More Spam recently

[F525]

Hi All,

In the last month or so, the amount of spam I get to my
POP mail account has gone up about 10 times. The thing I
have noticed about all of it is that *none* of it is
addressed to me. In the address TO: box, it is meaningless
letters and numbers; not my real email address.

Is there anyway to guard against this spam? I am using
Outlook Express that comes with IE 5. I have been doing
"block sender" on all of it that comes in, but still getting
tons of it. Even some way that it can just be deleted off
the server and not downloaded would be great.

Thanks,

Dwight

[RayH]

If most of your spam comes without a To: Name, then you can set up a Message Mail Rule: If the To Contains a Name, then send to , create a folder. Then just dump everything that enters your in box! Your e-mail will go to that folder you created!

[cable guy]

I use, http://spamcop.net/, to report spam mail I get on my hotmail account.

[Carl Price]

Hotmail.com has a provision that any mail not specifically addressed to your account goes into a "bulk mail" folder. Anything in this folder is automatically deleted in 14 days. You can enter this folder and read this mail if you wish. I usually enter about once a seek and check the headers. If there are any addresses I recognize then I will transfer the post to my inbox and tell Hotmail that this is not bulk mail. From then on anything with this return address goes into my inbox. Works wonderfully.

[hmagnet]

I use Eudora pro, it a great email program and has some really great filters. It's definitely a good weapon to fight Spam with.

[RayH]

More than just irritation, I wary of spam because the same way spammers get your e-mail address, virus senders get them, too!

No shame in my game. I use Hotmail. I read my e-mail from the site and send from Outlook Express. Quite often, the reply feature of the Hotmail site causes iExplorer to crash. It keeps the nonsense off my hard drive.

For people who use POP3s, you can precheck your e-mail with ICQ and delete the ones you don't want directly from the mail server via ICQ.

To protect yourself from spam, you can use Yahoo e-mail to retrieve your POP3 accounts, including your ISP. Check the e-mail and delete from the Yahoo server. It's faster.

Since Yahoo is a POP 3 account, you can use Outlook Express to download the rest. You can reply as normal. Sounds a bit around the horn, but it'll keep viruses off your computer. Plus, when you don't have as much e-mail on your hard drive, you'll be surprised how much your drive isn't fragmented!

[emilyron72]

I fight spam using BSpam : its a good tool to filter spam mails.

[mairving]

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