Sick of email spam. Help!

[caledesi]

What is the best program to get rid of the email spam. It's getting really out of hand.

Since I am disabled, I don't get to my email for days sometimes. That could me 1000 emails!

TIA.

[brainshrub]

1. Here's how I did it. I have 3 levels.

Level 1: My publicly viewable email is a Gmail account. Google's proprietary anti-spam protection and policies do a great job on cleaning out unwanted email.

Level 2: I have set my Gmail account to automaticaly forward email to my "real" secret email. OpenSourceHosts.com "spam-assasin" quickly slashes spam that Gmail missed. (OpenSourceHost is the company that hosts my website & email.)

Level 3: I use Thunderbird email software to download my messages from OpenSourceHost's server. Thunderbird spam-filter quickly squishes any spam that might have survived the first two levels.

In short, any penis-enlargement ads that I do see have to be pretty hardy SPAMS.

I get maybe one or two spams a week... tops. I used to get hundreds of them.

[caledesi]

2. Thank you. Sounds like an excellent plan.

But how do I set everything so that my "core" email doesn't receive spam? If I use Google, can I use my "core" addy there first?

Hope you understand this post.

Again, thanks.

[brainshrub]

3. I understand.

I used the multi-level system because I own a domain, so I was getting flooded. You may not need to be as extreme as me. Download the firfox browser and use the built-in spam protection.

When I did that, it cut the spam by about 75%.

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Secret email: ( [e-mail] )
Public: Public email you give out ( [e-mail] )

Even if SPAM does get sent to your secret email, it still has to deal with OpenSourceHost and Thunderbird.

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There are other pay-services you can use. Ask the tech-support forum, I'm sure they can help.

[MADem]

4. Doesn't your IP offer a bulk or suspect spam option?

Hell, even Yahoo! has that, where anything not precleared goes to a bulk folder, and you can select what you want, and dump the rest with a single click...maybe your security settings on your email are too low???

[lpbk2713]

5. Have more than one E-Mail address.

Reserve one to give out to just friends and family. Use the others for websites that require an E-Mail addy for when you register with them. You can be sure that these addresses will be the recipient of spam not long after you register. "Free Game" sites and classmates.com in particular are bad about this. Not only will they send you their own spam (this is where they get their revenue) but they will sell your addy to other spammers and the cycle never ends. Point is, when you see a message from the addy you reserved you know it is not likely to be spam. Another tip, don't open E-Mail that you can tell is spam by the Subject or the Sender. Delete it without opening.