Thanks Paul, I use iinet and MSOutlook. Is Mailwash freely available?
I send most of my junk emails to submit@spam.acma.gov.au especially if it is someone looking for my details. Others if I think I can safely unsubscribe I will, but otherwise if someone is sending me something to sell or newsletter, they will give up at some stage. Occassionally I have contacted the company to inform them to stop sending. The reply above is a good one to put it in an envelope and send if they have a physical address. I have on aoocassion put a reply in large capitals and that will often get their attention. A vexing problem of the times unfortunately.
After decades (yes spam is that old) of trying multiple ways to reduce the spam, as you can never completely stop it, I decided on an unusual but so far effective approach. I simply find out the contact address of the company being advertised in the spam (by visiting their webpage), and send them a form letter email. In the form letter I advise them that I am happy to read any advertising emails they send me, either directly or through an agency, bulk emailer or any other means. I then advise them that this is in fact a service provided by me and set a date of around 2 weeks from my email to them. I tell them that any emails I receive after that date I will read at the rate of AU$30.00 per email, as any emails sent to me advertising their company is an acceptance of the terms and conditions of my reading service. The email is a little more detailed than what Iâve posted here, but suffice to say I no longer receive emails that I donât want from companies such as Readers Digest, etc. Of course it wonât work for small companies and the Viagra type spam, but most of those types end up in the spam folder anyway.
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I donât know Jack about junk emails BUT ads on yahoo, ebay, BOM etc screens can be got rid of with adblock. Its a down load. Its a good feeling to see some BS masquerading as an email get blown away while I watch.
If you use outlook go to Tools ------>Options------->Emails ------>Junk Email and then Choose the Level of email protection you want. Select High. Works pretty well for me.
Iâve fixed this problem for me by using 2 email addresses. I use one for signing up to things that could turn into Spam and the other for personal / professional and buying things.
If Iâm not sure - i use my goes to my alt email. I check it once a week. I send Groupon emails and Facebook/Twitter alerts type stuff here as well.
I do not use Desktop based email, but I have found Gmail has an âunsubscribe and reportâ button that is very handy. If something slips through to my gmail/personal account, I simply click on that button and I never see it again.
Finally, I have sound some businesses websites ask you if they can send you marketing emails in a surrupticious place. Find that, tick no, and that helps as well.
Good luck!
I use MS Outlook. For any email I receive that looks a bit suspect I add it to my blocked senders. I then go in to my Junk Email settings and check the list of blocked senders. I view the detail of the one that I have added.
If it is a legitimate email, I remove it from the blocked list and then retrieve it from the junk folder.
However, if it should be blocked, I look at the domain name. If it is an obscure name then I will edit the entry to just leave the domain name. So say I have blocked cheapviagra@xxx.com I would edit this entry to @xxx.com which then blocks everything from this domain. So if something is then sent from bluepills@xxx.com it will also be blocked.
Of course you wouldnât edit the individual entry if the domain is @gmail.com
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You have to unsubscribe from the sites you do not want
Unsubscribing can be a two edged sword. If the email is from a reputable source I am sure your request will be actioned. If it isnât from a good source then all you have done is confirmed your email address is a âliveâ one and you will get more junk ones as your address is sold on to others.
So first check before clicking the unsubscribe link. If it truly is a junk email just delete it.
But have you thought of using disposable email (masked) addresses? When you have to use an email address to register or use a site you can generate a disposable email address and then if you start getting junk mail you just delete the masked address and no more junk emails come in. The masked email address sends the email to your real mail address but acts like a middle man giving you a point at which you can halt the unwanted traffic. I personally use Blur from Abiene https://www.abine.com/maskme/emails/ which offers unlimited free masked email addresses but there are others out there. I have no affiliation with Abiene other than being a customer and they do have a premium service which does cost money but I only use the free services. So if you do think about signing up with them do be careful to just try the free stuff first before you spend any money.
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Very informative; thank you, I will look into it:-)
Thanks, I have just increased my screening from low to high; so will see how that works. Thanks again.
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Thank you, have increased filter from low to high.Thanks!
Garry, also spamex.com also gives you 254 email addresses that you can use for about $18 per year. You go to their site and construct an email address to use. When I need to supply an email address for a new site I try to incorporate some of their name into the new email address I will supply them with, So if I needed to give Woolworths an email addressI would go to Spamex and setup an email address such as : fromwoolies@spamex.com.
This is very helpful in later identifying if that company onsells your email address. If that email address suddenly starts receiving lots of spam you can go back to the spamex site and turn off that email address. I also have an emergency email address that I have setup for when I am out and need to give an email address.
I used Mailwasher for a long time and found it very good. But I took time to also learn how to use the email rules in Outlook that can scan the body of the emails you get for specific words or phrases. But those specific rules are not available on Outlook Express, only Outlook.
To access these rules you have to open the email, then in the ribbon above that has things like âReplyâ or âReply Allâ if you scan across the ribbon you will see how particular actions are grouped. Look for the group that has >> âMoveâ âRulesâ and âActionsâ in it. Click on âRulesâ this will open a small text box and then click on âAdvanced Optionsâ and look at all the things this Wizard will use. In particular are the group âwith specific wordsâ , either in the message, the body, recipientâs address or senders address. This is a very powerful set of rules that you can continually work on and improve.
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What we really need is an app that automatically generates a secure (via Proxy server?) an essentially nonsense reply back the source of the spam email, that way the spammers get a taste of their own medicine. That would soon fix the problem.
Unfortunately a lot of spam is forged and you would be sending flames and bounces to innocent parties who had their email addresses used by the spammers.
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I can only add that it is a good idea to use your IP provided email address for private and personal. Use gmail etc for all other things such as registering on web forums, social activism sites, facebook (FB is the worst) and other social media sites. That way all the spam will end up in your gmail account and the spam to your IP supplied email addy will eventually dry up.
Please do use the filtering methods which others have stated as this is what i do as well.
I disagree on using gmail address for forums/online registrations etc, as I use my gmail email as my main personal account and for never registering with online services ,the reason is I have had a internet access since 1993 and moved ISP many times so my ISP email address always changes but my gmail address is always the same. Most of my old ISPs are long gone and if they are still around once you are no longer a customer then you cannot access you email account. think of it like porting your mobile phone number to new providers but the number stays the same.
Try remembering to tell all your contacts and necessary commercial interactions your new email address every time you move ISP is a pain and sometimes can cost with lost access to necessary business activities.
Report them individually to Spamcop every day. Takes a little time, but worth it.
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Does Spamcop send suspect email to the junk file? I am just a bit concerned in case it blocks valid mail. Thanks
Thank you but I donât have gmail.
