How do I accept mail from only those in my address book?\nI've put that rule in.  But it doesnt work. I know it's possible.  Parents do it for their young children.  It's so annoying to open your mail and find all this garbage.  When I surf I never use my normal email.  I use the ones on line, like hotmail, yes yahoo, etc.  The free online types have better filters than my server that I pay for.  I use outlook express. HELLLLLLP PULEEEEEEEEEze....thanx!
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It can't be done in Outlook Express.\n\nHowever, it CAN be done in Outlook 2003.  In that program, just go into the Actions Menu, Junk Email, then Junk Email Options.\n\nSelect the "Safe Lists Only" radio button.\nClick on the "Safe Senders" tab and make sure "Also trust email from my contacts" is checked.
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There were catalogs when I was a kid that would offer free stuff from different companies.  Samples, coloring books, little toys, stuff like that.  I know there are sites that offer free stuff, but I think they just hook you so that they can send spam to your inbox.  If you are willing to take the chance...
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What method are you using to read your email?\nIf it's Outlook Express, I think I can suggest some changes you could make to your options that might be what you want.\nEven if it's not Outlook Express, if you tell us what you're using, someone should be able to help you.
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I usually put return to sender and send it back. Thing is, I've lived in this apartment for over 5 years, and I sometimes still get mail for previous tenants. Anymore sometimes I can't help but open it to see what it is. But I don't do that all the time, just sometimes. I can't believe it still comes in...
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Hi Bikerangelmom.\n\nI think that in order to check your email with either email provider that you have to pay a subscription price for a premium service in order to use them from Outlook or Outlook Express.  'Yahoo! Mail users can read their email in Outlook Express by subscribing to the Yahoo! Mail Plus service"\n\nMSN or hotmail is http:  Accessing your Hotmail account with Outlook Express, available for subscribers of MSN Hotmail Plus.\n\nBoth have a mail plus offer.  It used to be free but not anymore.  Sorry...
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You'll need something called POP3 access. I think Yahoo! Mail use to give you this access for free but have since closed it off for only Yahoo! Mail Plus users (requires $20/year fee).\n\nI needed to access Yahoo! Mail within Outlook as well and found a great solution. It's called FreePOPs (see link below). It's a free, tiny program that runs on the computer and allows you access to Yahoo! Mail (as well as many other web-based emails like Hotmail).\n\nThe only negatives I can see with the program are, you have to run the program whenever you check mail with outlook. For me, that means having it run all the time. Second, for some reason it doesn't pull junk mails. I normally wouldn't care about junk mail but if an email mistakenly gets filtered as junk, I'd like to know and be able to move it back to inbox.
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Unfortunatly you can't specify what type of mail that you want or don't want. The Post Office is paid by mailers to deliver whatever they send to every mailbox, be it on the street or a PO Box. Sorry.
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That's the problem with spam, it is almost impossible to stop people from sending it.  You can block the individual sender, but spammers change address frequently, and that probably won't work very long.  You should report the message to Yahoo so they can take action if possible.
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Sounds like peoples' address books are being stored locally on their individual computer, and not on your server. If they were pulling the addresses from the server, as they should, they'd be getting the updated 3-person group.\n\nIn any case, there's a little check box somewhere in Outlook's myriad of settings where you can turn off that auto-suggest function. just can't find it right now, sorry!
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I've had my yahoo address for years. I don't want to change it unless I come across some security issue. Sure, I get a ton of spam, but it all goes in the spam bucket and I don't have to deal with it. I have another email at work, but that's just business stuff. I'm comfortable with yahoo and I'd probably have to have a more pressing reason than spam to change my user name. On the other hand, my daughter, who will soon be applying to medical school, realizes that she will have to establish a new more professional sounding user name than the one she created when she was 13. She'll probably keep the old one for her friends. She has a college email account, but needs a portable one that she can use for  professional matters. So that's our story.
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is it through yahoo, of sbc or aol, or something like that? mine used to be on aol, and i wanted one where i would be the only one using it, because my mom started reading my mail and found out a whole bunch of stuff she wasn't supposed to know, so i made a yahoo one, and i like it much better because she can't get in it, and also, you can check your mail anywhere, not just on your home computer. if you're already on yahoo, just make another one.
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You need to 'train' your junk filter about what is and what isn't junk.\n\nGo through your spam folder and mark the 'Not Spam' as just that. After a few dozen messages your spam filter will start to get better at working out what is and isn't spam coming to you.\n\nThis is, of course, assuming you haven't put a 'bad' rule into your spam filter telling it to send everything to 'spam'.\n\nFinal idea use Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express and thereby get access to its better implemented spam filtering.\nhttp://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/\n\n///\n\n///
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I think there is software out there that you can attach to the message so you get an email when it is opened.  I don't know where to find it or how it works, but I have heard of businesses using it.  Just an idea!
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Your first mistake was giving ANYONE your E mail addy! The best way I have found is to use 2 different e mail accounts, I have my ISP mail account which I only use for close friends and family, I have a second web based account (yahoo) which I use whenever I need to give an e mail. This keeps all my spam in yahoo! If you are using outlook thru your ISP, change your e mail addy and only use it when you want to keep in contact with friends. No matter what you do, you will find spam!
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What are some numbers I could put behind my username to make sure that it isn't taken? Simply "SRIJAN" on yahoo and hotmail and all the other sites are taken -- SPAM THAT S.O.B.!! lol. So... I can't sign up as that. But what are some numbers I could put behind it to make it unique? What some other things I could do?? \n\n\nI've seen people use their age, year of birth, zip code, area code, the current year in two or four digits.... It's a personal preference type of thing, I hope you find one that fits you.
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Check the email filters for whoever you are using as your service.  Could be picking those up as junk mail.
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How about extending the design of the site to allow your clients to access a page of links to books that they have paid for?  This way they would not have to rely on an email to give them access to the downloads?\n\nProviding you have a suitable authentication mechanism in place it should work fine this way.\n\nOn another note, try to make the emails not look spa*mmy:\n (1) Don't add advertising \n (2) if you generate HTML content - ensure that you have a plain text alternate part to the email.\n (3) Check that you have not been blacklisted by anti spam filters - e.g. http://www.surbl.org/