Midnight_Son

Tips on cutting down the SPAM emails?
I’ve tried blocking and creating rules to cut them down but it just seems to be getting worse.
Is there a non-bullshit program that really works?
I get hit at home, at work I’m so fucking sick of it……..
I wish I could track these people down and deal
with them face to face.

at least with telemarketers I could tell them what I thought of them!

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Redlemon

I use mailshell.com (a pay service). The spam blocking is pretty good. What is even better is that you can set up an infinite number of addresses, use a different one everywhere, and cancel the ones that get spam.

For instance, when you sign up at this board, you could be tfp@cnor.mailshell.com. At Amazon, you are amazon@cnor.mailshell.com. And at that really sleazy porn site where you had a question, sleazeporn@cnor.mailshell.com. Since sleazeporn went and sold your address to the spam people, you can cut off that address (since you already got the answer to that question) without affecting your other accounts.

There are similar free services, but I liked the flexibility of this service. At the moment, I have about 150 addresses.

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Regziever

I've heard that Mailwasher is a good and free program, though I have never tried it myself since I don't have any popmail account...

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tinfoil

I use Cloudmark's SpamNet. It works well, however it is a pay service (unless you can find a beta client for it).

It has drastically cut down the amount of spam I get, probably 75-80 percent of it. I also use PopFile, but it's a little more complex to setup and has more false classifications.

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lurkette

The paid version of Eudora pretty effectively filters most spam. I still have to download it but at least I don't have to sort through it.

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ARTelevision

I'll try Mailwasher now. I've been hearing about it lately. Thanks for the reminder.

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Sledge

If you use Outlook, try the SpamBayes plugin.
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Bayesian learning allows the program to distinguish between spam mails and non-spam mail. You point it at a folder of spam and say, "Learn this," and it learns what's good and what's bad. It's very reliable for me - never thrown out a legit mail. It can even tell between spam and newsletters from, say, Amazon, which I allow to reach me. Also it's open-source.

taog

one way that i cut down on spam a lot is by blocking the whatever.whetever of the spam addresses

Some of them are from yahoo and hotmail accounts, but ones that are something like whatever@23fht3s.net can be blocked, and you wont' get any spam from any of the spammers at that account, as well as the asshat who sent it.

It seems to cut down on a lot of spam, but if you don't keep up with it, you will end up with the same amount of spam in about a month.

I think it's strange that even having your email address on your own site from your own server, you still get spam.

I had a site up for a while, and i didn't give anyone the address that i had on the website. It was support@mydomain.com, and i got a shit load of spam on it. The only place that email address was listed was on my site.

These spammers must be getting smart by taking google search results, then crawling pages for email addresses. I would do that it i was a spammer, or making money off of spammers.

either way, spam is annoying and i'm just waiting for bigger laws to come into play regarding spam.

Mephisto2

I couldn't agree more.

Mailshell ROCKS.

What's more, you can "associate" it with a personal domain. You basically then use the Mailshell service as your email client.

I have my own domain (www.netoma.com), and using mailshell I can setup an infinite number of email addresses, kill ones that begin to get spam, use different addressess for different reasons etc.

You can even "make up" email addresses on the fly. Some website or person wants an email address? How about "qwerty@netoma.com". I don't even have to go into Mailshell to create it. But the power of this solution is that it allows me to bounce mails I don't want, delete incoming mails, put custom bounce messages, move or change settings etc.

I can't recommend this service enough.


Mr Mephisto

Miekle

IT would be nice to track them down since it's illegal to do it now

Glad-I-Ate-Her

Mail Call is a free program that PC Magazine editors wrote. Its not an official anti spam program but it works none the less. Mail Call is very small and runs quietly in the background. When I first log onto the internet, it pulls up a list of emails waiting for me to download from the ISP server. I'm able to knock out spam on the server before it comes into my computer. Its fast and efficient way to deal with spam.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,31389,00.asp

Also here is a link to PC World magazine's page on dealing with spam. They have great tips there.

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/spamwatch/0,00.asp

I hope this helps,
Glad

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cchris

Change your email address.

Tell your friends.

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hawkeye

I use http://www.endjunk.com/ it's a free service that operates just like this.

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Moreland

Personally I think Spam Assassin installed on the servers is the best bet, and it changes the titles to Spam or whatever you set, still lets you download it and all you need is a simple mail rule to stick all emails with spam topic in a folder.

Redlemon

Just checked that out. I think Mailshell is a bit more powerful, but OTOH it is hard to beat free. Check out both, people, go with what will work for you.

Liquor Dealer

We use Postini - It seems to work very well.

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Fearless_Hyena

Never click on the "remove me" link at the bottom of emails, unless you are SURE the company is reputable and that you want to continue doing business with them -- all these links do is validate the fact that your email address works, and while it may remove you from that one list (but may not), all it does is sign you up for many, many more.

Bayesian Filtering is DEFINITELY the way to go. It's been mentioned already so I won't repeat it....

One of the coolest things I've done recently, is gotten Hotmail Popper and now I use Mozilla's email and bayesian junk filters which works A LOT better than Hotmail's crap junk mail filter. I've had my Hotmail account forever, and want to continue using it, and this new system has made it so much easier.

tekaweni

Lots of great tips and advice in this thread!

I get a lot of spam from the same mail servers - obviously some ISP's dont give a shit what their servers are used for.

I'm looking for an email client/plugin that will allow filtering by the IP of a mail server. Sure, this will block *all* mail from that server regardless of who sent it, but at this point I dont give a shit.

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Hanxter

Postini is provided by my ISP for free - it not only reserves spam in a seperate box for you to dump but alerts you when it catches virii as well