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Windows Mail and False Spam

BlarghyBlarghy Registered User regular
edited March 2012 in Help / Advice Forum
Over the last year or so, Windows Mail (on a Vista system) has developed an annoying tendency to add a [SPAM] tag to the start of the subject in a lot of my (legitimate) incoming email. It was amusing at first that when my work colleagues were labelled as spammers, but it is now getting to be quite annoying to have to manually edit out the tag when sending back replies (since any back and forth replied subjects quickly turn into Re:[SPAM]Re:[SPAM]Re:[SPAM] and so on).

So, how do I turn off that unhelpful feature? I've tried looking through the anti-spam options, but I can't see anything related to this. I also have McAffee Security Center (which may have a part in this, though I also don't see any options for that in there either).

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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  • MadpoetMadpoet Registered User regular
    Are you sure it's Windows Mail? When I hosted with GoDaddy (bleh) one of the options on their spam filter was to let it through with [SPAM] prefixed to the subject.

  • BlarghyBlarghy Registered User regular
    Madpoet wrote: »
    Are you sure it's Windows Mail? When I hosted with GoDaddy (bleh) one of the options on their spam filter was to let it through with [SPAM] prefixed to the subject.

    Its quite possible that the flagging is coming from some other source. Last year, my ISP dropped their in-house email handling and converted us over to Windows Live. I just signed into their webmail link though, but I can't find any settings related to the issue.

  • MadpoetMadpoet Registered User regular
    Do messages get flagged in the webmail? That would tell you if it's the ISP or your email client.

  • BlarghyBlarghy Registered User regular
    It looks like actual spam in the webmail is flagged as [SPAM] but the regular non-spam emails that marked as [SPAM] in Windows Mail are not marked as [SPAM] in the webmail. Huh?

  • MalgarasMalgaras Registered User regular
    What webmail provider do you use?

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  • BlarghyBlarghy Registered User regular
    gespo89 wrote: »
    What webmail provider do you use?

    MTS-Allstream is the ISP, though they out-sourced their email service to Windows Live/Hotmail.

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