Don't talk to me about spam!

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You'd have been better to contact the support folks for your email account and get them to delete them`off the server. Or do it yourself if you have a web login for that account.
 
Time to ditch your addies that get spam.

May even need to change your ISP to get a new addy.
 
Get yourself a spam buffer email account. I have a couple of web mail accounts that I use purely for signing up to games and any website/business that insist you give them your email address, these accounts get spammed but because they are web based all I have to do is highlight the ones I don't want and delete them without ever downloading or reading them.

My main email address gets virtually no spam because it's used solely for friends and family.
 
With having my own website I have it set up that anything that gets sent to ?????@woblee.com get collected in one place. Then when I sign up to websites I tend to use (for example) talkphoto @ etc.etc

When one of the addresses starts getting spammed I simply block that email box and bounce the emails back to the sender.
 
i'd love to know what comes after 'pop3.blu....'

let's hope it's not blue movies :eek:
 
I use a program called mailwasher, it identifies spam and will delete it for you from your email server, just takes a while to setup the trusted mail settings. Even lets you "bounce" stuff back which implies that your email address doesnt exist.
 
Update,

This was from an unused domain 'catch all' email address that I have parked with my hosting Co. I noticed that my usable space on the server was reducing dramatically and upon investigation there was over 1GB spam.

Due to the size I couldn't delete the folder at my end and had to get the hosts to sort it at the server direct.

Took a bit of working out but we got there in the end.
 
Result. Seems to be an almost certain occurence once an email address reaches a certain age...
 
Plusnet. I get barely half a dozen spam messages.....a year. That's right...a year.
 
MisterE said:
Plusnet. I get barely half a dozen spam messages.....a year. That's right...a year.
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It had nothing to do with an ISP.
 
Plusnet have improved -- I still run a couple of free-online addresses from the `90s, and there used to be a fair amount of spam.

I gave up using PurpleCloud for small sites when I saw that if you left off checking an account for a few weeks, you'd get a maximum of 20 spams most days with a much larger amount dated with the date of checking. I've checked a friend's unused account with them just now: 173 spams of which 146 have today's date and the remaining 27 are spread over the past six months.

I've always used email clients that allow just the headers to be downloaded and the messages deleted off the server, if necessary. A quick way of keeping the crud at bay without relying on filters. I do use filters, but they are specifically targeted.
 
MisterE said:
The point I was making was that Plusnet stops them getting to my inbox in the first place.
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I understand your post and I know what you mean but in this case it had nothing to do with an ISP.

My ISP is Virgin Media and I don't get any spam at all. :)
 
Steep said:
Get yourself a spam buffer email account. I have a couple of web mail accounts that I use purely for signing up to games and any website/business that insist you give them your email address, these accounts get spammed but because they are web based all I have to do is highlight the ones I don't want and delete them without ever downloading or reading them.
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I set myself up an account with fastmail with an email address that nobody knows. I also have several other email accounts that all get forwarded to my fastmail account. My main email account is with my web hosting service; that allow me to have anything@myname.com.

When I have to create an account with Acme, I register using acme@myname.com. When I later get spam sent to that address I know exactly who to blame - and, believe me, I let tham know about it! If I just want a temporary registration I'll use spam@myname.com.

So, all of my email gets forwarded to a single, private, address with Fastmail. Their interface allows me to filter what happens to all that email. Anything sent to spam@myname.com gets deleted. If I start getting spam sent to acme@myname.com then I'll either set it to be deleted or, possibly, have it forwarded to acme for a week or two!

It's great. I only need to check one account for all of my email (work, teaching, personal) I've got complete control as to which emails I see (so anything with 'russian' and 'girls' in the body is dumped) any account at myname.com that's compromised gets dumped, companies that leak their mailing lists get sussed. And all for $20 a year.
 
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