Ray Davison wrote:
Sanpam wrote:
My wife and I have separate SM email accounts, using Time Warner
Roadrunner. She gets lots of spam emails, while I don't get any.
What would cause this, and how do I fix her account to not get
spam?
There are various estimates of the amount of mail traffic that is
SPAM. They are all over fifty percent. In the early days we tried
to filter out SPAM. But you will always be in reactive mode.
Setting the junk flag and then deleting does train SM to set the flag
for you. Then go to Tools > Delete mail marked as junk.
Charter, in general does not filter incoming, and I do not want them
deciding what I want and what I don't. But if I resend an add to my
wife's machine, Charter stops that.
So, I filter what I want to keep to a variety of folders and
sub-folders, and that leaves the inbox mostly stuff I do not want,
and is easy to deal with. I now have about a hundred folders, and it
is rare that any but the inbox get SPAM.
The fix for your wife's account, is to create a new account, get
everyone using the new, and then delete the old. That is not
practical for me - too many senders to notify - so see above.
Since I run a business that depends on the public being able to contact me, I
have no chance of keeping my email address secret from spammers -- even from
the really lazy ones.
For years I used Seamonkey's junk mail controls as a supplement to "Spam
Assassin" which my domain host provided at no cost.
Both systems are valuable but require quite a fair amount of attention if you
want them to work effectively.
Out of desperation, I tried "SpamStopsHere" from Greenview Data. It worked so
well that I now have Greenview host my email, which is actually cheaper than paying for
SpamStopsHere to work with your existing email host.
I could NEVER go back!
Not being the trusting sort on something so critical to me, I still monitor the
emails that get blocked (every day or two when I have some down time). Most
weeks go by without a single email I want to see being blocked. When that does
happen (typically with a newsletter that some people would consider spam), I
whitelist the sender's address so it doesn't get blocked again.
Most people would find this solution overkill, especially if their email host
already provides acceptable spam filtering, or if they can keep their email
address secret. But for my situation, I wish I had know about this five or ten
years ago; it's not even in the same league as Spam Assassin or the adaptive
junk controls that are built in to Seamonkey.
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