Software for blocking unwanted e-mails.

Does anyone know of a good software program for blocking out unwanted e-mails. Thanks, JRF

What email program you using now? Most email program has some form of blocking. The hard part is knowing what to block. Blocking mail except from know people is not going to work if you want to carry on with people on the net. Blocking by content can stop a lot of spam. Your never going to get rid of it all, but you can clean a bit up.

Invent the program that can do it all, intelligently, and you can retire [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Seriously, you can block some via your email client's "mail rules", but it's a game...the spammers continuously find new ways to hit your inbox. We block many at the email server level...so many that we are now blocking several million IP addresses, but they still stream in [img]/forums/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

good luck. my filter box is full and it still keeps comming. I hate it too, but its part of email i guess.
Larry

The best thing you can do is NEVER give out your real email address to any website, with few exceptions. My real email address is set up for this website and I really don't get much spam, but my work email gets about 100 or more spams a day, probably because I have registered for this and that. What happens is that people scan these sites for addresses and then put them in their databases.

If people didn't buy stuff from spam then there wouldn't be continous use of this method. If I see a product advertised in unsolicited email, then I will go out of my way to make sure I don't buy that product.

What really raises my blood pressure is the graphic porn that I get on my work email address. At least 10 pornographic pictures a day. This should be illegal.

I use postini.com. It costs a bit but is very effective. It has cut spam from 20-30 a day down to 1 or 2 every few days.
Oddly, I will get a flurry of a couple a day and then it catches up and that stops.

Harry K

Most email program allow you to set up rules or filters to capture much of the junk. But these spammers are creative and you need to keep analyzing what gets through and improve your rules. I use MS Outlook and have the rules set to scan incoming mail and move it to the Deleted folder if it meets my criteria. I have gotten into the habit of checking the deleted folder before I log off just to make sure nothing got moved that I want to keep. Logging off empties the Deleted folder.

Alan is correct about not giving out your email address. I have two addresses. Although all of my email is sent from one address, I use the other address whenever I need to give out an email address. I never get spam to the address that I send from... it all goes to the one I give out.

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This is 100% great information.

However, in my job, I am required to answer emails from a specific administrative email address, one that has NEVER been given out to anyone; it is used ONLY for domain name registrations. This address has NEVER subscribed to anything. Yet, I receive 30-40 emails/day to this address, all of which say "you have opted in". Well, I never opted into anything, as there is no mail sent out from this address.

The mistake I made was registering the domain names with Network Solutions (now Verisign)....they sell the email addresses to the spammers.