Mar 24, '03 09:35:00AM • Contributed by: Mikey-San
Over the years, I've put together a very concise, tuned list of critera to go from seeing 100% of my spam in my inbox to seeing about 5% of it or less. It consists of three rules: one to save the stuff you want from Deleted Items, one to lay burnination to the bad stuff you don't want, and one to defeat a nasty trick a lot of spammers use. I went ahead and typed them up and posted them for public consumption.
The first rule is the only complex one, because it involves adding a header to e-mail you send. This is explained in the document -- it's a way to catch spam sent to you with your e-mail address in the from field, but let your e-mail address remain in your address book, as Entourage likes it. The second rule is very, very basic, and is meant to be augmented to suit needs as they pop up. The third is also minimalist, but extremely accurate. It's essential that you make the rules in order (or arrange them that way afterwards), otherwise you'll flag your mother's yahoo.com mail as spam, and that'll make her very angry at subsequent holiday dinners.
Nothing really special, but I thought it might make some Entourage users' (and other clients, really--the rules are good for any client that supports them, I suppose) lives a bit easier. Remember that they don't delete anything; they just recolor/tag them as spam and send them to Deleted Items without notifying you.
