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Can you expand my B locked message Folder? I get 30 to 50 Spams a day. I
down loaded SpamBully, but it doesn't seem to do a bit of good.

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What do you mean by expand your Blocked Message folder? Blocked Senders?
Expand how?

Try message rules.

How to set up OE Message Rules:
http://www.oeupdates.com/outlook-exp...lock-spam.html

http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Email/O...tlook_Express/

http://www.jackieswebworks.com/outlo...ss%20notes.htm

Some Message Rule Ideas:
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm

Some tips:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm

Controlling Junk Mail in Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/.../junkmail.mspx

Message Rules not working?:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"rkw15444" wrote in message
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Can you expand my B locked message Folder? I get 30 to 50 Spams a day. I
down loaded SpamBully, but it doesn't seem to do a bit of good.

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rkw15444 wrote:

Can you expand my B locked message Folder? I get 30 to 50 Spams a day. I
down loaded SpamBully, but it doesn't seem to do a bit of good.

This is Usenet, a peer community of users. This is not a venue for free
support from Microsoft. We users can do NOTHING regarding your e-mail
account or your software setup. You will have to do that yourself.

OE has a Junk folder. Did you create another folder called Blocked
[Messages]? Or did SpamBully? If SpamBully is modifying your OE setup
then you will have to ask them how to fix whatever is the problem.

Since SpamBully relies only on Bayesian filtering, and since Bayesian
filtering has to learn good versus bad e-mails based on your decisions,
and depending on the level of e-mail traffic that it gets to inspect to
update its database, it could be many days if not weeks before that
Bayesian filter is effective. Microsoft has their monthly update to add
a pre-defined database to its Bayes-like filter in Outlook 2003+. Does
SpamBully provide you with a baseline database to help you start
filtering out spam right away, or do they expect you to build that
database from scratch (which I prefer since it reflects *my* history of
good and bad e-mails, not some composite profile decided by someone
else).

They say they support blacklists. Presumably they mean public DNSBLs
(DNS blocklists), like SpamHaus and SpamCop. Do they let you choose
which DNSBLs to use, or are you stuck with whatever unidentified
blacklist providers they happened to choose? The blacklists help
identify known spam sources while your Bayesian filter catches up.

SpamBully is a non-professional solution. Why? Because it panders to
ignorant consumers that think fake bounces and challenges are a proper
means of eliminating spam. Both can end up getting you blacklisted
because of your misdirected backscatter or "challenge spam" afflicted
onto innocents.

I suspect you simply do not have SpamBully properly configured. Go ask
in their forum on how to configure and use their program.