Must Remember To Check That Spam Folder

I like Cloudmark Desktop for Outlook. It's kind of like digg for spam. Users vote on which emails are spam (when you click "block" for any one email, it counts as a vote), and if an email gets enough votes it's filtered. I get over a thousand spam emails per day, it handles them easily, and with zero false positives. A few spam schemes still get through, but less than 10 per day usually, and more than worth it to never (ever) have to check the spam folder (in fact, I have it sent directly to the deleted folder, which I set to empty on closing Outlook).

I hate it when I just fully delete my spam folder and miss something incredibly important...

Hey John, get your spam filtering for free! Mailfoundry gives the first 10 users of its hosted anti spam service free of charge! I use the service and while they do require a credit card for signup, theres no charge for 10 or less users. Very cool.

www.mailfoundry.com

Looks like they've changed their website a bit since I signed up, but click on the "hosted anti spam" under the "anti spam" menu.

The great thing about whatever these guys do to kill spam is that it doesnt snag real emails. I have no idea how they do it, but it has been a lifesaver to not have to hunt for lost emails.

Gmail is by far the best at stopping spam in my opinion.

Do you have to use gmail for domains to do this, or will their regular mail system do it?

solution - have gmail to host your domain email. I tried it before, and it is just great

Another way is to have mail forwarded to gmail. then download use POP from gmail. and use SMTP from your own hosting server.

Hi John - I used to use SpamBayes which was an open source solution that worked very well with Outlook. The new Outlook though doesn't work with SpamBayes so I am on the hunt for a new solution.

Are you just using the Outlook 2007 junk email settings and putting them on high or are you using a plugin to help catch some of the junk?

Hello, John ...

In regard to "comment spam" ... would one of those little boxes with weird letters in it help? Like they have over at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ ??? Where you have to type in the weird letters before the system will accept your post? Is there maybe a plug-in for that for WordPress?

Regards, Elizabeth ...

How do you set up a server side spam filter?

Spam's never going away. Gate's been trying to get rid of it for more than a decade.

John I got 2 words for you....

Spam Arrest.

Me and Tim Ferriss both give it a thumbs up.

I got over 740 spams yesterday because of my new Young Hot Blogs contest, all this weird porno spam and such...Spam Arrest cleaned it like a soapy rag on the oily chain on my Harley!

Have you considered outsourcing your email to a virtual assistant John? Your life will get a whole lot more fun!

Steph..How much do we have to pay for Spamarrest? It sounds interesting..could you give me the affiliate link?

Also,I dislike the new MSN Live Hotmail..it is sometimes so retarded to block my inbox message contents and treat them as spam when they are not...I still prefer Gmail!

Spam arrest looks pretty good. If you do want to test it out John I have an affiliate code to bounce of you.....

I am going to send them an email and advise them to consider a review from you also .. Im sure it would fit within the :evil: Evil :evil: scheme of things.

anyone else want to test it pop by for a visit and use the contact form and I will do an invite. It has some really great tools from what I see

Stephen

John,

I hope my email -- that alerts you of a potential problem with your linking strategy -- did not end up in your spam box. : :roll:

Spamarrest, never heard of it...any good anyone? :razz:

Hey John, looks liek you've been banned from google. You aren't showing up for anything even the search John Chow. :cry:

I might explore SPAMARREST, anyone else using it?

I dont get as much spam i hate gmail :\ so i wont go with them I dont mind the few spam things i get.. i just delete them and unsubscribe for those spam things

and really after taking hte time to unsubscribe my spam amount really plummeted

John, very simple man, open a gmail account. Then setup a forward on your mail server to forward all of your mail to your gmail account. Link your gmail account to your server mail account (which takes 2 minutes and its free) so you can send emails out from your gmail account as John@johnchow.com, then watch the spam go bye bye and your good email stay intact. I have this setup for numerous websites, and still nothing gets lost but the spam. If you need help setting it up lemme know. :cool:

Agreed about gmail's spam filter. It's crazy... If only it could grab those lottery prizes of mine...

Have you tried Spam Fighter (http://www.spamfighter.com/)? It caught spam very well when I was using Outlook. There is a free trial version, and the commercial one costs around $30.

Yep, agree with the other posters. Gmail does an excellent job of recognizing spam. I redirect a bunch of own domain accounts to my gmail address, and it deals with 99.5% of the spam I get!

Yahoo! is less than 80% and don't even talk about Hotmail or Hinet (both of which got so much spam within HOURS of creating an account...!)

Yep, at the moment, Gmail is better than anything I've tried! I no longer bother with Outlook or Express or whatever it's currently called. The anti-spam measures are just ineffective! I'm also not going to spend hours fiddling with filters only to find them also ineffective.

Get gmail, set up popmail, redirect ALL your accounts to your SECRET gmail account, then access it via whatever client you like! Works like a charm.

Kenneth

Hi John -

I could be wrong but it looks like you may have been spanked by Google...

I don't see you in the serps for "make money online".

Also when you do a "site command" site:www.johnchow.com ur home page is not at the top of the list. I hope it's not the case but my experience is that this could be the beginning of a G penalty - I hope I'm wrong - If I'm right email me if you want some of my input on what happened.

Craig

Get Gmail for your domain, John. It's the best solution out there...

Yahoo SPAM Filter is awful!! I get like 2-3 legit emails in there every day.

Accepting free software from Microsoft? Wow, you ARE evil! :twisted:

I'm not getting spam at the moment, but I think a spambot is masking my domain, as I'm getting thousands of "Mail Delivary Failed" returns. Anybody else getting that?

I use an antispam appliance by Solinus called MailFoundry. It cost a couple of K but it is for business. It filters out emal and puts all the spam in to a quarantine email that I check each day. I just quickly scroll through the list of emails caught and release any that were incorrectly stopped. I havent had to release any for a few months though.

I never go sifting through my spam email. I mean between my Gmail account, Yahoo! Mail, and all my work emails. I decide if it isn't from somebody I know personally, then it's not very important. Pretty bad logic I know, but I don't get much "legit" spam email.

Hello John, I saw you have over 2000 mybloglot members - Thats great.

just remembered, I havent checked my spam folder for weeks !!!

Does the spam come in waves for you too? Sometimes I'll get a bunch of it, then it'll let up for a bit, but it comes back. Do I need to keep installing new anti-spam plugins?

John, with the number of e-mails you get, you probably spend more time answering/deleting those mails.

A post with the way you spend your time would be a great insight!

What do you others have to say :?:

I feel for you.

I get well over 1,000 spam emails a day and even more spam comments on my blog!

I'm always amazed at gmail's spam filter. I never had any legit e-mails in my spam folder, and maybe once a month a spam e-mail goes to my inbox. So much better then what I was used to when I was using hotmail.