Re: [Hampshire] SPAM issues

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Author: jack
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] SPAM issues
On Friday 02 January 2009 14:06:29 john wrote:
> Hi
>
> I got my email address in 1994. I would like to keep it. This presents me
> with problems with SPAM as the address has been in existence for longer
> than ten years.
>
> In the course of 3 days over the new year my address got hit with over 2000
> spam emails.
>
> I use kmail as my email which downloads just my email address and leaves
> all the other email items on the orange email server. Every few days I
> have to access Webmail and delete all the SPAM emails that are not
> addressed to me.
>
> examples are jeen@.. fred@.. jex@..
>
> Is there a way to download all emails which I can then filter out.
>
> John Eayrs


if you were prepared to use gmail you could make gmail collect the mail. it
would automatically delete the spam and then you could collect the remainder
from gmail.

jack