how to stop SPAM

[baron bashoneov]

The ammount of spam coming through our email
is getting rediculous.
we get around 30 - 40 a day

can anyone advise on how to stop it?

cheers

[r988]

spam filter

also try removing your email addresses from any website, or at least hiding them from trawling programs.

[PetrolTed]

www.cloudmark.com/desktop/index.php?lang=en-us

I've not found a more effective solution. Cheap too.

[Don]

Is this just your own machine or do you run a business with the problem?

If you have a business there is nothing better than Symantec Brightmail (server side). Install. Forget. Its sits there with an insatiable appetite for SPAM. Superb.

[trooperiziz]

PetrolTed said:

www.cloudmark.com/desktop/index.php?lang=en-us I've not found a more effective solution. Cheap too.

Not too handy for us Mac users though

I'm using the filtering in Mail, but it just isn't good enough. I don't mind downloading the headers, or even the bodies! But I just don't want to see the stuff.

Any ideas out there for the iMacMassive?

[Don]

trooperiziz said:

Any ideas out there for the iMacMassive?

Ummm. Get a proper computer?






Now a sensible suggestion: Change to an ISP or POP3 provider who does server-side SPAM filtering. Brilliant. You never see it - you never waste time downloading it.

[trooperiziz]

Don said:

trooperiziz said: Any ideas out there for the iMacMassive? Ummm. Get a proper computer? Now a sensible suggestion: Change to an ISP or POP3 provider who does server-side SPAM filtering. Brilliant. You never see it - you never waste time downloading it.

Got a proper computer as well as the mac but it's been my mail machine for so long, i've gronw attached to it.

My ISP does do server side spam filtering, but some still get through.

[neil_cardiff]

uh oh, here we go again...

The only safe way, in all honesty, is not use the internet.

[trooperiziz]

neil_cardiff said:

uh oh, here we go again... The only safe way, in all honesty, is not use the internet.

That's ok then, I don't use the internet.

[Zod]

I find a combination of bt broadband's and Outlook 2003's spam filtering very effective. I get about one spam email per month.

[jonesgm]

I use Thunderbird www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ has a good spam filter built in.

Mine is configured to move spam to the junk folder, so if i see something that isnt junk I just de-select it(you only have to do this once). I have configured mine to only stay in the Junk folder for a day, then moves them to the delete folder.

It's free too

[ahonen]

jonesgm said:

I use Thunderbird www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ has a good spam filter built in. Mine is configured to move spam to the junk folder, so if i see something that isnt junk I just de-select it(you only have to do this once). I have configured mine to only stay in the Junk folder for a day, then moves them to the delete folder. It's free too

Same here. Seems pretty effective once you've 'trained' it for a few minutes over a couple of days. Some rubbish still gets through, but only a tiny amount.

[zcacogp]

Have to say, this may not be an industrial-enough-strength solution for you, but I have started using googlemail. No-one knows my googlemail address, but anything sent to <anything>@my-domain is redirected to a googlemail address, and I download from the googlemail server.

Googlemail has a very good built-in spam filter, which utterly stopped spam in its tracks. In a manner I wouldn't have believed if someone had described it to me. It has let three bits of spam through in 5 months (down from 45-55 a day), and marked two things as spam which weren't. All five cases happened in the first two weeks, and it hasn't got anything wrong since. (And yes, I have given up checking my spam folder.)

And it's free!

Recommended. I'll send you an invite if you like. PM me if you want.


Oli.

[plasticpig]

You cant. You can reduce it but you cant stop it. If you are referring to your company sales@ email address on your website then you need to change your website and remove the mailto link. You could either have a contact form or an image displaying your email address. This will prevent people who use web spiders from harvesting your email address. Messagelabs offer about the best antispam service I have seen.

[aldi]

Better to receive a little bit of spam than to regularly miss bits of ham. I've set a few people up with 'No Spam Today!' - its a windows wrapper for SpamAssassin. One sites trapping about 600 spams a week, no ham for a few weeks now. Auto learning, auto whitelisting, honeypot addresses = zero hassle.

[Pigeon]

plasticpig said:

You could either have a contact form or an image displaying your email address.

I recommend the image, contact forms are a pain in the arse.

For spam filtering I use spambayes, which does a very good job with a very low rate of false positives.

[Bodo]

I use Spamassassin and the Bogofilter with my email client. Goes like a clockwork!

http://spamassassin.apache.org/
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/