Morning peeps.
Well, I am finally at my wits end and I need your help on the amount of spam I'm getting. I am using Outlook at the moment as my email proggy and have that set up so that I can only receive emails from the UK, Oz, NZ and Itlay to help reduce the amount of emails that we usually get from our Nigerian 'friends'
That part is fine, however, I get a lot of emails about how 'Ratess will skyrocket soon' and that my 'Mortagge ratee approvedd' along with the usual 'Pre-Approved application# 69835703856948', and not forgetting the ones about 'oem software and why do I care' and how I can make myself 'more attractive to women'. The thing is, regardless of what filters I seem to put in place I still keep getting this junk For example, I put a filter in place that instructed outlook to delete from the pop server any emails with the word 'application' in the subject line and yet these buggers still appear in my inbox. Am I right in saying that if I instruct outlook to do that then I shouldn't even see those emails? I downloaded an evaluation of ihatespam but all that seems to do is tell me what I already know and that is that I have got spam in my inbox!
I really want to know what is the best way of getting rid of this rubbish so that it doesn't even hit my inbox? I know that I will have to train an application to do this but as long as it works then I'm okay with that. I just hate setting up all of these filters to have them do nothing at all.
I am seriously considering buying a new domain name and setting up outlook to only receive emails from people in my address book but I'd rather keep that money for beer
Any advice for me peeps?
Please
Al
Well, I am finally at my wits end and I need your help on the amount of spam I'm getting. I am using Outlook at the moment as my email proggy and have that set up so that I can only receive emails from the UK, Oz, NZ and Itlay to help reduce the amount of emails that we usually get from our Nigerian 'friends'
That part is fine, however, I get a lot of emails about how 'Ratess will skyrocket soon' and that my 'Mortagge ratee approvedd' along with the usual 'Pre-Approved application# 69835703856948', and not forgetting the ones about 'oem software and why do I care' and how I can make myself 'more attractive to women'. The thing is, regardless of what filters I seem to put in place I still keep getting this junk
For example, I put a filter in place that instructed outlook to delete from the pop server any emails with the word 'application' in the subject line and yet these buggers still appear in my inbox. Am I right in saying that if I instruct outlook to do that then I shouldn't even see those emails? I downloaded an evaluation of ihatespam but all that seems to do is tell me what I already know and that is that I have got spam in my inbox!I really want to know what is the best way of getting rid of this rubbish so that it doesn't even hit my inbox? I know that I will have to train an application to do this but as long as it works then I'm okay with that. I just hate setting up all of these filters to have them do nothing at all.
I am seriously considering buying a new domain name and setting up outlook to only receive emails from people in my address book but I'd rather keep that money for beer
Any advice for me peeps?
Please
Al