Internet Explorer e-mail

My new Outlook when sending something to junk has a window that pops up and asks if you want to block their address. It works.

It all depends on how you get your E-mail..

Web Mail. I do not know what comcast uses so can not help you

Client mail (Meaning a program on your computer that downloades all your mail and lets you read it at your leasure) You can set up a "Kill Filter"

Yahoo mail click on options and choose filters

or just keep reporting it as SPAM and eventually they will tag it up front.

I use Thunderbird and a program called MailWasher.

MailWasher does a pretty good job of figuring out which emails are spam and you can also tell it that one is spam and it will remember it from then on. You can just read the headers in Mailwasher and tell it to delete the spam messages. You don't have to open the messages.

1. Go to the Comcast e-mail page and sign in.
2. Click on "Preferences" in the black band near the top.
3. Click on the "e-mail" box that is in the middle of the page
4. Click on "Incoming E-Mail Restrictions" edit.
5. It will tell you to go to "My Account" to edit that item. {you may be able to go directly to "My Account" and skip steps 2-5 above.}
6. When there, click on "E-mail Safe list"
7. Edit the list of "E-mail addresses you still want to receive messages from".
8. Also make sure "Spam Filtering" button is turned on.

This should help some. Once you set that up you should not receive most of those annoying spam e-mails.
Barney

If you are downloading email from Comcast on to a local client - like Outlook, marking them as spam just makes them spam on your machine. Spam filters have to be updated, and usually are if you are dong you updates. to block them at Comcast, go to Comcast.net and logon with your email user credentials, go to your inbox and mark spam messages. doing this, they won't get downloaded to you.

I do agree with using Gmail as their spam filters are good and once marked as spam, you don't get another from the same address. This also requires you go to you google account online and mark as spam - I'm suprised I can't mark spam messages on my i-phone, unless I just don't know how to do it. Maybe I'll look it up.

Another option is to chuck Outlook Express for Thunderbird, which is a very good E-mail client. It has excellent filtering capabilities.

It can largely depend on the auto Spam controls by your email provider. Google has been noted for being one of the best in filtering out spam. In fact, some just use a GMail account to filter out spam from another email provider. Basically, retrieving their email from another provider directly through GMail. You can optionally auto forward post spam filtered messages to another email of your choosing. Have also found Outlook.com email to have fairly good auto spam controls. Better than AOL.

The next step would be to manually flag specific spam. Most email clients nowadays have some type of spam learning controls. This may only be fairly effective.

And finally, you can create specific email filters which can not only target the domain name, but also keywords used in messages to otherwise identify hard to detect spam.

Long term, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get an E-mail address that isn't tied to your ISP. I use multiple addresses -- a Yahoo one that I pay for (for no ads), and one on a custom domain. I use the Yahoo one for everything but high-priority stuff (as in work related items.) This can be expensive though.

I also use Outlook (not Outlook Express), which gives very good filtering tools. That way, I can get the ISP to just mark spam (rather than outright delete it), and my filters do the rest.

If they are from a common sender you should be able to right click and select "Junk mail" and it should go directly to the jumk folder. Then you can just delete from there without opening the mail.

Happykaykers: Thanks for posting that. It was interesting reading and I may want to follow that route in the future.