I dont know what I signed up for but in the past month.......im receiving 800 emails a day and its all garbage. I have a filter and spam folder and all of that but its not catching anything. The problem is that this is my business email address........and im getting chocolate orders everyday. I dont want to get a new email address and lose potential customers who have always emailed me here. Is there a way to figure out what i signed up for (I never sign up for anything online either) or is there a way to get rid of these things? I am sick and tired of deleting 760 out of 800 emails because im searching for the 40 that I DO need.
I've never tried this, but theoretically you can get a yahoo account and auto-foreward your current email there. Your customers still send to your current email, but it gets forewarded to yahoo to go through their spam filterings; then you just check your yahoo email from now on. does that make sense? For reasons I can tell you if you want, yahoo does noticeably better filtering than most other email options.
Do you own your mail server or use someone elses? You say you have a spam folder but are you using any spam filtering software?
My dearest beloved.... I get three or four of those per day. It never pays off either.... I know some people who use www.SpamArrest.com
thankfully.........none of it is p*rn. Its pretty much 10 different emails trying to sell me office furniture, direct tv satellite, and abdominal exercise equipment. The thing is...............i get like 100 of them all....everyday. Does that spam arrest work and how do i guarantee that i dont lose a customers email because of that filter?
heyp's advice is good. i have 2 other email accounts directed to yahoo and it filters out lots of crap to bulk mail. my inbox is usually pretty clear of spam.
I have a pretty old yahoo account that gets 200 spam letters a day in the bulk and probably 10 times as much if I didn't filter. It's my primary junkmail account I use to sign up for stuff. Free yahoo mail accounts only get like 50 addresses to block, so you have to block the domain instead of the original address. Foreign addresses or .biz can be totally blocked by putting them in the filter. It takes some decent pruning every month, but I get ~6 junk letters in my inbox every week I check it whereas there's a couple thousand in the bulk spam folder.
I believe it requires the Sender to write a request to have their email read. It's designed to prevent group mailers from assailing your inbox. It proves human involvement! I would think that your customers, eager for fudge, would do anything to get their order through. I think it has a 30 day trial...
I use Thunderbird and it has a pretty decent spam filter and it works very well if the spam are from the same source or follow the same format.
yes, this advice is also recommended by a guy who used to admin Clutch's server here (he runs spamgourmet.com) and by KPFT's geekradio.com group of tech heads. emoreland...try it and post back whether it worked. I don't have spam; thanks to jqh of spamgourmet.com and by running my own email server, but many people ask me about this, and it sounds like it works.
well, try thunderbird. but spam is rarely from the same source. Spammers hack into weak security servers and redo it every day from an entirely different source. Yahoo handles SO MUCH email that it is able to detect spam dynamically each day by "bulk mail"ing any massive mailers for you. It want go to your inbox. very very few email providers can do this; they have to have massive amounts of email users to quickly determine the servers that got compromised each day for the mailers to come from. yahoo did it first. they are the best. if you don't understand what i'm saying, then understand companies pay big bucks for this dynamically tagging hacked mail servers and yahoo does it for free.
Thunderbird's filter is great once you've trained it with a few hundred messages. Other than that, I have had success blocking about 90% of spam by using some creative/draconian measures on my mail server (Postfix) -- using an assortment of header and sender checks that usually reject the message before it is even delivered, and then I pass the rest through Spamassassin.
