If your emails are landing in spam, it’s rarely due to a single mistake. Spam placement is usually the result of small technical gaps adding up, misaligned authentication, weak sending discipline, or ...

I've been using Mail's junk filter for a while, but just recently it seems to have gone haywire. It was working quite well, but recently it's become quite poor at guess spam (even if I recieved the ...

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I got a copy of Office 12 prerelease from a friend (MSDN), just so that I could see what it was. I played around for an hour or so then uninstalled it. When I ran my Outlook 2003 install again, my ...

If you have a lot of unwanted messages, clutter is actually the least of your trouble. Spam is a major way that devices become infected with malware—software that hackers use to steal data and damage ...

A group of e-mail marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters--which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. The ...

Some popular free Web services are playing both sides of the fence when it comes to protecting consumers from pesky marketers, offering to block junk e-mail while they help advertisers push promotions ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Years ago, email spam was a huge problem. There was an escalating war between spammers and spam filters. Eventually, spam filter technology won. Although email spam is still a thing, the vast majority ...

Critics of aggressive spam filtering have long argued that losing or seriously delaying even one piece of important business e-mail – the dreaded false positive – is an unacceptable price for getting ...