most experts agree that it’s only going to get worse. And why not? Spam is one of the few advertising media for which the costs are substantially borne by the users, not the advertisers.

The best way to avoid spam is to not get on a spammer’s list of addresses in the first place. That’s hard to do these days, but there are some steps you can take:

  • Never use your actual email address in a newsgroup account. The most common method that spammers use to gather addresses is to harvest them from newsgroup posts. One common tactic you can use is to alter your email address by adding text that invalidates the address but is still obvious for other people to figure out:

     

    user@myisp.remove_this_to_email_me.com

     

  • When you sign up for something online, use a fake address, if possible. If you need or want to receive email from the company and so must use your real address, make sure you deactivate any options that ask if you want to receive promotional offers. Alternatively, enter the address from an easily disposable free web-based account (such as a Hotmail account) so that any spam you receive will go there instead of to your main address. If your free email account gets too overrun with junk mail, remove it and create a new one. (You can also do this through your ISP if it allows you to create multiple email accounts.)

  • Never open suspected spam messages because doing so can sometimes notify the spammer that you’ve opened the message, thus confirming that your address is legit. For the same reason, you should never display a spam message in the Windows Mail Preview pane. Shut off the Reading pane (select View, Layout, deactivate Show Preview Pane, and click OK) before selecting any spam messages that you want to delete.

  • NeverI repeat, neverrespond to spam, even to an address within the spam that claims to be a “removal” address. By responding to the spam, all you’re doing is proving that your address is legitimate, so you’ll just end up getting more spam.

If you do get spam despite these precautions, the good news is that Windows Mail comes with a Junk Email feature that can help you cope. Junk Email is a spam filter, which means that it examines each incoming message and applies sophisticated tests to determine whether the message is spam. If the tests determine that the message is probably spam, the email is exiled to a separate Junk E-mail folder. The Windows Mail spam filter is based on the much-admired filter that comes with Outlook 2003, which was voted best spam filter by Consumer Reports in September 2005. It’s not perfect (no spam filter is), but with a bit of fine-tuning as described in the next few sections, it can be a very useful antispam weapon.

Setting the Junk Email Protection Level

Filtering spam is always a trade-off between protection and convenience. That is, the stronger the protection you use, the less convenient the filter becomes, and vice versa. This inverse relationship is caused by a filter phenomenon called the false positive. This is a legitimate message that the filter has pegged as spam and so (in Windows Mail’s case) moved the message to the Junk E-mail folder. The stronger the protection level, the more likely it is that false positives will occur, so the more time you must spend checking the Junk E-mail folder for legitimate messages that need to be rescued. Fortunately, Windows Mail gives you several Junk Email levels to choose from so you can choose a level that gives the blend of protection and convenience that suits you.

To set the Junk Email level, select Tools, Junk E-mail Options. Windows Mail displays the Junk E-mail Options dialog box. The Options tab, shown in Figure 6.25, gives you four options for the Junk Email protection level:

  • No Automatic Filtering This option turns off the Junk Email filter. However, Windows Mail still moves messages from blocked senders to the Junk E-mail folder (see “Blocking Senders,” later in this chapter.) Choose this option only if you use a third-party spam filter or if you handle spam using your own message rules.

  • Low This is the default protection level, and it’s designed to move only messages with obvious spam content to the Junk E-mail folder. This is a good level to start withparticularly if you get only a few spams a daybecause it catches most spam and has only a minimal risk of false positives.

  • High This level handles spam aggressively and so only rarely misses a junk message. On the downside, the High level also catches the occasional legitimate message in its nets, so you need to check the Junk E-mail folder regularly to look for false positives. Use this level if you get a lot of spama few dozen messages or more each day.

     

    Note

    If you get a false positive in your Junk E-mail folder, click the message and then select Message, Junk E-mail, Mark as Not Junk.

     

  • Safe Lists Only This level treats all incoming messages as spam, except for those messages that come from people or domains in your Safe Senders list (see “Specifying Safe Senders,” later in this chapter) or that are sent to addresses in your Safe Recipients list. Use this level if your spam problem is out of control (a hundred or more spams each day) and if most of your nonspam email comes from people you know or from mailing lists you subscribe to.

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