Wow, Email Spam Is Arriving Faster Than I Can Delete It

I'll probably have to abandon the account

[lawman]

My filters direct probable spam to a holding account. Lately it's been filling up very quickly.

As soon as I verify it's spam and delete, there is already more spam taking its place.

It's a shame that I'll have to shut it down. :(

lawman

[Woz]

Hey Lawman, Mailwasher (or some such similar), bounce and delete at the server. Should cut your spam down to a managable amount.

Onya
Woz

[vkaryl]

Yup - I'll second Mailwasher. I have it set now to delete for me anything I so designate. I haven't far as I can tell lost anything important in a couple of months....

Best cheap mail front-end out there.

[mivox]

Make sure your email account is set up to discard mail sent to any non-existent email accounts... Our office email accounts were absolutely drowning a couple weeks ago. Once I disabled the 'catchall' address, it slowed to the usual 200 spam/address/day, instead of tens of thousands.

[nancyb]

I second deleting the "catchall"! I was getting up to 500 a day (one week it was averaging 1000 per) until I set up my account to auto delete all mail sent to non-existent email addresses.

Also, a very, very big second to mailwasher! The only problem I have, now that mailwasher lets you do a quick reply without downloading the mail, is that I tend to let the messages build up on the server.

[eastcoasters]

Hi!

Glad I found this board...

Question:

Today I had about 30 "undelieverable's" in my email....mail I didn't send! Any tips? A lot of it is using a web address of mine that is still under construction. Which has been happening for about 2 months. I forward them to the [e-mail]. Today though, some idiot was on a rampage and I am about to go nuts.
I have firewall & virus scan...any advice to stop the madness?