Serious amount of SPAM recieved with eircom.net email account!

Bubba

Hi,

A few friends and I are recieving a huge amount of spam a day on our eircom.net accounts. Recently i had to resort to changing email addresses but it is not so simple for a friend as he uses it work his work clients aswell. Is there any way to cut down or restrict all this spam coming through to my inbox? I know that you can put email rules etc. into Outlook but that would not sort out my problem in this case as i would need 1000's of rules as they are practically different emails from different addresses each time.

Can anyone help or experienced this problem with an eircom.net account before?

Cheers,
Bubba

Redisle

I have the exact same problem with my eircom account.. i never give my eircom email to dodgy sites or sign up to newsletters with it becasue i regard it as my official email address but over the last few months i have been getting constant spam selling viagra, bogus stocks etc.. and the funny thing about this particular spam is that the to field and the cc field are always filled with eircom.net emails.. no other emails just all eircom ones... that is very strange imo.. anyway recently i have installed a trial of spambutcher and it seems to be catching most of them but it also catches things i dont want it to.. it runs in the sys tray and removes the spam emails from the mail server so that when you open up outlook or whatever you only receive the good email..

I would be very interested to know if the spam you are receiving is similar to mine and if it is addressed to eircom only.. wouldnt it be strange for spammers to target a specific email provider?

Ciaran500

I think eircom provide a spam filtering service for an extra charge. About €3 a month IIRC. We had to use it in my old job, it didn't get all spam but caught alot of it.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Pants to that... I use thunderbird, it catches those stupid fake stock emails nicely.

brav

I used to have thos problem also, but actually very little of those stock email's now make it in to my inbox in outlook.

At the moment gmail retrieves my eircom email and then my pc downloads all the emails through gmail.
Now I get about 2 a week advertising some stock, compared to 5 a day(about 20 spam in junk mail a day, at least its not in my inbox)

brav

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Pants to that... I use thunderbird, it catches those stupid fake stock emails nicely.

I must actually give Thunderbird another go, I used it 1 or 2 years ago but I preferred outlook at that time, as I used to need to sync my contacts

killbillvol2

brav wrote:

I used to have thos problem also, but actually very little of those stock email's now make it in to my inbox in outlook.

At the moment gmail retrieves my eircom email and then my pc downloads all the emails through gmail.
Now I get about 2 a week advertising some stock, compared to 5 a day(about 20 spam in junk mail a day, at least its not in my inbox)

So gmail's spam filter is catching most of the crap and then you download the normal stuff? Sounds good.
How does using gmail to retrieve your eircom email work when you reply?

kaizersoze

killbillvol2 wrote:

So gmail's spam filter is catching most of the crap and then you download the normal stuff? Sounds good.
How does using gmail to retrieve your eircom email work when you reply?

I presume this is how he does it:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=21288
It's a new feature in Gmail called Mail Fetcher.
If the mail fetcher option described in the link doesn't appear in your Gmail settings then click on the general tab and change the language from "English (UK)" to "English (US)". It doesn't appear to be rolled accross all regions yet.

About the reply question. You can also setup to send mail from another email address. You are still sending from your Gmail account but the recipient will only see your Eircom email address. If Gmail retrieves an email from your Eircom address you just hit reply and it will reply from your Eircom address.

Clear as mud, eh.:)

brav

I receive email form a few different places, but I have a few domain's registered and I use one of those as my contact for all my emails, and they usually get re-directed to gmail. So even thought I use gmail/eircom a lot, the receiver sees it being from a@b.com and when they click reply it also shows up as being a@b.com.

basically kinda what kaizersoze said above. Pretty easy to implement but sounds awkward when I try to write it down.

killbillvol2

Thanks lads. I think I've figured it out. Fingers crossed!