Drowning in spam

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granny

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OK I'm really getting fed up with it. I have, for over a year now, been deluged in spam. I'm getting 20-30 spam emails a day, most of them in html format, most of them pornographic. I've got upwards of 100 filtering rules set up but they're making very little difference.

Is there *anything* I can do about it? Is there any kind of service available that could reduce this flood? If I can't do anything about it I'm seriously considering having the email account in question disabled and getting the university to set me up a new one - but that would be a nightmare I could do without frankly.

It's got to the stage where I'm willing to pay proper money to someone if they can get rid of most of this crap for me, any suggestions anyone?
 
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granny

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Yeah it was reading that that promted me to finally try and do something about it but MessageLabs a) have no visible mention of anti-spam technologies on their webpage and b) seem to be solely targetted at large corporations - I don't want to pay to block the spam from the entire University, just my email account :)
 
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xane

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Are you using "offline" mail ? And if so what client software ?
 
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granny

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Offline? I use my employer's (University of Nottingham) POP3 email and I use Outlook Express. The Uni wants us all to switch to groupwise but I said fuck off and whined when they tried to kill my POP3 account :)
 
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granny

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*click0rs*

*reads*

*considers*

*installs 14 day trial*

Cheers guys, I'll let you know if it worked in 2 weeks time :)
 
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granny

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Oh, it's for Outlook only, no use :( I use Outlook Express and no, I refuse to use Outlook, it's an *appalling* piece of software.

*continues search for the Holy Spamfilter*
 
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PR.

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I'm confused how someone can say Outlook is an awful piece of software yet use Outlook Express :eek:

I've gone back to using Cloudmarks Spamnet, now it properly supports exchange servers...
 
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dysfunction

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Originally posted by PR.
I'm confused how someone can say Outlook is an awful piece of software yet use Outlook Express :eek:
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I'm also struggling with this concept
 
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granny

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Originally posted by PR.
I'm confused how someone can say Outlook is an awful piece of software yet use Outlook Express :eek:
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Because Outlook tries to do 1,000,000 things that I don't want from an email client - all I want is a simple, fast, reliable POP3 client. OE does that fine - as long as you're stupid enough to execute attached files and things. The only area where OE falls down really is security. As a no-frills email client it's very good.

Outlook is slow, clunky, crash-prone bloatware which *still* has the security nightmares of OE so why would I want to use it?

Investigating those links you've all pasted now, thanks :)
 
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Mellow-

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I thought Outlook and Outlook Express were the same thing ... but then, i've not used either of them anyway.

What's the difference?
 
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granny

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Originally posted by Mellow-
I thought Outlook and Outlook Express were the same thing ... but then, i've not used either of them anyway.

What's the difference?
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I refer the gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago.
 
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Summo

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Outlook is in all-in-one email client (POP3, MAPI etc), calendar, journal, contacts database and task manager that comes into its own when connected to a collaboration enterprise system like Exchange or Lotus Notes.

Outlook Express is a bare-bones POP3 and newsgroup client.
 
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Mellow-

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Calling me gentleman will get you into my good books, what do you want? :p

(p.s surely i'm not expected to read posts before I reply?)

/edit - ta Summo
 
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granny

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Originally posted by Summo
Outlook Express is a bare-bones POP3 and newsgroup client.
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OE does MAPI too, dunno how well though, only time I tried it I discovered the Uni had set up my MAPI email account wrongly :p
 
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Lester

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On the subject of OE. I've tried to get mail that is addressed to different people get automatically sent to designated folders in the in box but it only executes when you "apply" the rules setup and not thereafter. You have to do the rules thing every time. Did that make sense?

Any ideas?
 
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granny

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That does make sense but I don't know why it's happening - the mail filtering rules work fine for me. I was going to say are you sure the rules are set to work on Inbox but then I checked and there's no other way to set them up in OE.

Dunno, sorry :/
 
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PR.

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Originally posted by granny


Because Outlook tries to do 1,000,000 things that I don't want from an email client - all I want is a simple, fast, reliable POP3 client. OE does that fine - as long as you're stupid enough to execute attached files and things. The only area where OE falls down really is security. As a no-frills email client it's very good.

Outlook is slow, clunky, crash-prone bloatware which *still* has the security nightmares of OE so why would I want to use it?

Investigating those links you've all pasted now, thanks :)
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It may be the case that Outlook does too much for you and OE is all you need.

But I've never seen Outlook (since '97) be slow, clunky, crash-prone, bloated or a 'security nightmare'.

I use Outlook heavily on my work machine with an exchange server and 5 pop accounts not to mention the Hotmail account, it has numerous COM add-ins installed and still remains one of the few programs that can run all day for weeks without crashing.

Security, you cannot open any dodgy files even MDB, LNK files can't be opened unless a third party program is installed to allow you to get access to said file.

Which means what you should have said was

Outlook is more than I need, and so I stick with OE
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Sar

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I use outlook myself. Nice proggy.

Got used to it via work in BT, so started to use it at home as well.
 
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Pro]v[etheus

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I have my OE rules setup to put different emails in different folders and mine works fine, maybe you just need to tweak your rules a tad.
 
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granny

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Originally posted by PR.


It may be the case that Outlook does too much for you and OE is all you need.

But I've never seen Outlook (since '97) be slow, clunky, crash-prone, bloated or a 'security nightmare'.

I use Outlook heavily on my work machine with an exchange server and 5 pop accounts not to mention the Hotmail account, it has numerous COM add-ins installed and still remains one of the few programs that can run all day for weeks without crashing.

Security, you cannot open any dodgy files even MDB, LNK files can't be opened unless a third party program is installed to allow you to get access to said file.

Which means what you should have said was

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Well I've not used Outlook for about 2 years but when I did use it last it was horrendous and simply didn't work properly. I'm happy to accept it may have improved greatly but my terrible experiences of it in the last millenium were enough to put me off ever trying it again :)
 
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TedTheDog

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Running mailwasher myself now. Seems to fit the bill quite nicely.
 
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