I've had it with junk mail

[davemchine]

My junk mail volume has continued to increase ever since last christmas. I'd say for every legitimate email I must get 10 junk mails. And apple's junkmail filter is simply not adequate. So I've done the unthinkable. I have set Mail to junk any email who's sender is not in my addressbook. I'll have to scan thru it once in awhile but at least I won't be seeing messages about enlarging my penis 20x a day.

Dave

[Zoidberg]

You using .Mac by chance? My .Mac e-mail got spoofed, bad enough that I would up killing the account and moving away from .Mac. Probably what happened was that my e-mail, sitting innocently in a clients' Windows-based address book, got pilfered by a virus and then away we go.

Apple rep told me Apple doesn't (or didn't, anyway) have any kind of filtering system at the server level, instead relying on Mail.app's (geez, I wish they'd name it something) Junk Mail filtering.

FWIW, I went to Spamcop.net after leaving .Mac. Cut my spam down to near-zero.

[$tevie]

I just got my first junk email in a very long time. The bad news is that it came to my .Mac account.

The spam account that I use for freebies etc. has yet to receive one piece of unsolicited mail. Go figure.

[davemchine]

i just created an email alias for use when purchasing things. I'll try to use that from now on. Jeez, there should be a better way.

Dave

[spearmint]

I signed up for a Yahoo account and all hll broke loose. I hate that company. It's calmed down now and I guess I am lucky that I only get 10-15 a day on my Hotmail account.

Hotmail has an option of labeling such mail as "junk" but I am sure these villains change enough of their e-mail address to outwit this.

[Lux Interior]

My gmail account has been very good at keeping the spam in the junk folder. Of course, most of comes from my Yahoo! account, which I forward to gmail.

[Silencio]

Yeah, email is getting nigh useless due to the fact that well over half of all email traffic is spam. We really need a Email 2.0 standard to be created and adopted ASAP which actually takes modern uses and abuses of email into account.

I get 4 or 5 spams a day on my .Mac account now. As of maybe 9 months ago, I never got any. My Mail.app junk filter pitched a fit and I had to reset it and retrain it, but it seems to be doing a good job again.

I recently installed SpamSieve on a client's machine for use with Entourage 2004, and it's really pretty great. We had previously used Spamfire, which ended up being pretty much garbage in the long run. If you can deal with client-side spam filtering, SpamSieve is highly recommended!

[Mike Johnson]

The email address I share with friends doesn't get much spam, and the stuff it does get is easy to filter out.

I also have a catchall domain, clarusthedogcow.com. If I buy something from Joe's Stereos, I tell them my address is joesstereos@clarusthedogcow.com. Then I can find a receipt or whatever I may need, and ignore everything else. And as a bonus, I can tell who not to trust with my address. That domain gets hundreds of junk mails each day, but it doesn't get in my way.

[karsen]

I get 200-300 SPAM emails a day in my business email account. Even though Mail.app does a good job of filtering it's still a pain in the ass because I have to scroll through junk mail to make sure nothing important got falsey ID'ed as junk.

[OWC Larry]

for our FasterMac.net ISP service, we provide the 'Friends' system.

It allows the auto adding of e-mail address when you send mail out to people.

New contacts, when they e-mail in are given an auto response, all they have to do is reply and send it back to your address to be added that way.

In addition, you can review 'pending' messages from those not yet allowed and manually add addresses to the list by allowing messages to come through (or just release if one time only you want) - which covers things like reservation services, credit card companies, etc - which are automated themselves and wouldn't respond to the Friends invitation.

And you black list those that you don't want coming in.

I got tired of the junk filters and spam filters blocking mail that wasn't - and becoming less than useful as the spammers are ever more active in thwarting such filters.

Friends completely cleaned up my in box. Spam is no longer an issue on my Friends enabled accounts at all. And it's nice for some people since it doesn't require you be on the web to do a challenge thing for becoming an accepted sender.