Spam

[Biggun]

My wife is getting a heap of Spam at her work and its driving her nuts. She uses Mailwasher Pro, but I think she has just been blacklisting every dodgy Email (server?). Now Mailwasher goes crazy. I have tried to uninstall and re install, but it just keeps the same settings as before I uninstalled. I have tried to disable Mailwasher and just use office Outlooks Junk mail filter, thats not working either. It is her work Email, so she cant change the addy. Any suggestions of proggys or settings to help her?
Thanks

[admin]

Sign up for a Gmail account. Although it is webmail , it also allows you to add a POP3 account in as well which you can send and receive with without anyone knowing the difference. Gmail's filters are pretty good and I have about 7 gig of space free ( I have used 1% in the 6 months I set it up at a members suggestion.

[covert]

Yeah gmail is the way to go. It fetches about 10 of my pop3 accounts and I end up seeing about 1 spam every 2 days instead of a few hundred.

1. Set up gmail to fetch your mail from all your pop3/imap accounts.
2. optional - use your preferred mail client to fetch your email from gmail so gmail just becomes a proxy / filter.

gmail also has great great filtering options.

[Biggun]

Thanks Sanity and Covert, I have set up the Gmail acct, and have added her POP3 acct. But I cant seeem to receive the mail through Gmail, but when i send from her acct it says its from the added pop3 acct. So she can send from her orginal(through Gmail), but cant receive any.
Clear as mud?
Any ideas
Cheers

[covert]

In gmail -> settings -> accounts -> Get mail from other accounts:

Make sure you have all the correct details. Click on View history for that added account to check it is receiving without errors.

[BCNZ]

Blacklisting or bouncing?
If that program is bouncing SPAM, that's the worst thing it could do. It seems that the spammers are getting smarter and can identify mail that is not bounced immediately as being a "live" address, therefore SPAM it even more.

[Xoote]

Thanks... i'm having the problem.

[Biggun]

I have the Email addy going through Gmail, and only getting 2 or 3 Spam per day, Instead of 40 to 50.
Thanks guys