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I use e-mail a lot. Unfortunately, I get around 20+ spam e-mails a day. So: I paid for Yahoo's E-mail service (Yahoo! Mail Plus) and the spam went from 20 a day to about 5-10 and all of them made it into the Junk Mail folder instead of my inbox.

You can also set it to delete ALL e-mail it thinks is spam - then you have to make sure to add e-mail addresses to your safe list to make sure they don't get killed by the spamguard. I did this for awhile and never got any spam - just - never got any e-mails from amazon.com with my tracking number for something I bought - that sort of stuff so I turned it off.

Basically, spam is pretty bad and it is annoying as ___. Your best bet to avoid spam - create a strange e-mail address like: [email protected] (not [email protected]) and never give it out to any website - that should keep a lot of the spam away.

Like Pablo said - most cable companies have good jumkmail filters as they don't want that stuff hogging bandwidth. I've never gotten spam on my ISP's e-mail.
 
I couldn't do without email. One spam email makes it into my earthlink inbox every couple days. My gmail account is also pretty much spam-free. I can put up with that.
 
Get a Gmail account. They do a pretty effective job of filtering the spam from the main inbox. I get probably 40 pieces of spam a day, 1 or 2 might slip through every now and then.
 
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Some proclaim decent results with MailWasher:

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Others swear by various other programs with those using a Beynesian filter as the best..... with time the program learns from what you tell it as to what is spam/junk/etc.

Still, the spam pours on in.

If you tire of the phishing scams you can hep the cause with this group:

http://www.castlecops.com/friedphish.html

I use the feature wherein I just forward the phishing e-mails with e-mail vice pasting in the info on their site. With time, if this group continues, we may actually see a reduction in the scammers. Can't hurt to help out.

SpamCop:

http://www.spamcop.net/

You have to register but in several years of use they have never spammed nor even e-mailed me. Their program decodes headers automatically and sends a spam report to the e-mail ISP source and to the host ISP of the site the spammer wants you to go to. Also, blacklists are created with the reports so ISPs can block access from spam-friendly ISPs. There is good and bad to this but if an ISP can not be seen by others it is in their own interest to oust the spammers.

The above two sites will not stop the spam NOW but it is a way to fight back and, if millions of folks contribute we may make a dent in the scum vile putrid filthy lower-than-dog-doo-doo scamming spamming subhumans that are a curse on society and should be hanged by the neck from the nearest tree with their vile putrid bodies left dangling in the breeze to feed hungry critters passing by.

Yep.
 
We use GFI Mail Essentials at my office for the past few years and it works very very well. It filters several ways. First, it blocks all know spam, then blocks what on your personal blacklist, then it "learns" from what you mark as "spam" or "ham", and learns from your outgoing emails as "ham". All this translates into a very accurate filter with few false positives after a couple of months. We get about a 99% accuracy. They offer a 30-day trial. This is a must for ISPs that do not offer a bundled spam filter for businesses. Good luck!
 
i like bogofilter. its a bayesian filter that works pretty well after training. a few spams squeezed by this weekend of about 280 spam emails.
 
I get about ten spam messages per day to my GMail account, but all messages go directly to the Spam folder and rarely make a presence in my Inbox. I use e-mail a lot and its not uncommon for me to receive more than 30 messages on any one given day.

GMail has been great and I would not give it up for anything else, especially the threaded messages feature.

The integrated IM is also excellent.
 
"I have 4 email accounts. 2 on my domain server, 1 yahoo, and 1 hotmail. I get so much spam it isn't funny."

Well, no wonder that you have email problems, since you have 4 different email accounts. No one needs four email accounts. Switch to one, trouble free, account.
 
Okay, this is the final straw. I'm doing away with all email. The service is just to unreliable and I get way too much spam.

I have 4 email accounts. 2 on my domain server, 1 yahoo, and 1 hotmail. I get so much spam it isn't funny.

I just changed the email about 6 months ago on my domain server and now it's getting spam.

#2. I setup a contact box for my website, that works okay but for about 1 month none of the messages would be delievered to my email. Luckily a member on here sent me an email and asked why I didn't respond on it, (becuase I never got the email) so I had to change my contact box to be delivered to yahoo. I still haven't figured out why it won't deliver to my lube-direct email.

Now I get an email throught my contact box, I respond to the potential customer, and low and behold, it bounces as underliveralbe.

How the heck can you do "quality" business when email sucks so bad.

I'm proposing getting rid of all email for business and only accepting phone calls.

I'm all about customer service and want to take care of customers in a timely manner, but it just seems impossible with the way email is today.

Anyone have a solution?

PS. Richard Rose if you are lurking on BITOG, call me 877-464-8798 your email is bouncing and I cannot respond to your email.
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My cable co. has an excellent filter. No problems, no issues. I get the very occasional
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- but I just delete it. Millenium cable - cablespeed.com

I can relate though - was the same way when I had a plain vanilla ISP.
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Well my domain hosting company just happened to have a program that I could subscribe to called http://www.reflexion.net/

It's supposed to be a total solution to my problems. We will see, but so far I've had a 90% reduction to spam. Only question is good email being blocked too?

Reflexion Total Control uses supplemental addresses blended with traditional content filtering and whitelisting to completely eliminate spam and phishing, restoring a pristine inbox without false-positives for users in organizations of all sizes.

The breakthrough anti-spam and email security solution is maintenance-free for both users and email administrators, and provides a variety of additional benefits including Address-on-the-Fly for online disclosures, a delegated spam folder, the tracking of address sharing, and many more.
 
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Well my domain hosting company just happened to have a program that I could subscribe to called http://www.reflexion.net/

It's supposed to be a total solution to my problems. We will see, but so far I've had a 90% reduction to spam. Only question is good email being blocked too?

Reflexion Total Control uses supplemental addresses blended with traditional content filtering and whitelisting to completely eliminate spam and phishing,

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Ahh, the million dollar problem; "Is good email being blocked too?" (or what is the "false positive ratio")

The operative word is: whitelist. The spam filter has whitelist capability, so it will immediately allow anyone that is on your whitelist. Now you just have to figure out how to update that whitelist. If you have a button that says "this is not spam" then it should automatically put the sender in your whitelist.

Of course that will only protect you from false positives that you converse with all the time. People who email you for the first time can still be blocked, and you will have to be a little diligent with the software for a while until it learns your email habits.

I use spambayes and spambully. They both work exceptionally well.
 
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