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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tyrian on March 20, 2007, 03:39:12 pm

Title: Spam Filters
Post by: Tyrian on March 20, 2007, 03:39:12 pm

My e-mail account has gotten a large increase in spam lately.  Normally, I would just create a new one and notify everyone on my list that my address has changed.  Unfortunately, due to some recent difficulties, that isn't an option right now.  I need a free spam filter that can be told to block e-mails from specific addresses.  The problem is that the spam mails all have the same address, yet my current spam filter doesn't block them, despite my categorizing them as spam.  This just needs to be a temporary fix.

Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: achtung on March 20, 2007, 11:44:38 pm

I think thunderbird can do something like that.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: jr2 on March 21, 2007, 03:05:35 am

I have a friend who uses Incredimail and swears by it, but I dunno the details... besides the fact that Incredimail is basically a modified version of Outlook Express.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: Fury on March 21, 2007, 04:43:36 am

I hate Incredimail. Fancy smilies and other garbage everywhere, I know instantly when I receive email from an Incredimail user at work. Makes me want to blacklist every one of them.

Go with Thunderbird, it has built-in spam filter.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: Ashrak on March 21, 2007, 06:18:45 am

yeah i agree with furry

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: jr2 on March 21, 2007, 11:56:03 am

Yeah, I know... that's my friend, though.  :)
I use webmail x 4 :D
Yahoo! (Beta) (http://mail.yahoo.com)
Hotmail (Windows Live! Mail) (http://www.hotmail.com)
Gmail (http://mail.google.com)
AIM Mail (http://mail.aim.com)
I don't have a problem with spam... well, lately, I've been getting extremely weird messages in my Spam folder on Yahoo.  (Of course, since they are in my Spam folder, no probs...) They appear to be semi-intelligible gibberish about mostly everything in general and nothing in particular, with an attachment... all from different users.  I have my security settings to not display pictures unless I tell it to, so this doesn't affect me, but I do wonder :wtf: is going on...

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: MP-Ryan on March 21, 2007, 12:13:11 pm

Thunderbird FTW.  You'll never go back.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: jr2 on March 21, 2007, 12:44:17 pm

Hey, can Tbird access those webmail accounts?

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: achtung on March 21, 2007, 12:45:33 pm

GMail is the only one that offers pop and smtp access.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: jr2 on March 21, 2007, 12:48:00 pm

Darn.. I figured as much.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: aldo_14 on March 21, 2007, 02:02:18 pm

Thunderbird can access yahoo email.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: Tyrian on March 21, 2007, 02:22:31 pm

Can Thunderbird access AOL e-mail?

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: achtung on March 21, 2007, 02:43:57 pm

Quote from: aldo_14 on March 21, 2007, 02:02:18 pm

Thunderbird can access yahoo email.

Explain.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: MP-Ryan on March 21, 2007, 03:35:35 pm

Thunderbird has a webmail extension that allows it to access Hotmail, Yahoo, etc etc.  Natively, it requires your email to have POP/IMAP functionality.

The extension is available off the Thunderbird Extensions page.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: aldo_14 on March 21, 2007, 04:12:06 pm

In the case of yahoo, or at least the .co.uk webmail, you can use the smtp / pop servers.  pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk (port 110) and smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk (port 587) specifically.  There was a point a while back where it went very flaky and you couldn't get anything that way, but it works perfectly now.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: achtung on March 21, 2007, 11:47:36 pm

I think you have to pay for "legit" pop and smtp access for .com mail.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: Sandwich on March 24, 2007, 07:16:58 am

GMail rocks. Spam filters are second to none. And, they're rolling out this feature where it can check emails from other POP3 accounts, so they can all be checked for spam by Gmail. :yes2:

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: Bob-san on March 24, 2007, 02:49:09 pm

I only wish the spam section didn't get bold when you get spam. Sort of like how Yahoo reports; You have 1 new message and 1843904809q84i3oj4q3948093q8473q408340######### spam messages.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: Sandwich on March 24, 2007, 03:24:46 pm

There's probably some filter you can set up to mark spam as read.

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: jr2 on March 24, 2007, 11:36:55 pm

Isn't there a "Mark as Read" button/link next to the folder?

Title: Re: Spam Filters
Post by: Bob-san on March 25, 2007, 10:35:38 am

No. No filters either.