Nick, Using Gmail (or Google Apps) means you get Google's spam and virus filtering automatically. The spam filtering from Google is the most accurate I've come across - it filters out all the bad, with only an occasional spam email (maybe 1 or 2 per month, sometimes none) coming through. When that happens, if you're using the webmail interface you just press the Report Spam button and it goes away - it seems Google acts on spam reports, as you don't get the same spam again.
If you are using your own domain name for mail, you can set up an SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record to stop spammers sending email using your address - this is how to set one up if you are using Google Apps: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33786 Regards, Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: 2010/1/11 Nicholas Pyers <[email protected]>: > > On 06/01/2010, at 5:29 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >> Hi Nicholas, >> >> Have you thought of using a proxy email service to filter your email? >> In this approach, a special server checks your email, runs a spam filter, >> and holds back suspected spam. >> You configure Mail to connect to this proxy server, rather than to your >> ISP, to retrieve your freshly laundered email. >> >> Examples of such services are Spam Zapper >> (http://www.no-junkmail.com/Individuals.html) >> and >> SaferSurf’s Spam Guard (http://www.nutzwerk.com/english/safersurf/). > > My email is currently hosted with pair.com > > Their junk e-mail filtering system now uses a separate server configuration > to handle junk e-mail filtering and includes filtering features such as > greylisting, the popular open-source software package SpamAssassin, and an > open-source e-mail virus scanner, ClamAntiVirus. They currently use a > customized version of SpamAssassin 3.2. > > http://www.pair.com/support/knowledge_base/e-mail/junk_e-mail_filtering_overview.html > > and it does filter a ton of spam out for me... but enough sneaks through and > mail doesn't recognise it as such... and yes considering it got past pair's > system I probably can't bitch about Apple's system. > > But I've seen others peoples mail through their normal ISPs mail servers and > I've seen that Mail handles spam that is apparently sent to you from > yourself or some else in your address book poorly :( > > > -- > Nicholas Pyers ([email protected]) > > "Heaven on Earth?" > "No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth!" > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
