Dealing With Spam

kah22

I use Thunderbird as my email client.

Recently I've started to get spam from my own email account e.g. [EMAIL="me@myaddress.com"]me@myaddress.com[/EMAIL]. I don't want to mark it as spam because I fear that it might have an adverse affect somewhere down the road. What should I do in this regards. Changing my email address is not an option as I use it for business purpose and it is already out there on the net.

I also use the free version of 0Spam - and quite good it is to!

Any suggestions, or advice welcomed

Kevin

ABH_3

Yeah it's a spoofed from address, you can read about it all here: http://www.techsupportforum.com/security-center/general-computer-security/316062-email-spam-my-own-email-address.html

My own solution was simply get a gmail address, then add my various email addresses, especially the ones that are being spammed. Googles spam controls are quite good, they sort out the spam from the stuff that's actually for me. The consequence of course, I get my email free from the rubbish. You can set it up so that your email comes to you, then goes through gmails servers and back to your thunderbird account.

http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_collect_pop.htm
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/12/retrieve-pop3-mail-in-gmail.html

HTH