Alessio Roic On Twitter: Reaching The Outlook For Mac
Spam—phishing, marketing, and scam emails—is annoying, that we can all agree on. One Macworld reader wants to take the ultimate step is stopping these emails. Is it possible to set one’s iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad to ensure scam, phishing, and marketing emails are blocked? I’d be grateful for any information you can provide. Would it were so! Would it were so.
Unfortunately, the basis of internet email is that every part of the system more or less mostly trusts every other part. It used to be that every part completely trusted every other part. That’s one problem, because since server and messages are mostly trusted, scammers, spammers, and aggressive legitimate marketers can’t simply be blocked before the message lands at your email host, the site at which email is accepted for your address. Another is that return addresses can be forged—at least some of the time—because there’s no verification system that ensures an email you receive was sent from the address shown to have sent it. (There are ways for owners of domains and operators of mail servers to specify and validate the only legitimate servers that a return address comes from, but they’re not universally deployed nor perfect.) And even if there were a way to prevent malicious and criminal parties from being able to send email from accounts under their control, an unknown, very large number of computers and email accounts have been hijacked or can be on a moment’s notice, sending scams through addresses that otherwise have only carried legitimate email until that point.
However, you can take steps that will help mitigate it, if you aren’t already. Stop unwanted emails at your email host Enable any spam-filtering options available.
Apple automatically performs some blocking and filtering for iCloud. Some hosts, like Fastmail, plug in a well-known system called SpamAssassin, which uses a large set of rules to guess whether email is legitimate or not, or unwanted or not. You can train SpamAssassin, as you can train Gmail and other services by marking email as spam and, conversely, checking the junk or spam folder to mark messages as “ham”—desirable email. (Fun story: the email I received from landed in my spam folder. If I hadn’t checked the folder before deleting its contents, I wouldn’t have been on the show.) Install SpamSieve for macOS to stop spam ($30) is a very long-running, still regularly updated app that maintains its own database of spam and ham, and which plugs into Mail, Outlook, and other macOS email software. It relies on Bayesian analysis of spam and ham, letting it use word frequency to provide a probability of whether a given message is legit or should quit. IDG SpamSieve uses word frequency in messages you mark to predict whether a given message fits your definition of spam.
Set up rules to stop spam Both on a mail host and in email software, like Apple’s Mail for macOS, you can set rules that filter incoming messages and mark them automatically as junk or throw them into the trash. I have a persistent spammer who, for some reason, isn’t automatically marked as spam and hasn’t been shut down despite operating openly from the same address and domain. Tired of marking by hand, I created a filter that marks the messages as junk. Never click a URL in an email Phishing relies on fooling you about messages, so even if you take all protections above, you’ll still wind up with messages that look real. I’ve taken to rarely clicking on a link, but instead visiting a site if I need to know something, unless I can absolutely be confident the URL looks exactly like what I expect.
Mail software could do a lot more. For example, you could blacklist and whitelist URLs, so that messages that contained certain paths or pointed to any domain would require extra steps to go through, while links to legitimate domains were highlighted to show they’d been both verified as secure and you’d marked them as acceptable. Decades into the spam battle, the weapons of defense still seem pretty paltry. Ask Mac 911 We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: to see if your question is covered. If not, we’re always looking for new problems to solve!
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Alessio Roic On Twitter: Reaching The Outlook For Mac 2016
The note states, All applications in the Office for Mac 2011 suite are reaching end of support on October 10th, 2017. As a reminder, after that date there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or technical content updates. Things aren’t as bleak for Office for Mac 2016, although they aren’t promising.
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Version 15.34 and older aren’t supported in macOS High Sierra, and may not even launch. Updating to version 15.35 will get you up and running—or more accurately, up and limping. On Office for Mac 2016, Microsoft says, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote will install and run on 10.13. Not all Office functionality may be available, and you may encounter stability problems where apps unexpectedly quit. If you rely on Microsoft Office and are planning to upgrade to macOS High Sierra when it comes out later this year, be sure to back up your important files first. Testing for compatibility issues on another Mac before committing yours to High Sierra is a smart move, too. For now, it looks like holding off on installing macOS High Sierra is prudent if Office for Mac is a critical part of your workflow.
Microsoft do NOT say that Office 2016 won’t be supported on High Sierra. They say: “During the beta period for macOS 10.13 High Sierra, no formal support is available for this Office configuration. “We strongly recommend that you back up your existing data before trying the software. “If you encounter issues using Office 2016 for Mac on High Sierra, please send us feedback so we can address them. In Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, you can click on the Send a Smile icon in the top-right of the app.
For Outlook, choose Contact Support from the Help menu.” This strongly Read more ». Those who have Office 2016 should run the AutoUpdater manually. When the AutoUpdater needs an update, it seems to not find it if running automatically. Just open any Office app and go to Help-Check for Updates. You will first update the Microsoft AutoUpdater.
When that updates, it will run the new version of AutoUpdater and show you that all of the apps have updates. I am currently downloading Version 15.37 of all Office apps. The Office 2016 release notes can be found here.
The High Sierra info can be found here. One thing those running the High Sierra beta can Read more ».