Looking for best anti-spam tips

[gr8fl4porsche]

Due to the amount of spam I receive daily, it stands to reason that others must be experiencing the same dilemna.

I like to use Outlook and have tried Thunderbird - still lots of spam. What are your best tips?

For a while I put all the incoming addy's into the junk senders box but they still keep coming. Different addresses, different spelling, you know the drill.

How can I virtually eliminate spam while using an email client such as Outlook?

[Mule]

It will never happen in Outlook. Thunderbird will eliminate most if not all. Next option, new email address. It will get you off of all the lists you're currently on.

[id10t]

In thunderbird, you have to enable the junk mail controls, and mark mail as junk. You also need to not automatically add people who's addresses send you mail to your addressbook automatically, since the junk mail controls white-list anyone in your abook.

Another option is to forward all your mail to a gmail account, and then access gmail via pop3 or imap..

[stomachmonkey]

The absolute best spam filter I have ever encountered is gmails.

It catches 99% of my spam and has not flagged one "good" one as junk in the 3 years that I have been using it.

You can even set it up as a POP account and use with any POP client.

I use it to aggregate all my accounts.

Meaning you can set it to check any email account that you have and they all come into the same inbox.

You can set preferences for it to respond from a single address of your choosing or to respond from the original address.

You can also receive from address A and respond from address B, C, D etc...

You can view most attachments online and even open edit save and resend typical stuff like Word and Excell.

If you don't want to use the web client you can set the gmail account up in your POP client of choice. Have gmail fetch all the mail from your other accounts. Download via your POP client spam free. Set the account that it fetches from to delete all mail x number of days old.

I think you can get gmail without an invite these days. If an invite is still required I have 50 of them available. Anyone here is welcome to have one.

[TerryH]

Verizon is my ISP, only family and friends know that address. It may get one spam a month.

I have 4 Yahoo addresses for all my online shopping, forums, etc.. and they generate 50 spam a day and I don't care. I find Yahoo is pretty good at catching 95%+ of junk.

If you have to, get a new address from your provider and keep it sacred. It won't stay a secret forever, but if you're careful, it can be spam-free for many months or longer.

[gr8fl4porsche]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

The absolute best spam filter I have ever encountered is gmails.

It catches 99% of my spam and has not flagged one "good" one as junk in the 3 years that I have been using it.

You can even set it up as a POP account and use with any POP client.

I use it to aggregate all my accounts.

Meaning you can set it to check any email account that you have and they all come into the same inbox.

You can set preferences for it to respond from a single address of your choosing or to respond from the original address.

You can also receive from address A and respond from address B, C, D etc...

You can view most attachments online and even open edit save and resend typical stuff like Word and Excell.

If you don't want to use the web client you can set the gmail account up in your POP client of choice. Have gmail fetch all the mail from your other accounts. Download via your POP client spam free. Set the account that it fetches from to delete all mail x number of days old.

I think you can get gmail without an invite these days. If an invite is still required I have 50 of them available. Anyone here is welcome to have one.

thanks for the tip - gmail seems to filter out the spam very nicely.

1 question, I am using 5 other email addys from a differnet pop server - how can I set it up to see which address the message is being sent to. Gmail currently tells me who it is from and the subject line but not to which address in the inbox. When I open the email it tells me who it is to but not in the inbox.

[Dennis Kalma]

I have had a few problems with gmail, it regularly captures legitimate emails as spam, and then does not notify you that it did so. I checked for an option box to allow the spam through,but could not find one.

It has cost me some serious bucks as I have missed a few committments because the request got hung up at gmail and I could only see it if I happened to go online (as opposed to downloading mail to my outlook).

Not that great actually....

Dennis

[gr8fl4porsche]

I'll keep and eye on it. It puts the spam in a sep folder and for awhile I will review them. I use a different work email for anything important like my order status thru Pelican.

[Mule]

Any web mail, gmail, hotmail, etc, etc, is going to be vastly inferior to Thunderbird. The filtering may be slightly better, but it will be inflexible & cumbersome. I get a couple of "male enhancement' ads a week & a fake rolex spam every so often. That's it.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Dennis Kalma

I have had a few problems with gmail, it regularly captures legitimate emails as spam, and then does not notify you that it did so. I checked for an option box to allow the spam through,but could not find one.

It has cost me some serious bucks as I have missed a few committments because the request got hung up at gmail and I could only see it if I happened to go online (as opposed to downloading mail to my outlook).

Not that great actually....

Dennis

Go into your spam folder, click the box to mark the mail, click Not Spam button just above.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Mule

Any web mail, gmail, hotmail, etc, etc, is going to be vastly inferior to Thunderbird. The filtering may be slightly better, but it will be inflexible & cumbersome. I get a couple of "male enhancement' ads a week & a fake rolex spam every so often. That's it.

Like I said earlier, gmail can be used as a Web Client or you can use it with your favorite POP client.

Account set up in Thunderbird has a setting specifically for gmail, just put in your gmail address and all the other config info is already there.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by gr8fl4porsche

thanks for the tip - gmail seems to filter out the spam very nicely.

1 question, I am using 5 other email addys from a differnet pop server - how can I set it up to see which address the message is being sent to. Gmail currently tells me who it is from and the subject line but not to which address in the inbox. When I open the email it tells me who it is to but not in the inbox.

There is an option in Settings that let's you label stuff to identify source.

Never used it.

I'll check it out and see if it sorts your issue.

[gr8fl4porsche]

Earlier today, I applied the setting you described and it did not work. I just checked email again and it is working.
Thanks for the help.

[targa911S]

I have a Mac and use the mail program provided with the OS. It learns. I get NO spam what so ever.

[gr8fl4porsche]

Originally Posted by Mule

Any web mail, gmail, hotmail, etc, etc, is going to be vastly inferior to Thunderbird. The filtering may be slightly better, but it will be inflexible & cumbersome. I get a couple of "male enhancement' ads a week & a fake rolex spam every so often. That's it.

I used Thunderbird in the past and received lots o spam. I may not have it set up correctly. Just checked it again and had at least 10 spams since I checked email a couple of hours ago.

Gmail has been near spam free all day. Outlook has let over 50 go thru today alone with a junk mail sender file with a thousand banned address' in it.

Edit: Just counted 17 spams thru Thunderbird in 2-3 hours

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by gr8fl4porsche

Earlier today, I applied the setting you described and it did not work. I just checked email again and it is working.
Thanks for the help.

Yeah, I enabled it also.

Looks like it only applies automatically to mail received after you turn it.

Mail received before you can check and manual label.

[Mule]

Originally Posted by gr8fl4porsche

I used Thunderbird in the past and received lots o spam. I may not have it set up correctly. Just checked it again and had at least 10 spams since I checked email a couple of hours ago.

Gmail has been near spam free all day. Outlook has let over 50 go thru today alone with a junk mail sender file with a thousand banned address' in it.

Edit: Just counted 17 spams thru Thunderbird in 2-3 hours

No idea. You can click tool, privacy, and check all 3 boxes. If gmail works for you then use it. My email has no limits on size which is too handy for me to give up in return for avoiding one or 2 spam emails a day. My junk folder collects hundreds for every 1 that gets through.

[stealthn]

Computer Associates makes a very good spam filter for Outlook. You train it to the contacts you accept. I think it's around $20.

Goodluck

[kstar]

Another vote for Gmail and its spam filtering abilities.

I run a few email accounts/addresses into Gmail then forward everything out to my .Mac account and access that via the Apple Mail app. Spam is not an issue.

Best,

Kurt

[cstreit]

This seems to be one of the things Comcast does well. They have an anti-spam filter so Outlook never receives them. I check it periodically and haven't had a real e-mail get flagged yet. I get about 2-3 spam per day which is manageable...