email spam control

[Bill T]

I like Mailwasher, which lets me see whats out there on the mail servers, (in my
account(s)), and decide what I want & what I wish to delete. That way I avoid
bringing the whole collection of stuff to my pc, only the emails I want. In other
words, filter the mail while its still out on the mailserver as contrastred to filter
the email after your downloaded the emails to your pc.
Works with POP3, IMAP,Hotmail, and AOL.

www.firetrust.com you can try it free, I believe, to see if it is what you want.
Hope this helps !

 

[BarCom]

Yup. Dom't use 3rd party SW like hotmail (not 3rd party, but close enough)
or Yahoo.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I'm a big fan of Spambayes (google it) -it's free, and works quite well.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take
to minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your
reply address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe"
or "remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only
compound the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the
your desire not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in
the first place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is
confirming that he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. (Of course,
not all such sites have under-handed motives; it's a judgment call.
If the offer seems "too good to be true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net).
This utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it
from the server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future
emails from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders
list, so the their messages are automatically deleted from the server
without being downloaded to your PC.


Bruce Chambers
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[big jim]

Can anyone recommend a good email filter program to control spam?

Jim S

 

[Guest]

Install windows xp ps2.

Greetings --

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take
to minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your
reply address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe"
or "remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only
compound the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the
your desire not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in
the first place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is
confirming that he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. (Of course,
not all such sites have under-handed motives; it's a judgment call.
If the offer seems "too good to be true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net).
This utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it
from the server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future
emails from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders
list, so the their messages are automatically deleted from the server
without being downloaded to your PC.


Bruce Chambers
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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Install windows xp ps2.

Well, an SP2 install may not be a bad plan, but it won't do anything about
spam.

 

[Malvern]

Can anyone recommend a good email filter program to control spam?

Jim S

If you wanted e-mail is light--say around 3 wanted messages daily--Look at
Tools>Message Rules in Outlook Express. I am set up to delete at the server
items either NOT coming from specific people or NOT with specific subject
lines. Let 'em send their trash; I never see it unless I have to
temporarily disable a rule, in which case, I do get and have to delete
stuff.

Malv

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

I presume you're referring to WinXP's Service Pack (SP) 2? How
could installing that _possibly_ affect who obtains one's email
address and then sends one unwelcome emails?

Bruce Chambers
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[big jim]

Thanks to everyone for your help, I will be trying some of your suggestions.

Jim S

 

[Shane]

Well, actually Hotmail's not bad if you figure the main way you get spam is
by handing out your e-mail address to commercial sites or using it for
newsgroups, etc, so you use a Hotmail account for that purpose, set it to
immediately delete everything and never check it, just synchronising it with
OE to keep it active.


Shane

 

[Shane]

I also use Spambayes - though it's better in Outlook than Outlook Express,
at least if you have a large collection to train on from the start.

But, if you don't mind paying a very small amount, Cloudmark's Spamnet is
very effective. When you designate something as spam, it adds the details to
the community database. Costs something like 2 dollars a month to access
that database. My father uses it and I expected it to be crap, but it's very
good.


Shane