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Outlook Express Tips for Filtering, Dealing with and Preventing Spam

If you have an email address, you also have spam — and you probably need a spam filter. Outlook Express can work with some of the best spam filtering tools. Here's how to set that up, and a few other tricks to avoid junk mail in Outlook Express.
  1. Mail Filtering
  2. Outlook Express Spamfilters

How to Configure Outlook Express to Work with POPFile

Do you want your email in Outlook Express to be filtered through a supreme anti-spam tool? Here's how to set up Outlook Express to work with POPFile.

Auto-File Mail and Spam in Outlook Express with POPFile

With the help of POPFile as a personal assistant, you can have Outlook Express filter away spam and file other incoming mail automatically.

How to Report Spam using Outlook Express and SpamCop

Make spammers pay for their junk mail by reporting them to their ISPs. Here's how to do that comfortably using SpamCop and Outlook Express.

How to Block a Sender in Outlook Express

Have Outlook Express send messages from certain senders to the trash automatically.

Block Messages from a Domain in Outlook Express

Put a ban on whole domains in Outlook Express and have it delete mail from senders belonging to that domain (everybody with an @about.com email address, for example) automatically.

Don't Download all Hotmail Junk Mail in Outlook Express

Prevent Outlook Express from downloading all the messages in your Hotmail "Junk Mail" folder automatically. Make it just synchronize the headers instead.

How to Remove All Blocked Senders at Once in Outlook Express

Get rid of the list of email senders you wanted to get rid of once and start again with an empty list of blocked senders in Outlook Express.

How to Remove an Address from Blocked Senders in Outlook Express

Make Outlook Express receive mail from certain senders again.

Filter Mail With an Empty From: or To: Line in Outlook Express

Tell Outlook Express what to do with messages that have no sender or no recipient (like sending it straight to the "Deleted Items", for example).

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