Author Topic: HORDES of E-MAILS (Read 443 times)

aSTAR · « **on:** February 08, 2006, 08:27:14 AM »

I am getting about 10 to 25 emails a day, about enlarging your Jimmy, cheap drugs, health tablets etc.
Is there a way to STOP this:furious

Thanks.

Eagler · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2006, 09:21:02 AM »

mailwasher pro is what I use

I have had my main email since 1996 and get approx 200 to 400 spam emails a day

mailwasher filters & tags most of the crap

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2006, 09:34:28 AM »

Get a new e-mail account and don't sign up for free pr0n using it.

SNO · « **Reply #3 on:** February 08, 2006, 07:45:48 PM »

Have ya seen the ads for 10gain.com and those other work at home and make 10,000 a month deals on tv ?????? There's your answer to where their all coming from.

ALF · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2006, 11:42:50 PM »

get an email client with a good basian filter that learns what you like and dont like. I personally use throw away emails to my domain that match the site Im giving them too so they are easily filtered out

ei: if your giving and email for gamspot.com Id use the email gamespot@mydomain.com and set the max mailbox to 10k....so its enough to get their welcome verification, but after 2-3 email, they all get rejected by my server:aok

Ghosth · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2006, 07:37:15 AM »

Thunderbird, the email side of firefox.

Has built in mail filters that you train, takes about 5 days.
Fully customisable controls on where & what you do with the junk, etc.

After a week you'll wonder how you ever survived without it.

Eagler · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2006, 09:36:43 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Ghosth
Thunderbird, the email side of firefox.

Has built in mail filters that you train, takes about 5 days.
Fully customisable controls on where & what you do with the junk, etc.

After a week you'll wonder how you ever survived without it.

where/how do you set that up?

Ghosth · « **Reply #7 on:** February 09, 2006, 04:36:27 PM »

Thunderbird, tools, junk mail controls.

Check, configure junk settings for (I use my email address vs local folders)

Check, do not mark messages as junk if sender is in my personal address book

Check, Move incoming messages determined to be junk to
"junk" folder on local folders

Check, Automaticly delete junk messages older than (I use 30 days)

Work your way through them all, figure out what you like, what you want to do, etc.

Its really not hard.

it works just as good as mailwasher, without having to run a second program.

Eagler · « **Reply #8 on:** February 09, 2006, 05:04:48 PM »

thanks for the tip and the info !

tapakeg · « **Reply #9 on:** February 09, 2006, 08:47:32 PM »

The only problem with the e-mail filters is it takes more time to train them than to just delete the messages. I was always paranoid I would miss an important E-mail because something else decided I didn't want it.

The "Training" never fully worked on anything I tried

Tap

Ghosth · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2006, 08:53:36 AM »

Tapakeg

Spend a week training thunderbird.

Set it up so all junk mail goes into a junk folder.
So all junk mail gets deleted after 2 weeks (or longer)

Get in the habit of scanning your junk folder once a week until you trust the system. Delete the junk, and look at anything your not sure of.

Its not hard, and it will save you time and frustration in the end.

In the last year I think I've had 3 emails show up in my junk that I actually wanted. In each case highlight it, click the "not junk" button, move it back to my inbox. Add sender to my address book.

Seriously, its easier than you think.

FOGOLD · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:52:11 PM »

Sometimes the only way is to change your e-mail address. Then give it to as few people as possible, If you have to make it publicly available-you sell stuff or something- use a different e-mail.

Don't use your name as part of the address (I don't do this, but i should:rolleyes: )

I don't practice what I preach, but theres no easy way round it. I changed mine but left the old one "live", deleted it from my e-mail send/receive list and use it for websites that demand an e-mail to register like Gamespy. It acts like a flytrap.

Good luck.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #12 on:** February 12, 2006, 09:28:28 AM »

Sounds like a Rook Plot to me

Eagler · « **Reply #13 on:** February 12, 2006, 10:40:26 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Ghosth
Tapakeg

Spend a week training thunderbird.

Set it up so all junk mail goes into a junk folder.
So all junk mail gets deleted after 2 weeks (or longer)

Get in the habit of scanning your junk folder once a week until you trust the system. Delete the junk, and look at anything your not sure of.

Its not hard, and it will save you time and frustration in the end.

In the last year I think I've had 3 emails show up in my junk that I actually wanted. In each case highlight it, click the "not junk" button, move it back to my inbox. Add sender to my address book.

Seriously, its easier than you think.

gotta say, I am really liking t-bird
It learns very quickly and so far accurately
thanks again Ghosth

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 12, 2006, 11:13:26 AM »

I have to support ghosth on this one. I've been using Tbird for about a year now, and it gives all the nice things about Outlook without any of the nasty security holes. Great email proggie.