Above.

I know they recently passed a law to stop UK companies sending annoying spam emails, but it don't mean squat in my opinion, because most spam comes from outside the European Union, from the US etc.

I keep getting annoying spams with attachments claiming to be patches from Microsoft, and also everybody and his dog is trying to sell me Viagra, willy extensions and other adult-oriented stuff I don't need and would never even contemplate looking for online.

Is there any way to stop this and save myself from having to trawl through deleting 30 odd of ths emails every day?!

hehe.. i dun get any.. at the moment.. touch wood.. hehe =]

but i know a few of my friends who.. actually changed e-mail add every yr.. and informed every1 of the change.. they haven't received any spam mail so far =] :)

What email client you use?

You on broadband?

How techie are you?

Outlook Express
Yes - have been with Tele2 aka Liberty Broadband aka FirstNET for 2 years nearly
I have a good level of technical nounce

Originally posted by Rich
Above.

I know they recently passed a law to stop UK companies sending annoying spam emails, but it don't mean squat in my opinion, because most spam comes from outside the European Union, from the US etc.

I keep getting annoying spams with attachments claiming to be patches from Microsoft, and also everybody and his dog is trying to sell me Viagra, willy extensions and other adult-oriented stuff I don't need and would never even contemplate looking for online.

Is there any way to stop this and save myself from having to trawl through deleting 30 odd of ths emails every day?!

I too get all this type of rubbish as well and more. I have just stopped getting e mails from Nigeria telling me that one of my uncles had died leaving me £20 million. I told them I wasn't interested, and now apparently God is going to take it out on me for not accepting my inheritance.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I too get all this type of rubbish as well and more. I have just stopped getting e mails from Nigeria telling me that one of my uncles had died leaving me £20 million. I told them I wasn't interested, and now apparently God is going to take it out on me for not accepting my inheritance.

You should NEVER reply to anything.

I never even open them, I just highlight the whole lot, hold down the shift key and press delete (holding down the shift key while deleting allows you to bypass the deleted directory)

I know that now, Rich. I won't do that again. I was trying to wind them up, play them along a bit, but you don't know what you are getting yourself into.

Some ISPs offer Spam filtering as an extra or included in the price of their subscription - e.g. PlusNet - a real godsend if u need it

Originally posted by Rich
Outlook Express
Yes - have been with Tele2 aka Liberty Broadband aka FirstNET for 2 years nearly
I have a good level of technical nounce

Stop using Outlook Express and the viri attachements cant auto open.
Open to the idea of an SMTP server on your broadband connection and set up spam filtering rules?

aka only allow from *.uk / *mymate@hotmail.com / friendinisp@japan.co.jp

Quite easy and you control it?
Your ISP 'mess' with port 25?

If you are on broadband, I wouldn't recommend setting up your own mail server on port 25 as your IP will not be static (necessarily, unless you have paid a premium for static ip) and if your computer is ever switched off, you must use ETRN protocol to initiate mail queue spooling.

Also it means if you lose mail, you lose it.

The benefit of using POP3 is you can elect to leave messages on server, providing you with a free and valuable backup for your mail.

My recommendation, as always, is spampal (www.spampal.org) it's free, and it uses blacklists that catch about 85% of spam without looking at it, just cos it comes from blacklisted IPs. You can also block mail preferentially from most countries.

There is also a Bayesian filter for spampal which is excellent, and catches the remaining 15% with a little training.

I get 250 messages a day, approximately 200 of which are spam. Spampal deals with it all at about 99% false negatives and 99.5% false positives.

It works as a proxy POP3 server, and once set up requires little maintenance.

Mailwasher

http://www.firetrust.com/products/mailwasherpro

on my PC, combined with SpamAssain on my server, keeps me spam free (more or less!)

Check out www.quatloos.com
A great site which deals with the Nigerians and what to say to them. You can wind them up. Especially read the Brad Christiansen section.