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Time to put down the drawbridge!
Does anyone know of a good spamkiller that will only let through a) people I know, and b) people who respond with an email to be allowed through to my inbox?
I use the McAffee spamkiller to the highest filter, but still get around 25 of these messages every day.
Someone told me there are a number of shareware apps about, but I don't want to get in a muddle!
Any ideas O teccies please? ::)

try SPAMfighter its free and pretty good

http://www.spamfighter.com

My advice for a spam free email environment is googlemail, I think this was mentioned elsewhere ... it can be linked into outlook express or whatever, I use it as my primary email address now, and find it very useful, and over several months I have never had a single spam email ! It also has a near infinite online memory so you can just archive your emails ...

Derek :)

Thank you both :)
tuinman, I loaded spamkiller and it's doing the biz already!
Thank you so much :D
SSx

Out of interest SS you could do what you wanted by using OExpress message rules
But would be a bit annoying to set up if you had lots of contacts
Glow

Don't these filters merely put the stuff into a dustbin which you then have to check in case things have slipped past - & then delete??

Glow - it was so frustrating, I thought I had McAfee and OE configured against spam, but it started arriving in bucketsful over the last few weeks >:(

Tim - yes - there's a folder where blocked spam goes. It's useful to have a safety net to check what's been blocked, and pick out the odd stray that's mistaken for spam. I'd prefer it moved to a folder than to be confronted by spam in my inbox and have to pick through it and delete ::) Any spam not filtered out at the Receive stage can be blocked manually and the sender's mail will go into the spam folder in future.

Worst case? Uninstall ;D

For now I'm dead chuffed, only installed yesterday a'noon and it's caught 47 spams :D

Quote from: Curry on January 17, 2007, 14:05:20
My advice for a spam free email environment is googlemail, I think this was mentioned elsewhere ... it can be linked into outlook express or whatever, I use it as my primary email address now, and find it very useful, and over several months I have never had a single spam email ! It also has a near infinite online memory so you can just archive your emails ...

Derek :)

Me too, 'Curry'. I swapped from Express to Google due to it freezing my 'puter. I love it..no spam and lots of extra's. Wouldn't be without now.

I'm a bit simple here - if you've got to check it all & delete anyway, what do you gain??

A clean inbox! For me, it's a Tidyness thing ;)

Off at a complete tangent, but ss where do you get your superb smileys?

Aww thank you kitten :)
whenever I see a cute smiley I 'save as' to a smileys folder on my PC
to use, save them to Photobucket and post just like you post pictures :)

Aha!! 31 day trial. What's the sign-up cost??

Oh, now an e-mail saying that I'm on Pro for 30 days & then drop to Standard free! At which time I become a free ad platform for them with a sub on my e-mails.

And now, of course, I can't wait to see what the bin catches!!

I use Google and Yahoo,which between them they block all the uneccessary junk,people who want to get through to me are on my special list,hence no problem

spamfighter is still working well for me. before i was getting 60 spam per day, now only 1 or 2 sometimes get through and  i block them strait away.

Limitation with blocking, surely, is that every spam (certainly of the Viagra, Rolex, slimming, investment type is different?

Mine's imoroving - only missed one this am.

Yes, mine seems to be learning too! Spooky! :o

How I HATE not being able to correct my spelling 2 hrs later!!

me too >:(