A cure for spam?

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:37 am

I supposse tha I am more than fedup with email crap as al of you are. So far noboby has developed a nice working solution to this plague.

From my point of view there is a possible fix to this flow of junk email:

Instead of give you a "non desired email" option, so you add, and add, and add..., non desired email, day after day. All email client should come with an option of desired email. So, by design, all email is considered crap, and hence rejectet. All you have to do is to add your desired email addresses. That I am sure are, by far, way less "than not desired email"

My question is:

Is there an email client out there that supports this option?

Thanks

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:12 am

That would be annoying, every time you want a new email you'd have to add them to the list, they do have blacka nd white lists on firewalls for email spam, real firewalls not the software ones you DL.

I use thunderbird for my email, it does real well for blocking spam, it learns from what you list as spam and it blocks all of it from me now.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:42 am

I know at least one person who does that..the very first time you send them an e-mail..you're forced to have it generate an approval notice that awaits his approval. After that, assuming he approves you, he can receive your e-mail.

However..it's high maitenance. And...wether this works for you or not depends on what you use your e-mail for.

IMO, one of the primary methods of keeping your e-mail clean, is to use a good e-mail host. There are so many anti-spam packages out there, but often they require maintenance, and occasionally looking for FPs. I don't have the time for that, nor do I want to support that with clients. So I flat out refuse to deal with 3rd party anti-spam packages. What I do use for my clients, the data center next door, he's a strategic partner we use for web/mail hosting, and managed bandwith. Anyways..he developed his own mail washing system which launders the mail for spam and viruses. I use him for a smart host for all my Exchange clients also..with port 25 on their firewall having an ACL only pointing to him..so their Exchange servers are much more secure.

Anyways...bottom line...use a good mail host. Costs more...yes, but you get what you pay for.

Other alternatives...use your own linux router..some of them have transparent proxy features which scrub your mail of spam and viruses, such as IPCop with Copfilter, or Endian.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:07 pm

I've been using Mailwasher pro for a few years now and love it for my pop accounts. I can make a friends list & about a million other options. It previews your mail before you even download it and gives you the choice to accept, delete, blacklist & bounce email with an easy check box and process mail click. Not perfect, but very handy. I love the bounce feature for pesky spammers.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:04 pm

Gort9k wrote:I supposse tha I am more than fedup with email crap as al of you are. So far noboby has developed a nice working solution to this plague.

From my point of view there is a possible fix to this flow of junk email:

Instead of give you a "non desired email" option, so you add, and add, and add..., non desired email, day after day. All email client should come with an option of desired email. So, by design, all email is considered crap, and hence rejectet. All you have to do is to add your desired email addresses. That I am sure are, by far, way less "than not desired email"

My question is:

Is there an email client out there that supports this option?

Thanks

All email clients already support what you are asking about. Outlook has RULES and Thunderbird has FILTERS. Just setup rules & filters.

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:02 pm

Thanks for your answers.

Of course I know that almost every email client has the facility to create rules. And it is true that they do its job. But, for instance, you set a rule to reject "viagra" messages; the next message comes with "v1agra", or "vihagra", of course you know what it is but your newly created rule doesn't filter it. And here you are creating rules and more rules...

So I'd gladly settled for a "reject all except..." rule.

Saludos

greEd · Post by **greEd** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:09 am

I've heard good things about Choicemail. For a client based option it may be worth a shot to try it out, and I think the single user version is free.

http://www.digiportal.com/

jeremyboycool · Post by **jeremyboycool** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:13 am

I have not had very much luck with outlooks rules. Any help? I want to set it so all emails of a certain address goes to a certain folder. My boss 62 is learning how to use the net for the frist time I want all his mail to go to his folder he didn't know about spam.

greEd · Post by **greEd** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:11 pm

jeremyboycool wrote:I have not had very much luck with outlooks rules. Any help? I want to set it so all emails of a certain address goes to a certain folder. My boss 62 is learning how to use the net for the frist time I want all his mail to go to his folder he didn't know about spam.

Create the new folder.
Go to Tools -> Rules and Alerts
Click New Rule
Leave the default click Next
Uncheck "from people or distribution list"
Check "with specific words in the recipients address"
On the bottom portion click the "specific words" link
Add in your bosses email theboss@boss.net
Click Add and Ok
Click the "specified" link
Choose the folder to put the messages click ok
Click Finish

Good Luck.