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Spam Mail
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:22 pm
by daventry
How do i stop spam mail coming to my Inbox in Outlook Express, i block them but they go to my deleted items.
I want them gone, i don't want them to come to my in inbox or deleted items.
Please help.
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:51 pm
by Jafar
I dunno. I just use hotmail. No matter how many E-mails I've blocked, spam just keeps coming.

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:05 pm
by Pidgeot
The only way to avoid EVER seeing spam, is not having an e-mail address.
A good spamfilter might help, but there's almost bound to be some it doesn't catch.
Of course, you could also make a filter that tells your client to only accept e-mails from certain addresses - but if someone changes ther e-mail address, they can't notify you from their new address.
By the way, daventry - you do realize you can right-click your Deleted Items folder and empty it that way?
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:11 pm
by Fribbi
You could try this one since it works fine to me.
http://www.mailwasher.net/main.php
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:15 am
by daventry
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:11 pm
by daventry
The stupid program does not work well at all
I still get spam mail, but it definitly stops the ads on the sites.
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:42 am
by Relight
The problem now is spam that comes from
abcdjejdjs@jfdjfdododo.com and they change just random letters every time, just like that. Of course you know you can make your email 'appear' to come from any email address you think up, even if it's not real, so it's basically impossible to block these spam mails on systems such as Hotmail that block specific emails or specific domain names (of course, they'll end up in your junk mail, but in theory you want to avoid them there altogether).
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:00 am
by Jafar
My junk mail filter hasn't been slipped by yet.(Unless you consider MSN annoucements to be junk mail)
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:01 am
by Boogeyman
Relight wrote:The problem now is spam that comes from
abcdjejdjs@jfdjfdododo.com and they change just random letters every time, just like that. Of course you know you can make your email 'appear' to come from any email address you think up, even if it's not real, so it's basically impossible to block these spam mails on systems such as Hotmail that block specific emails or specific domain names (of course, they'll end up in your junk mail, but in theory you want to avoid them there altogether).
Those messages are from SBCGlobal's hired fuckers.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:01 am
by Quest For Glory Fan
hotmail is working perfectly alone for me but just think if i HAD spam and did everything they said i would have the lowest house mortgage best cell phone AND the biggest penis on the internet.....ahh that would be....hell? either way it's probably bad.
which reminds me of something i saw in a pizza place.
In life there are only two things to worry about, whether you are healthy or sick. If you are healthy then there is nothing to worry about. If you are sick then you have two things to worry about. whether you will get better or whether you will die. If you get better then there's nothing to worry about. If you die you've got two things to worry about. whether you will go to heaven or hell. If you go to heaven you have nothing to worry about but if you got to hell then you'll be to busy shaking hands with old friends to be worried about anything.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:09 am
by navynuke04
Ummm... I don't quite get the relevance to the topic, QFG Fan. Either stay on topic, or post in the Random Rants thread (which has no topic).
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:11 am
by Quest For Glory Fan
i had the intentions of being on topic this time i swear...sorry
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:00 am
by Gav
I'd never heard that 'things to worry about' thing before. I quite like it.
On topic, I've been using elitemail.org for a while and never once got a spam email, even though I've signed up for things using the email.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:29 pm
by Peter Swinkels
Maybe you could get a free hotmail address and use that for signing up only so that you don't have to use your regular address to sign up? That's pretty much what I do.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:52 pm
by Angelus3K
The SPAM Guard on Yahoo! Mail is great 99% of SPAM goes straight to the junk folder!
And I like how Incredimail (or any other email client) lets you bounce SPAM back!!
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:33 pm
by Broomie
I never use the junk filter on MSN, sure it sends the "Enlarge your Penis" spam to the junk mail, but it sends important ones aswell. I used to check the junk mail folder frequently to check for emails, I got about 5 important ones a day asking about Quest for Infamy and other important stuff.
For some reason my dad doesn't like Incredimail and never uses it, I for one for it was great and I could actually get my hotmail address working on it perfectly. Not like Outlook Express.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:29 pm
by Spikey
My spamfilter on hotmail works pretty well most of the time.
Though Anathoths e-mails were being delivered into my junkmailfolder for absolutely no reason.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:40 pm
by Meerbat
The filter on my hotmail account usually recognizes all people as spammers, when they write to me for the first time. I have to manually add them to my safe list

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:41 pm
by Spikey
Meerbat you posted.
And so did I.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:09 pm
by Blackthorne519
This thread sucks.
Bt
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:13 pm
by Spikey
*walks away from this thread again*
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:14 pm
by Blackthorne519
Oh, I was just being silly. I've said "This (insert whatever here) sucks" all day! Heh.
Spam does suck. but my YAHOO account filters it pretty well.
Bt
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:01 pm
by BeetleB
Y'all could use software with spam filters - such as Mozilla Thunderbird (new version out yesterday).
Requires some training, but should certainly get over 90% accuracy within a week.
Sorry, it's the only free one I know of - I used to know about another but forgot its name.