spam email!!!!

[oldman34]

has anyone got any good solutions for spam email?

preferably free software, add-ons etc...

[chrestomanci]

Spamassassin

On my linux box (setup with Postfix, Spamassain, Dovecot, and Squirrelmail), I get about 4 spams a week in my inbox. Another 50 or so (per week) are delivered to a maybe folder for manual checking. Another 2,000 or so are automatically discarded to digital oblivion.

[peterb]

As chrestomanci says. However if you are using a client system, look at the services offered by whover hosts your mail server. they may offer a spam filtering serce so that saves you downloading it before your spam filter defines it as spam.

[oldman34]

some other forums have pointed me towards sites like:

mailinator.com
cleanzer.com

are these also useful? would you guys use them?

[watercooled]

Yeah I use mailinator from time to time, it can be very useful. Just bear in mind you can't send from it, it's not password protected so don't use it for anything private and emails are deleted every few hours.

[oldman34]

i tried out both and i have to say i thought cleanzer was quite good, probably better than mailinator. its a similar service but its password secure and you get to keep all the emails. you cant send anything either but you can forward messages. if you use mailinator maybe worth having a look at cleanzer.

cheers though

[dirky]

Pull it through a gmail account?

[oldman34]

how do you do that?

[jim]

Depends what the source of the email is - i.e. if it's from your domain, or if it's going to a third-party email provider

[dirky]

yeah basically there are different levels of gmail accounts but you can sign up then get it to pull in the email via imap/pop3 and you collect/check it via pop3/imap/web on google servers.

[oldman34]

oh fair enough...i'll have to check that out although I'm not quite sure exactly what you mean lol.

thanks though

[dirky]

ok well consider this, you have an email account with www.isp.com but you are getting alot of spam. So you sign up for gmail with oldman@gmail.com, now you can configure gmail to collect your email from pop3.isp.com and then you configure your mail client/phone/etc to collect mail from gmail instead of isp.com. This makes use of gmail's spam filtering but still lets you reply/answer emails to oldman@isp.com

Any clearer?

[oldman34]

yeah i get that...it sounds really useful actually.

thanks for all your help