Stopping Spam emails help please

ascollen

will try that on mine - it's gettin out of control!

onzey

This thread (particularly post #14) may be of interest where I described using OE rules to help with some spam.

cwoodham

I use MailWasher to check and delete all unwanted email on the servers before I download any email to my computer. That way you can get rid of any spam+attachments before it gets near your PC. The last freeware version (1.33) is available here:

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page2.html

Click on the Download link there not on the website link. MailWasher 1.33 allows you to check multiple email accounts if you have more than one. I check five. More recent versions dont. It also lets you set up filters to tag emails for deletion. For example you can set up a filter so that if the spam is not directly addressed to you (e.g. [EMAIL="gxtrdse@yourdomain.com"]gxtrdse@yourdomain.com[/EMAIL] instead of [EMAIL="yourname@yourdomain.com"]yourname@yourdomain.com[/EMAIL]) the email can be automatically tagged for deletion. It's not too difficult to set up and worth trying as its free. And best of all it stops the spam and any attachments from getting onto your PC.

By the way, dont bounce the spam in Mailwasher as it wont go back to the sender just to someone whose address has been forged. Just delete it.

HTH

nikibella

Hi all
there are two things you can do when one of your email accounts get out of control because of too much spam.
The easiest thing to do is remove it from your your regular email program (like outlook express), you can still check your emails and write them, by connecting to your provider's website and using the mail function and your password.
Another thing you can do (what I use regularly) is to instal a program like ICQ, set your pc on invisible, so you won't be disturbed by instant messages all the time and set the function of "check email on servers" (you find it in the "services"). When you connest to the net, before opening your email program wait until ICQ is connected, then you can check your mail there, cancel everything you don't want in your pc with a few clicks and then open your mail program.

murk11

HI there Getting The same Problem for a couple of weeks now,
Seems to me they are using a new program that inserts random letters into the message so

viagra turns into (todays example) VImAGRA VAmLIUM
Subject matter always changes as well (todays) RE: news 487

also return path and sender changes,

so folks any rule based filtering aint going to catch all the spam


Going to complain to a few server ISP but got a horrible feeling there Bouncing of legit servers

Really hope this dies off Soon

if I find out any more will post
Please do the same

All the best

James240

ive been hit with this type of spam i have set up mailing rules and i think i have practically every variation of word they use which covers nearly 200 variations lol and so everything goes in the deleted bin now very few get passed that and if they do i add them to the list

burbs_2

murk11 wrote:

HI there Getting The same Problem for a couple of weeks now,
Seems to me they are using a new program that inserts random letters into the message so

viagra turns into (todays example) VImAGRA VAmLIUM
Subject matter always changes as well (todays) RE: news 487

also return path and sender changes,

so folks any rule based filtering aint going to catch all the spam


Going to complain to a few server ISP but got a horrible feeling there Bouncing of legit servers

Really hope this dies off Soon

if I find out any more will post
Please do the same

All the best

Glad that someone else is receiving them as well, seems as though they are exactly the same. It has gone from 1 every day to around 8 a day now. Its annoying, im off to download Mailwasher