Spam.

[kojak69]

This is really starting ti p!ss me off now. Every day, I get over 100 spam emails. Perscriptions, mortgages, viagra, filters etc etc... Is there anyway I can stop the firkin things.

[leosayer]

Get a new email addresses - one for friends only, one that you enter into websites for registration etc.

[PetrolTed]

It is a pisser. I've got certain addresses that are now on spam lists which I can't change. Spamnet works well but I still have to look for false positives.

[jeremyc]

If you're using Outlook then I can thoroughly recommend Spam Inspector by Giant Software Company, Inc. (www.giantsoftware.com).

This runs as a plug-in to Outlook and automatically quarantines spam emails (which you can then easily delete with one button press). It 'learns' what you consider to be spam, and allows you to identify 'friends' and 'enemy' senders, as well as what is (and isn't) a spam email.

It even has facilities to safely 'bounce' spam back to the sender and report spammers to ISPs.

It is available to buy & download online (about $35 when I bought it).

I have no connection with the company, other than as a happy user.

[zumbruk]

Demon Internet (www.demon.net) are now using Brightmail, which seems to work well - I've gone from ~600/day to half a dozen and know of no false positives. Yahoo's spamtrapping seems to work well. And if you need "throwaway" addresses for websites, etc., www.mailinator.com works really well.

[aprisa]

I am dealing with my spam fairly well using Norton "Antispam", the mails go straight to the spam folder. What is annoying tho is that I still get a notification of new mail every time one of these spam mails hits the inbox, is there any way of turning off the notification unless the mail is actually in my "to read" folder?

Using Outlook 2002
Nick

[davey707]

Give Cloudmark Spamnt a look - I won't go into detail about what it does but it's very good for me and works a treat.

[fish]

Spam clenser as part of Workgroupmail seems to work very well.

[kojak69]

Thanks all 4 the replies. I'll look into them.

[warmfuzzies]

Mailwasher, works directly off of the email server, you view the headers, decide if its spam or not, then delete/bounce them, and only download the ones you want, its by far an away better than anything else out there, why? Because you only download what you want.
All the others require you to download them first before they are filtered.

kevin

[puggti]

warmfuzzies said:

Mailwasher, works directly off of the email server, you view the headers, decide if its spam or not, then delete/bounce them, and only download the ones you want, its by far an away better than anything else out there, why? Because you only download what you want. All the others require you to download them first before they are filtered. kevin

Have to agree with this recommendation best found so far and works real well without affecting current settings.

plus if you only want it for one address it manages the best USP it is free

[agent006]

The only way to stop spam is to change your address. The best way to change your address is to buy your own domain name.
If you reply to any spam you're doomed. You'll get more and more.
Don't give out your email address to anyone you don't trust. I only get spam on my address i use for internet forums (not PH though).

I've got my own domain and use around 10 email addresses. Most of these forward back to my main email, so i can just delete whichever address is getting the spam, and change any legitimate mails to whatever i replace it with. For £50 a year it is really worthwhile.