"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:32:13 -0000, dennis@home wrote:

I never get spam in my hotmail inbox, it uses a user defined
white
list so only people I allow can send me mail.

So when you correspond (in the broadest terms) with some body "out
there" you have to add them to your whitelist? That must be fun if
it
was a webform and you don't know the address it was sent to or
what
address is going to be used for the response.

Well you just go to the webmail and see what replies you have had and
click on the button to allow that user.

That's not waht you said, you said "only people I allow can send me
mail".

Pedant.
Anyone can send anyone mail, it may not be delivered.
Just as mail from people not on the list isn't delivered.
However unless you have blacklisted it it will be stored on M$ mail system
in case I do want it.


So how does some one send you mail when you don't know the address
they are going to send from so you can add it to the the whitelist
manually or see it in webmail and click a button to add it to your
white list?

See above, you just look in the "do you want to keep this folder".


Pretty much how you would if you were running the anti spam locally.

Mine "just happens" no adding of people to address books or
whitelists or anything. The server rejects most spam at the SMTP
level and it never gets transfered


Same as mine then, most spam is intercepted, however stuff that isn't
detected as spam isn't delivered either unless its white listed.

, what little gets past that is
caught by Spam Assasin running on it's defaults with auto learn on.

Which is more or less what the spam filter on the M$ server does, except it
has input from millions of users who mark stuff as spam.