Spam Email

[AusCoding Allan]

Ok so I'm sick to death of all the spam email I get, I use outlook and I have limited success with their junk email preventer and also have Spam Inspector.

A lot of spam is still getting through and I'm really starting to get peeved :boom:. Anyone got any brilliant solutions or programs that you guys use - short of changing my email address, I'm really not sure what I can do!

Cheers,

Allan

[Scorpio]

I hear ya... getting around 500 junk mails everyday. I used to filter my mails with outlook... but one day i was working with some paris hilton sites and my client's emails would always get filtered and deleted and it happened oftenly so i've decided to only use the best techniques that works for me, deleting mails manually.. takes 1 minute but at least, nothing is passing me.

DAMN FUCKING EMAILS!
The ones i hate are the ones who are sent from my own emails... i hate that

[Gary-Alan]

Well on top of everything else I have I do have one huge rule in my outlook rule wizard. I called it Spam. The way I have it set is any email that comes in with specific words in the body will be moved to a spam folder.

Right now my list is huge in there. I have many different variations of the words viagra (vi@gra, viagr@, v/iagra), vicodin (vic0din, etc), Mortgage and many others. It still doesn't get them all but my morning download has gone from 800-900 emails (only one of my email addresses with 90% crap) to 250. The rest go ito my spam folder. But I do check them before I delete just in case of strays.

As I get new variations I add them to my spam rule...

Not the best approach but it helps for now.

GA

[Lee]

Set a rule up that will only allow certain words to get through.

so your rule words might be:

The names of your sponsors
The names of your sites
Family members names
Etc

That should ensure that your spam gets cut down a lot as you are basically doing exactly the opposite of what spammers think you are doing.. blokcing certain words

The 'allow' words list is going to be a lot smaller too

Regards,

Lee

[Chilihost]

For a number of my accounts, I have started logging in directly to the server's web based mail so that I can delete the 100 or so spam messages a day before downloading them.

I am using Outlook XP and it does a pretty good job of spam filtering with its built in filters.

cheers,
Luke

[SpamCease]

Originally posted by ozmalegalleries
Ok so I'm sick to death of all the spam email I get, I use outlook and I have limited success with their junk email preventer and also have Spam Inspector.

A lot of spam is still getting through and I'm really starting to get peeved :boom:. Anyone got any brilliant solutions or programs that you guys use - short of changing my email address, I'm really not sure what I can do!

Cheers,

Allan

Hey Allan,

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[AusCoding Allan]

Thanks for all your suggestions guys, sounds like I should persevere with the current system and the outlook rule idea, once again this proves that this is the best webmaster board out there.

Cheers,

Allan

[Cash]

Why can't the email address be changed and inform the people you know about the new address?

[IntenseCash.com]

I also used to get an incredible amount of spam. I was very fed up wasting so much time deleting spam I decided to try a spam filter. I tried the software at http://www.cloudmark.com/ and is has been nothing short of amazing. It adds a spam folder to your outlook or outlook express and about 99% of spam hits this folder. I don't even check it anymore because it is so on target for grabbing the spam. It has saved me SO much time and headaches. There is a 30 day free trial and once you try it I think you will want to buy it. The price was worth every penny and very reasonable. I hope that helps.

Mark

[Chilihost]

Originally posted by ozmalegalleries
...and the outlook rule idea

actually, outlook xp comes with the spam filter rules built into it, you do very little work except for every once in a while when one slips thru all you do is right click and ban the bugger!

cheers,
Luke

[AusCoding Allan]

Originally posted by Cash
Why can't the email address be changed and inform the people you know about the new address?

Hi Cash,

With the sheer volume of people who have my email address (and I want them to have it, it would be hard to change plus there's the whole stationery and business cards angle as well.

Cheers,

Allan

[pornJester]

Originally posted by IntenseCash.com
I also used to get an incredible amount of spam. I was very fed up wasting so much time deleting spam I decided to try a spam filter. I tried the software at http://www.cloudmark.com/ and is has been nothing short of amazing. It adds a spam folder to your outlook or outlook express and about 99% of spam hits this folder. I don't even check it anymore because it is so on target for grabbing the spam. It has saved me SO much time and headaches. There is a 30 day free trial and once you try it I think you will want to buy it. The price was worth every penny and very reasonable. I hope that helps.

Mark

I second this one. Cloudmark SpamNet works great. Only problem I'm having with it is since I've reformatted and reinstalled outlook express. It still works for filtering out spam but only when i press the button to do so. I'm working with them to figure out why it won't filter upon downloading of mail anymore. Other than that it works great on catching spam.

[james789]

I've had pretty good luck with Spambully http://www.spambully.com/ on my windowz machines and Spam Sieve on my macs

[dirtygeek]

Speaking of spam. It looks like I sent this email to myself. UGH! If anyone gets this email it is not from me.

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[Daminen]

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