If you are running OSX.... May I suggest SpamSieve? You'll still get the emails, but the SpamSieve/Emailer team will either color them brown, or file them in a folder named "Spam".
If you're not running OSX, you still have several ways to filter that spam. SpamFire goes around your regular email program & checks your Pop mailbox itself. It deletes the spam, and puts the good email back so your regular email program can pick them up. Ah, but you mentioned AOL, which doesn't use a regular POP3 mailbox. Time to break out the power tools. Claris Emailer can check both AOL & Pop mail, AND Emailer has a "redirect" feature. So here's how to use SpamFire to filter your AOL mail: * Set up a new pop mailbox for yourself at your ISP. (dcr.net) you may already have one. If you want to keep your AOL mail separate, just set up an additional pop mailbox. * set up Emailer to check your AOL mail on schedule * Set up a mail action in Emailer for all mail coming into the AOL account.. it gets redirected to your new POP mailbox. * Ok, now that mail is somewhere that SpamFire can deal with it. Let SpamFire filter it, and especially at first, keep an eye on the SpamFire program's mail log to make sure it's doing the right thing. * set up Emailer to check that new mailbox, but let SpamFire in there more often, and first. SpamFire comes in Mac OS 9 & Mac OSX versions. You can try before you buy. I'm using both right now, on different accounts. Both work differently, and have different strengths, but both seem to be helping a lot. SpamSieve: http://www.c-command.com/spamsieve/ SpamFire: http://www.matterform.com/frames/spamfire/index.php Hope this helps. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix On 9/29/03 3:03 PM, Charles Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] tapped the keyboard to say: >>I agree that it would probably be helpful is we could catch & punish >>malicious emailers, but it's very difficult to identify the true >>perpetrator, and in some cases, the emails actually are sent by the >>virus-controlled computer belonging to an unknowing victim. It would not >>help anything to prosecute the innocent. > >I wish there was some way to do something about it, since AOL is sending >me 100-300 messages a day telling me my mail is returned when I haven't >SENT them anything! ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
