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Once well trained and with well designed filters and accept/block lists I find mailwasher to be excellent. I have it auto-delete stuff on my block list, but still do a cursory check on things it's flagged as spam.

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I had 12 so far on my Yahoo account today. Its the first ever e-mail address I got and do not use it much not but I do not bother with Mail Washer anymore, I just let Outlook 2003 junk mail take control of it. I just add it to the blocked senders list and empty it once a week.

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My stats for today, so far:

I receive 150 to 250 spam emails a day, from three email accounts (including one which has another account forwarded to it). Like Mike, I use Spampal - have done for years. The Bat! has common folders - i.e. folders that are non-account specific - so all the spam addressed to all my accounts goes into one folder where I give it a quick glance and hit ctrl-A and Delete.

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Odd.... I use Spampal and it first downloads the spam, then adds "**SPAM**" to the subject field so it's easy for Outlook Express to have a rule to pop it into my spam folder ( so I can double check before deleting). Can Spampal be used with an NTL account to delete it at the server? I find it's very accurate at sorting the spam, but it downloads the whole lot. Mozilla ( and something called "The Bat" ) seems to be very popular, I'll take a look, thanks.

And none of you have answered my question, are you all politicians?
;-)>
is it worth reporting spam or not?

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Bouncing is WORSE than useless, as the sender address is invariably forged.

As I understand it, with Spampal, you can delete IMAP mail within spampal, but not POP.

If you are CERTAIN of your spam tagging, you could use a delete from server rule, but I'm not entirely certain if that would pass correctly through, or if there is a risk of skewing the numbering.

One thing, seems to be that the typical spam/bulkmail message-id formats are quite good predictors, and only need a small degree of cross-checking for legitimate bulkmail - or perhaps, secondary checking for known rotten IP ranges, like 24.0.0.0/8 , and perhaps the entire APNIC controlled range as well.

Mark it differently, and delete only that marking from the server.


Reporting:
To be honest, I used to report, now I've thrown a fairly solid blocker up - the days when spam had traceable sources are long gone, it's usually from an open proxy, on a "don't care" ISP, pointing to a website in "don't care" China.

Actually it looks like NTL might be despamming, as since I threw the block on my old Freeserve account (I used THEIR spam marking, with exceptions for any known good senders that were getting marked, and delete from server), I haven't noticed ANY spam at all - the ones that used to come through on both, don't seem to be coming through at all.

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WTF?
Can you put that into English please?

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I delete spam and emails from mailing lists from the server, so the only copy is a local one. It prevents my inbox from going over its limit. All other emails I leave on the server. With IMAP you never download your emails, which is only of use if you don't mind NTL deleting them for good. I do :)

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Just thought I would tell you that my tv internet email address yesterday had 83 spam messages sent to it. I just deleted the lot. First time I have known that to happen. :)

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He was talking about some of the characteristics of spam emails, which allows them to be identified as such.

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The Regexp filter plugin for Spampal - NOT for the fainthearted - there is a preset ruleset for it, but it's rather "fuzzy matched".

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Agree :D There are loads of pre-set rules - I've added a few myself.

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I was tought that.

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I use this http://www.spam-stop.co.uk/ try it free for 30 days then £5 per month after that. All spam is deleted at the server so nothing gets through to you.

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Bouncing them simply creates more traffic to overload mail servers - imagine if one million spams sent also generated one million mail bounces :eek:.

Great if you want to spend £5 month, and give a stranger access to your mailbox. :disturbd: As I have said many times in all the Spam topics we get, there are plenty of free spam filters out there - the one I use is Popfile, and it's sucess rate is currently 99%.

FYI: Once you start getting Spam, it will normally continue as Spammers generally asume that any e-mail address they don't get a delivery failure for is a valid address.

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No stranger gets access to your mailbox.