A lot of eMails…

Published on November 6, 2008 in Computer. 2 Comments

Maybe time to think about getting a new eMail address?!?

2 Responses to “A lot of eMails…”

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  • Florian Hollender
    November 11, 2008 at 13:48

    Forgive me for being blunt, but – are you bonkers?
    You need a working spam filter, that’s it! Getting new email addresses because of spam is so 1990s! ;-)
    if you were on a mac I’d recommend SpamSieve… you are running Thunderbird, doesn’t that already come with pretty good spam filtering? You might be able to pimp it with http://www.spamato.net/. If that doesn’t work, channel your mail through gmail (IMAP), which gives you a) all your email on the go, b) very good spam filtering as well.

    Cheers
    Florian

  • stefan
    November 11, 2008 at 14:08

    It isn’t my mail address ;-) . Just emptied the mailbox of a friend using fetchmail and a local POP server.
    Spamfilter in Thunderbird: not really usable when untrained… :-( . Finally I ended up using Outlook (which uses signature based filters) and it did a pretty good job identifying about 62000 of the messages as spam.
    About 1 out of 2000 mails is not spam for this address; with this ratio a new mail address is easier than hoping that the spam filter will find THE ham message out of 2000 I guess… ;-) .

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