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Dealing with spam.
I've recently gotten a tonne of spam. Using thunderbird does eliminate spam quite well when I'm on desktop pc and once I open thunderbird on pc it sits it all out. however when I sign in on my phone it's a flood of spam.
Thunderbird don't have a phone app
Other than leaving my pc on all day to deal with spam any solutions?
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Get a better email provider - one with spam filtering as standard so all suspect spam goes in a spammy spam folder
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On a serious note, I moved provider and it got a lot better.
I also route all my emails through an email app so don't get much at all in the main inbox.
Unsubscribe from any emails you don't want and are not dodgy. I have a busy inbox an don't appreciate crap emails.
And get an email that you would not mind deleting and use that for online services like confused or RAC membership etc.
I don't get actual emails in the spam box now which is key. it used to think my website enquiries were spam!!
Took me 2 weeks to work out why I was not getting any enquiries, bloody crap hosting.
Last edited by yourdj; 26-04-2016 at 09:30 PM.
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Yer I've got 3 email addresses I use mainly. Maybe worth setting up another just strictly for client contact.
Who are the good email providers for this? I'm just using a direct connection from the host using imap.
I also get loads from my live.co.uk and Hotmail accounts
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Originally Posted by
ukpartydj
Hotmail accounts
Thats probably the route of yer problem? I only use dedicated website emails, of which I have 6 I use and 3 I don't really need as they are not used domains (like my www.bogfrog.co.uk one). I only tend to get pain in the butt emails from other Hotmail users mainly. As per my host I got fished. not sure what that is but can grasp the main concept.
If their firewall is that bad then move to a decent host. Online rating sites are best for that.
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Originally Posted by
ukpartydj
Yer I've got 3 email addresses I use mainly. Maybe worth setting up another just strictly for client contact.
Who are the good email providers for this? I'm just using a direct connection from the host using imap.
I also get loads from my live.co.uk and Hotmail accounts
I have an OUTLOOK account only used for Contracts and quotes.
That seems to have avoided spam for a couple of years--other than previous customers who try to spam me with links to their money making scams
I have had a yahoo account since 2005 which does attract a lot of spam but has never let me down.
I would not go with g mail as some years ago suddenly my account got hacked and I could not access anything even using my secret personal information----terrible.
WHO ARE YOU -----FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Years later it suddenly became live again --go figure !!!!!
Last edited by CRAZY K; 27-04-2016 at 09:47 AM.
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Spam Assassin:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
Not sure about the phone side of things but it works great in Windows.
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