Spam SOLUTION????

[Superior Shine]

I am getting over 400 spam emails a day!! They are to my business email so I can just sign up for another. Is there anything I can do to rid my mail box of SPAM? ?

[Derrick]

Re: Spam SOLUTION????

I have been running into alot of that as well and the only thing i can see to do is increase the security of your email so when people send you emails they have to type in the letters that appear in a picture to help filter out most spammers and also watch where you advertise your business and email address online because after i posted on Craigslist with my email address on the add i started getting alot more spam.

[PorscheGuy997]

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Hey Joe,

Are you using Outlook Express? There are some little tricks to delete the spam.

[FHerrera]

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try activating Spam assesin function on your domain cpanel, or you can try migrating your mail to mozilla thunderbird, it catches Spam better than outlook

[jfelbab]

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You could run your own email server and block the IP ranges for all the countries you don't do business with. A lot of spam comes from outside the US. If you don't want to do your own e-mail server you could change hosting to a company that does a better job of blocking spam. You can do things with your email client to automatically delete those emails that are clearly spam.

[PorscheGuy997]

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Here is what I do with Outlook Express:

1. Go to 'Tools' at the top of the program
2. Select 'Message Rules' and click on 'Mail'
3. In the first area, check the box for 'Where the Subject line contains specific words'
4. In the second area, check the box for 'Delete It'
5. In the third area, click on the blue typing that says 'contains specific words'
6. Start typing in the words that are most commonly used in spam message titles. I would list them, but it's pretty explicit.

Now for deleting messages that contain certain words in the message, check 'Where the message body contains specific words' in step 3 and repeat the next steps.

[Nappers]

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IF you don't respond to them, they will cycle throught and slow down. We would get up to 100 a day but now we hardly get anything. Thats what our IT guys told me, don't respond and let it cycle out. We got them from kids signing up for stuff on the internet and using our email address. Like 7up prizes, pepsi whatever.

It's frustrating.

Aaron

[C30-Mike]

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1st. File complaint to your e-mail hosting company (if they are hosting your mail)
2nd. See if you can use MS Outlook 2003 client (junk mail filter is included)
3rd. If you are using Outlook to get mail, buy a 3rd party spam filter (I suggest I Hate Spam)
I Hate Spam has excellent filter rate.

[AeroCleanse]

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I am getting over 400 spam emails a day!! They are to my business email so I can just sign up for another. Is there anything I can do to rid my mail box of SPAM? ?

I run my business accounts though Gmail. Yes you can use your own domain name.

www.google.com/a should get you there.

[Superior Shine]

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I set it up to bounce all emails back with this -

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

:
216.219.210.210 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 553 5.3.0 ... user No Such User
Giving up on 216.219.210.210.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path:
Received: (qmail 16686 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2008 22:49:30 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO 22A1279F7EE14446) xxxxxxxx@verizon.net@61.129.62.218 with login)
by smtp103.vzn.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2008 22:49:30 -0000
X-YMail-OSG: 4O4P9HEVM1moJwZ0kzFmZu4YxeKR7HrSHzVRz_cx30MSbtgyHaxIMrwRKQjAQYHTPm9LAekqF7OylNYksMoUdsOunRhEI0mrKqYEuKzd_BWfAyKzSb.vFcyhXbUPAW0-
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
Message-ID: <001c01c8a8b8$fd914660$2f01a8c0@2S2A1279F7EE1496>
Reply-To: "Superior Shine"
From: "Superior Shine"
To: "Superior Shine"
References: <000a01c8a8b7$b64efad0$2f01a8c0@22A1279F8DD1496>
Subject: Re: you can be larger..
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:49:44 -0700
Organization: Superior Shine
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
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X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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[Mark2]

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I get alot of spam to my yahoo address also, terrible at stopping spam. Outlook isn't much better either. Gmail seems better than many others.

[C30-Mike]

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Looks like your e-mail got hijacked and being spoofed (backscatter attack). Happens very often.
Your ISP or mail hosting provider can block this attack easily with right type of filtering.

[Brian Catalano]

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I am getting over 400 spam emails a day!! They are to my business email so I can just sign up for another. Is there anything I can do to rid my mail box of SPAM? ?

I've been running my own domain for a very long time, and my main e-mail address got so bad, it was taking a looong time just to download and process the spam.

The free solution is rarely the best, but in this case Gmail really shines.

1) Set up your domain's mail server to relay each and every message to a Gmail account.

2) Set up your pop client to check your Gmail account to download the mail using the userid "recent:name@domain.com".

3) Keep using your regular SMTP server to send mail out using your public e-mail address.

I can't believe how well Gmail filters spam. I went from 400-500 spams a day down to 0 or 1 a day.

To keep things clean on your original mail server, I set up a 2nd Gmail account to download and delete all messages... otherwise your original mailbox will fill up.

To the techies out there who want to know why I didn't simply set up Gmail to retrieve the messages from the original server, you can't control how often Gmail retrieves mail from an external POP server. Sometimes it's up to every half hour. It's much quicker to just have every message forwarded through Gmail's front door as it arrives.

Brian

[Mike Phillips]

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Thanks for sharing this Brian...

[mpbsystem]

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