Ggrrrrrr...spam Mail , How To Get Rid Of It.

[dieseldick]

[email protected]

i am getting pornographic and spammy mail from the above sender, i have filtered my mailbox settings but i am still getting them everyday.

annoying !!!!

[Buenchico]

If you're using an email client (such as Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird) the free version of Mailwasher should solve your problem:
http://www.mailwasher.net/

If you're using a web-based service you'll have to consider changing your email address. You can then get mail from your old address automatically forwarded. That will initially include the spam but either the filters in your new system will be better at deleting it or you can simply wait until everyone knows your new address and then turn off the forwarding.

Remember that spammers often configure their software to guess at possible email addresses. For example, it's highly likely that they'll get some success in sending mail if they send it to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc, etc. Quite a few of such 'guessed' addresses will actually exist. So you should ensure that your email address is 'unguessable'. (e.g. [email protected]).

If you want a new email address I can highly recommend GMX:
http://www.gmx.co.uk/

[dieseldick]

thanks, ive just got a new official email addy from microsoft, hotmail.com .

i was using gmail but i dont like the way gmail stocks all replies together making them difficult to read and generally sort out.

[Tuvok]

You can turn off conversation view in gmail - and in other email providers.

I hate conversation view!

[bazwillrun]

the best thing to do is get a domain name and an email package to go with it.
Dirt cheap, no concidence that my domain linked emails get hardly any spam compared to all my yahoo, google, outlook email addys.
Using google , yahoo etc is a waste of time because they are easy for the spammers...as youve found out

[dieseldick]

baz you need to pay for a domain name and you need to pay per year for a company to host it. expensive enough just for an email addy ?

[bazwillrun]

Its not even the cost of a pint of beer a month !.