E-mails, is it possible.....

Terrysdelight

Hi

Just wondering, I get so fed up with all the junk email that comes into my inbox - you order something off line and that's it, bingo - you start receiving junk email. I've had the same email address for years so, over time it's got far worse and it's hard work looking out for stuff which is important.

Is there anyway I can restrict what comes into the inbox. Say, if the email address is not in my 'contacts', send the email straight to spam?

At least if it goes to spam, I can glance through it every now and then but then it will keep my inbox for important stuff.

Many thanks

gb12345

Terrysdelight wrote: »

Hi

Just wondering, I get so fed up with all the junk email that comes into my inbox - you order something off line and that's it, bingo - you start receiving junk email. I've had the same email address for years so, over time it's got far worse and it's hard work looking out for stuff which is important.

Is there anyway I can restrict what comes into the inbox. Say, if the email address is not in my 'contacts', send the email straight to spam?

At least if it goes to spam, I can glance through it every now and then but then it will keep my inbox for important stuff.

Many thanks

That really depends on who you use for your email, as they all provide differing levels of spam filtering.

Terrysdelight

gb12345 wrote: »

That really depends on who you use for your email, as they all provide differing levels of spam filtering.

It's Sky. They've now gone to Ymail. I can see filter options but basically I'd have to set up a new filter for every bit of spam.

I guess I'll have to change my email address.

Who can I set one up with that has the option of receiving from authorised contacts only?

Many thanks

bcl999

have ben using spst.com for a couple of years. It is not free. It is billed in US$ I think it works out about £1 a week but I cosider it good value for the hassle it saves me.

gb12345

bcl999 wrote: »

have ben using spst.com for a couple of years. It is not free. It is billed in US$ I think it works out about £1 a week but I cosider it good value for the hassle it saves me.

You've either given the wrong URL or this is a very strange spam attempt:rotfl:.

spst.com belongs to a company that "produces high quality specialty fasteners, assemblies and precision components for critical applications throughout the world." don't see any mention of email protection on there.

gb12345

Terrysdelight wrote: »

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Who can I set one up with that has the option of receiving from authorised contacts only?

Many thanks

I know that AOL allow you to do this, but I don't think any others do.

But do you really want to limit the mail that severely - it could have negative affects. Say you bank with XYZ and they send you fraud warnings from the address fraud-warning@xyzbank.com, but they decide to change their email address to fraudwarning@xyzbank.com all your fraud warnings would dissapear to spam until you update your contact list.

It would be better to gradually build up filters using ymail or gmail, by blocking the domains (rather than individual addresses) of companies that spam you - more work but safer. Also Gmail is a lot better at spotting spam and phishing mails so a lot will be caught without you doing anything.

tyllwyd

I've got a fastmail account that I pay for, which has Bayesian spam filtering to improve your spam filtering over time, and it does offer 'whitelist' filtering which only lets in people from your contact book. (They used to do a free account but got bought out by opera so now the free accounts are myopera ones, which I've never tried.)

Neil49

Is YMail Yahoo?

If it is then you can set up disposable addresses linked to your main account but with a completely different user name followed by a hypen and then a name/subject to narrow it down. You can set up 500 sub accounts doing this and if you start to get spam on one you simply delete it.

You can then setup a separate folder to act as a junk inbox for all these to drop into.

This doesn't help with existing spam but it will help reduce it in the future.

Just click on Mail Options to access this feature.

yangptangkipperbang

Get your own domain. Give everyone you deal with a different email address, eg:

MSE@terrysdelight.co.uk
Sky@terrysdelight.co.uk
[email]BT@terrysdelight.co.uk............etc[/email], etc,

You can then block any email from people you don't want to hear from.
If a "good" email address is hacked by spammers you just block it and tell that person you now have a new email address, eg:- MSE2@terrysdelight.co.uk

Gillor

Terrysdelight wrote: »

Is there anyway I can restrict what comes into the inbox. Say, if the email address is not in my 'contacts', send the email straight to spam?

You can do exactly this with Mozilla Thunderbird by setting up a "whitelist" containing of all your known/approved contacts. All communications you receive from any other source i.e. not on your whitelist, will automatically be blacklisted and go straight to your spam/junk folder for you to review at your leisure. If you want to "legitimise" any item in your spam folder simply add it to your whitelist.

I have had this set up now for a couple of years and, having previously struggled unsuccessfully with so-called spam filters, this works 100%.

If I recall it takes a bit of fathoming out to set up initially (well it did for me anyway) but if you want to give it a try give me a shout.

Cornucopia

To get domain hosting with unlimited email addresses (even if they are re-directs) may not be that cheap an option.