131MB of emails waiting for me!

Spam really is getting out of hand

[Sanenet]

So - haven't checked my email for about 2-3 weeks, (due to moving around a lot, a bit of holiday, setting up a new office, ya de da). And now I have 131MB - that over 13000 messages - awaiting my attention.

Most of them spam, of course.

Just to make things really interesting, I'm out of my main office for a while and stuck on an small ISDN line. I estimate it would take several days to download all those! Maybe worth my while flying back to download my messages!

(Cue Queen music)Another account bites the dust(/Queen)

[shape]

I love Queen too.
They are the BEST (imho)

[Leosghost]

Had this happen once too ..couldn't download them ( on 56k dialup ) as fast as they came in ( tried for 3 days and nights )...drove me nuts ..had to phone the ISP and ask them to burn all my mails on a CD and then wipe the mailbox ..sheesh!

[mivox]

Do you have the catchall email feature disabled for the account? When I had the 'couldn't delete them as fast as they came in' problem, I contacted my host and got instructions on how to disable the 'catchall' on our account... Prevents those outrageous floods of spam to nonexistent addresses (dictionary attacks).

[Sanenet]

Thanks for the suggestions guys - but not only is it my own mailserver, it's my main account (but not the catchall account). It wasn't too bad normally, I'd just plug in the laptop in the morning and download them, but once they accumulate!

And I can't just delete them, there's some important stuff in there. Ah well, guess I'll just have to wait till next week when I next visit the server. And change my account of course ;)

[giggle]

Can anyone recommend good anti-spam software to use with Outlook Express. We're suffering from a deluge of Spam every day too. Hmmm, fancy a sandwich now.

[Crush]

derr..use a spam filter. I have to delete maybe 5 a day now. ihatespam is a good one...spamarrest etc

[Essex_boy]

I bet its not spam but customers orders......

[giggle]

Yea, Crush I know. I was asking for recommendations.

I wish Essex_boy!

[tekel]

Where are you came from?

In Spain there are spam too... but.... ĄĄĄ13.000 messages in 20days aprox! itīs amazing.

In one of my emails, like hotmail (with four years old), i donīt received more than other similar email, about three spam messages to day.

I think is the legal terms.. in europe spam is check and is ilegal if you donīt want.

[Mardi_Gras]

>Can anyone recommend good anti-spam software to use with Outlook Express.

Cloudmark SpamNet offers an OE version. $40 per year and I have seen only one spam message since I loaded it two months ago. And no false positives.

30 day free trial. I suggest you give it a try. Of course, you will still have to download all the messages, as it works locally. But even on 128k ISDN you should be able to get most of of those messages while you're sleeping.

[vkaryl]

MailWasher Pro is still the best out there. It's not expensive, it "learns" to mark stuff so you have a clue as it hits, mail never reaches your machine unless you allow it to....

[Mardi_Gras]

>MailWasher Pro is still the best out there.

You might want to try some of the newer anti-spam products. A lot has happened in the anti-spam industry since Mailwasher was introduced.

[bill]

>MailWasher Pro is still the best out there.

Have to agree with Mardi_Gras here...and I used to be one of the biggest MailWasher shills on WebmasterWorld. ;) Bayesian filtering is where it's at now.