Fed up with email rubbish

[jo90]

For several weeks I have ben bombarded with emails from investment companies trying to get me to check out various investments. God knows why this has suddenly stated but does anyone know how to stop them coming in?

[Silvabod]

Simplest way is to get the program "Mailwasher"
Set it to load at start-up, then keep it running - it has its own spam filter (automatically marks for deletion the "known" spam). It LISTS (does not download) your e_mail headers and senders, so you can immediately mark spam or unwanted messages you know are spam (and, blacklist the sender) Equally, you can create a "friends" list.

When you then click "E-mail" program" on the toolbar, all the messages pre-marked for deletion are deleted from the ISP server, you only download "real" mail.
Also, you can/preview/read text messages (but not attachments) and do a quick reply (and mark for deletion) without downloading them - just delete after reading.

Excellent program - only thing is, rememberr to use your real e_mail prog off-line, close it immedioately after use (Reason - Mailwasher checks for mail every 10 minutes (default, can be changed). But, so does Outlook Express - so if you have both running, you will bypass Mailwasher and continue to get spam.

[jo90]

Thanks Silvabod for that, I'll give it a go.

[SpyWriter]

With Outlook Express you can block senders (whole or part name) or particular words in the title box