Controlling Spam

[[JiF]Beej1024]

I've been on the hunt for something to slow the onslaught of SPAM I receive every day.. I've tried the client side application from various companies without success. At work I run GFI Mail Essentials which does a great job, but I cant use it for my own domain email.

I was listening to a podcast this weekend and they mentioned a service called http://www.onlymyemail.com/home/index.php? . Basically you give it your POP info, it hits your email, downloads it, processes it for SPAM, and then you POP an account that they deposit your already scanned mail into. So far now in 4 days, I have not received any SPAM. There is a free trial, and after that it's $4 a month.

There is a delay in getting your mail of about 2 minutes from the time it hits your "real" POP account, to when OnlymyEmail pops ur account to download and scan the messages. So far I have not found this to be an issue. There are tools to allow you to whitelist, and also you can look at emails it trapped and whitelist there if something got zapped you want.

Early on I am very happy with the results. I was getting about 150 SPAM messages a day, and now I am down to none.


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[[JiF]rIot]

The company I work for should look into that, we have been getting rediculous amounts of "stock market tip" spam, its getting rediculous.

[[JiF][AARP]Grimp]

I use my ISPs spam filter. If your ISP has spam filtering set up an email account with them. Set the spam settings using their webmail. Forward your own domain email to it instead of using your domain providers POP and then set up your client to set your reply address to your own domain email address. Its free that way

[[JiF]Mike]

I've been using Symantec Brightmail at work for 2 years now and couldn't be happier. It's a solution for an organization, not really an individual but thought someone might be interested. We pay about $25/mailbox per year. Since April of last year it has processed 78,925 emails and blocked 59,700 (76%). To our knowledge we have not had a single false positive in the 2 years we have been running it. This last year I started using a black-list alongside Brightmail which blocks about 600-900 messages per day before they even reach the Brightmail filter. Besides knocking out spam, Brightmail takes care of emails with viruses too, but that portion has only blocked 40 mails since last April. That number was a lot higher last year, something like 30% of the email we got had a virus. My thought is that the blacklist is blocking a lot of messages that contain viruses while Brightmail is taking out the spam. I just wish my domains were covered under Brightmail...I still get a lot of spam on those accounts even with the blacklist protecting them.

[[JiF]bigjohnson]