Reclaiming an ultra-spammed email account?

McLovin · 5 Nov 2007 at 19:37

My email account from my service provider gets more spam than I have ever seen. I get about 1000 emails a week, all spam. Which has rendered the account useless as i only access the account through the service providers website and the spam filter only works when you type in words that you want blocked. Problem is the spam is usually jumbled words. So its useless.

I used to have it linked to my outlook express but its not anymore and i cant remember how. If i link it again will windows take care of the spam?

Will_3rd · 5 Nov 2007 at 19:39

Can't you set it up so only people in your address book get messages delivered to your inbox.

Berserker · 5 Nov 2007 at 19:42

Ask your service provider if they have any spam countermeasures in place. Some (and the number is growing) do. Won't kill all of them, but it will deal with some.

PS - I get roughly the same number, though various countermeasures either from the provider or me bring that down to the one or two a day that I actually see.

McLovin · 5 Nov 2007 at 19:51

Berserker said:
Ask your service provider if they have any spam countermeasures in place. Some (and the number is growing) do. Won't kill all of them, but it will deal with some.

PS - I get roughly the same number, though various countermeasures either from the provider or me bring that down to the one or two a day that I actually see.

Thanks for the tip, ill get in contact and see what they have to say.

McLovin · 5 Nov 2007 at 20:23

Actually, while this threads here, anyone know how i would go about using my outlook express to retrieve emails from the service provider i did it before but now i cant remember??

basmic · 5 Nov 2007 at 20:28

I'd use MailWasher to download the emails, when you get the account details sorted out.

From then on, leave Mailwasher running in the background checking for mail every five minutes. If any does come through and it's junk, just tell Mailwasher to bounce it back to sender and delete it. :cool:

Andri · 5 Nov 2007 at 20:33

in outlook all you need are the pop3 settings and the smtp settings to send mail. your ISP faq should have the details.

Outlook doesn't actually filter spam that well. it works on the same basis of content filtering so specific words and phrases and even blocking sender addresses but these can be spoofed rendering it useless.

your best best is to contact your ISP.

Morlan · 5 Nov 2007 at 21:24

McLovin said:
I used to have it linked to my outlook express but its not anymore and i cant remember how. If i link it again will windows take care of the spam?

Have you considered using POP with a Gmail account? Google do a fine job filtering spam.