As the webmaster of this site, I receive tons of spam emails over day on several email adresses.

How do you proctect yourself against spam, if you are using software which u are using or what else do you do to prevent non approved or non subscriped newsletters and spam emails.

Leave you tipps and tricks !

Their are spam filters on the net for download, also, if you use certmail programs like outlook, u can forward un wanted address's straight to a folder of your choice
thats what Ido

Mailwasher is supposed to be the best anti spam program out there...

also, Opera 7 have builtin spamfilers.

Mailwasher is great , it bounces a mailer daemon error to the spammers and it builds a black list . I got rid of tons of spams using it , now i've no more spams :wink:

Seems like a lot of work, but I slowly build up my own filters in outlook. (e.g. adding rules to send emails that have certain sentences / subjects to a junk folder) as I recieve junk I make up new rules that covers that too, it seems I only ever get 4 or 5 actually different spam emails, they seem to repeat the same mail a lot, so a single rule can remove a heap of junk mail.

but those filters die evert time you format the windows partition... same as with the mail, unless you get a backup/restore thing for outlook, and those arent free either.

I use spamcop.net

Spamcop creates blacklists, whitelists and most importantly, it sends spam reports to ISP's and admins.

So, instead of just filtering or blocking spam, Spamcop actually reports and helps stop spam at its source.

I think it works great. When I started using it, I recieved a number of spam a day. Now, I recieve perhaps one or two spam a week.

I have three email accounts that I filter through spamcop, two which autoforward and one is a POP account that Spamcop picks up and filters.

So, everything I get is filtered. If a supected spam is in there, I just submit it and fire away a report to the admins who are responsible for the place the email was sent from.

Oh yea, perhaps best of all, Spamcop does all the dirty work with the headers automatically, tracing down where a spam actually came from and getting the correct email addresses for "Whom It May Concern".

And, Spamcop scans your email for html exploits and viruses.

Spamcop is a POP email account, along with a web mail. So, you can continue to use whatever interface you like.

All of this costs $3/month, $36/year.

If you do not get many spam, Spamcop also has a free reporting service you can sign up for. Simply sign up, and they give you an email address to report spam to. Then, when you forward spam to them (as an attachment, to preserve the headers) they email a link back to you for your to verify and submit the spam reports.

Super! I love it...One of the few things I actually pay for on the internet.

I highly recommend that you check it out. For most people, all they want are filters. If you are a little more aggressive, help stop spam at its source.

Now if there was just a way to erase your email address from those lists that spammers sell to each other...

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that last post sounds a bit too much like a TV-commercial/tvshop


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Sorry bout that...

I am a strong proponent of spamcop.net...

I wrote to MaximumPC to complain in their 'fight spam' write-up about not reviewing spamcop.net.

I really feel that it doesn't get nearly enough publicity...it seems like everything out there is about filters...which don't do anything about people who send illegal mass marketing emails...so, I feel like I have to bring peoples attention to it...

Sorry if I was pushy, but it rocks!

...Or you can spend just as much on something that just hides the spam you get in a different folder.


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I too use SpamCop for my clients.

It's a great solution for businesses running MS Small Business Server which uses MS Exchange Server to download mail from a single pooled POP3 mailbox and then redistributes it.

For $36/year it protects the entire office from SPAM. I get the ISP to pool and forward all mail to SpamCop's POP3 email address and then I configure MS Exchange Server to download the messages from SpamCop.

n.b. SmallBiz Server includes a special add-on to Exchange Server that allows it to collect mail from a POP3 mailbox. The full version of Exchange Server is designed to listen for incoming SMTP mail only although 3rd party solutions are available. This also works great for a lot of other POP3-based email servers like Mdaemon.