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Email Messages Mistakenly Labeled Spam

Posted September 15, 2009 - 5:05pm by schwarz

Sometimes valid email messages mistakenly get marked as "spam" and get put into Outlooks's spam folder instead of the Inbox.

When this happens to you — and the subject line of the message has {Spam?} added — send an email message to Jody Cleveland cleveland [at] winnefox [dot] org with the email address of the person you'd like him to whitelist.

But if you find messages mistakenly appearing in Outlook 2007's Junk E-mail folder, you can take care of this yourself; here's info on how to adjust Outlook 2007's junk mail settings for your account. 

Important: You should periodically review messages in your Spam and Junk E-mail folders to make sure you're not missing messages you want to see.

Turn Off Reading Pane in Outlook to Avoid Seeing Spam Images

Posted May 15, 2009 - 3:45pm by schwarz

We have a very thorough email spam filter here at Winnefox, but there are still a few spam messages that slip through the gates. To avoid seeing explicit and/or not-safe-for-work images in spam email messages, turn off Outlook's reading pane.

In Outlook the reading pane is on by default.  To turn it off -- in both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 -- here's all you need to do:

  1. On Outlook's Menu bar click "View"
  2. Hover your mouse pointer over "Reading Pane"
  3. Click "Off"

Note: You must turn the Reading Pane on or off for each of your mail folders individually. I suggest turning it off on just your "Inbox" and "Junk E-Mail" folders.
 

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