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[tezza]

I was unsure where to put this at first, however seeing other posts on Outlook Express in this forum I thought it would be the best place for it. However please feel free to move this if it is in the wrong location.
My main email client that I use is Microsoft Outlook Express. My question is what is the best anti-spam software to help get rid of spam from it. I have used various pieces of software over the years, yet each one has not worked efficiently for me. They either slow it down when opening Outlook Express or do not even block spam. I am getting very annoyed with the amount of Spam I am getting now it is getting out of hand and I was hoping someone new the best software solution for the job.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[tezza]

anyone? Or have i posted in the wrong forum?

[Mark420]

It doesnt really sound like an issue with Outlook express it sounds like your mail account is just getting spammed.

Could I suggest that you actually change your email addy or abandon it to pure spam and move on to a new one ?

This is the best way to combat spam in imho..also avoid hotmail and yahoo addys cos they are a spammers paradise!

My recommendation would be Gmail..been using it for a year orso and never had any form of spam in the inbox.



Also using a mail addy purely for registrations on sites or on forums also helps keep your "real" address safe..I have one like this that is full of spam but also full of user registration details for many different sites or different autho codes in them..So I only sign in to this mail when I have just been sent some mail..then i move the registration emails to a new folder and leave the inbox to get spammed to hell.





Good Luck!



Markl;)_

[Ed :P]

You probably posted your email somewhere and spambots are picking it up and spamming you. If you can figure out who sent it, you can sue them. Spamming emails is illegal and very nice to be compensated for them being assholes.

[Grafitti]

Zonealarm has a junk mail filter that actually catches most of the spam. it's not a good solution though if you have a slow internet connection, as it only deletes them/moves them to your junk mail folder AFTER they're downloaded. so if you want to catch them before they even download, what about mailwasher? Never tried it, but that's what it supposedly does. how about getting a gmail account, and either switching over to it, or forwarding your other email through that. that's what i do, and the gmail spam filter catches over 99% of my spam. of about 100 spam emails that are sent to my address a day, i probably get 3 or 4 that slip through in the course of a month.

[Kardus]

Have you heard of filtering spam with another email address? I use Gmail and it really helps. The method can be found here:

Gmail allows you to forward incoming messages to any other e-mail address. Go to the Settings page and then to the Forwarding and POP tab. In the Forwarding option, set Gmail to forward all incoming mail to your regular e-mail account, and keep a copy in Gmail’s inbox.

Once that forwarding rule is set on Gmail, all incoming mail to user@gmail.com will get spam filtered and anything left over will be forwarded to user@domain.com, with a copy left at Gmail. But that doesn’t help you much yet, because people are still sending spam directly to your user@domain.com account.

Now, over at your user@domain.com’s mail server, create a server-side filter to check the headers of any incoming e-mail. Have it forward to your Gmail account if it does not find the following in the header:

X-Forwarded-For: user@gmail.com user@domain.com

In English, the filter would be written: “Any mail that does not contain ‘X-Forwarded-For: user@gmail.com user@domain.com’ in the mail header should be forwarded to user@gmail.com”.

Once this server-side filter is in place, only mail on its way back from user@gmail.com (already filtered for spam) will be passed to your user@domain.com account's inbox. Everything else will be forwarded on to user@gmail.com to be filtered and forwarded back.