Best way to combat junk mail. Hotmail?

tomstickland

I've recently started to receive a lot of retalitatory email in my inboxes. Ever since I emailed the admin email address for a website that was linked to unwanted viagra sales emails. Most of the email is of no use and just contains offensive title fields.
It's a waste of my time, so I'm considering moving all of my email over to hotmail since this seems to be pretty good at combatting junk mail.
Is this is a worthwhile idea?

My current email is all on webmail servers (custom "hotmail" accounts provided with a web interface by my hosting company) since my hosting company aren't my ISP.

biddy79uk

tomstickland wrote:

I've recently started to receive a lot of retalitatory email in my inboxes. Ever since I emailed the admin email address for a website that was linked to unwanted viagra sales emails. Most of the email is of no use and just contains offensive title fields.
It's a waste of my time, so I'm considering moving all of my email over to hotmail since this seems to be pretty good at combatting junk mail.
Is this is a worthwhile idea?

My current email is all on webmail servers (custom "hotmail" accounts provided with a web interface by my hosting company) since my hosting company aren't my ISP.

defnatly go ahead with hotmail that happened to me
and i stuck-out with hotmail (transfere) it sorts all junk mail out for you
well its up to you when and what you want doing with your mail
just go to mail settings and its all there for you :beer:
you cant go wrong

tomstickland

OK, useful bit of admin for me really. Go round every website/bank etc and update my details.

esuhl

I haven't used Hotmail for some time, but found that I received significantly more spam to my Hotmail address than any other - perhaps they've got better at filtering spam now.

I've started using Spambayes at home, which is absolutely brilliant (and free). You have to train it - to begin with, most email is moved to an "uncertain" folder for you to tell it whether it's spam or not, but very quickly it learns what you want to receive.

Here's the link if you're interested: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

hobo28

Hi Tom

I use two e-mails. One for personal stuff, banks, friends etc. The other (hotmail) for websites, forms which ask for e-mail etc. This is because you never know with the latter who will get your e-mail address and send you spam.

superscaper

I personally bought a domain name and then give everyone I register with a unique email address, so far I've not had any spam to those specific email addresses, eg if I was registering with HSBC I would use hsbc @ mydomain.co.uk. At least if there is any spam I would know who was responsible for giving away my information.

tomstickland

I've got my own domain name and configurable email.
Maybe I could allocate an email address per website and then set them to all autoforward to my current "main" address.

superscaper

Mine is set up so when I access my "main" root email address for the domain anything that is sent to that domain gets forwarded to the main address. That way you don't actually have to set up the individual email addresses, you can make up anything you want @mydomain.co.uk and it will forward to the main address.

tomstickland

Sounds like a great idea, I'm going to do it.

redux

you could do similar with googlemail addresses - once you've got one you could invite yourself, and set up forwarding between them

Zed_Ex

Yeah also never click on the unsubcribe links of the bottom of unsolicited emails as this will tell them your email address is real and you will get more. Best to mark them as junk or create rules in outlook to filter them out.

You can filter emails via content such as the ones containing the word viagra using the outlook filtering system. Be careful with this tho as making rules for things suck as xxx could stop thinks like your wife emailing you happy birthday with kisses (xxx) on getting through and no reply will mean, no kisses for a while.