Stopping Spam

thehappyotter · Post by **thehappyotter** » 02 Nov 2006, 17:11

I'm getting no end of spam on the cbfiles email address and it's getting a tad boring sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Does anyone have any recomendations on stopping it?

I'm perfectly happy with my size and don't need a helping hand thank you very much...

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 02 Nov 2006, 17:14

I've been getting a lot of crap to do with stocks/shares lately.

After looking at the Thunderbird spam filter, it seems you can mark certain emails as junk and it starts to learn what is good and what isn't. It's got rid of a few for me before I've seen them.

Maybe give that a go?

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 02 Nov 2006, 18:04

There are various programs that can sit between your mail server and your e-mail client trying to work what you want from the crap - they all need training to improve their accuracy.

I used to use Popfile http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ before BTInternet put a reasonable spamfilter in place. Popfile needs some manual setting up (basically it labels suspect spam and you use the e-mail client to filter those into a junk folder).

I did try McAfee Spamkiller once but it felt like a major application, rather than something just getting on with the job. Abandoned that and went back to Popfile.

There are other free programs out there to try, and if you want to spend money Inboxer is recommended by PCPro magazine (Davy Winder).

Post by **TSR2** » 02 Nov 2006, 19:43

I've just updated my Trend to the 2007 version which includes an excellent spam filter, and the ones it doesn't detect you can click on "report spam" and it sends the details back to trend so they can investigate it and included it in future updates if its genuine!

Well worth the cash.

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 02 Nov 2006, 19:50

* Egg and bacon
* Egg, sausage and bacon
* Egg and spam
* Egg, bacon and spam
* Egg, bacon, sausage and spam
* Spam, bacon, sausage and spam
* Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam
* Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam
* Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
* Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam
* Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in the ProvenÃ§ale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle patÃ©, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam

(Sorry, couldnt resist when I saw the title and we could do with a few laughs round here at the moment I think

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Post by **Rick Piper** » 02 Nov 2006, 20:31

Beans are off!

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 02 Nov 2006, 22:41

...but the Lobster thermidor isnt?

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 02 Nov 2006, 22:51

Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Post by **Garry Russell** » 02 Nov 2006, 22:51

I ordered a Spam filters....not Spam fritters

:huf:

Garry

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 02 Nov 2006, 23:00

'Otter,

Are any of your email addresses visible or encoded into your site's HTML files? If so I would remove them and then change the email addresses with your host as a first measure. Most harvesting programs need to read the address from somewhere. I have found that a graphical representation of the email address (e.g. a GIF that appears as text) provides a compromise that allows legitimate users to see your address but harvesters cannot.

Another tactic, if you do need to include the email address in your sites HTML pages, add ".no.spam" onto the end and any mails automatically sent to it will be undelivered. Legitimate users will hopefully realise they need to delete this from the address for their emails to work.

Other than that, the suggestions above, along the lines of spam filtering by your email client or webmail server are probably the way forward. I too am receiving a lot of crap about stocks and shares via one or two "webmaster@" email addresses that are created automatically by my host which I cannot do much about :sad: One thing that never lets me down though is the "delete" key

Toby