spam solution

thetourist

hope this is the right forum for this...

i want to set up an email account for someone who only needs to receive mail from a hanful of people and doesnt want to be bothered by spam ( join the club :rolleyes: )...
i remember years ago someone told me of a way ( i think it was in hotmail .. but any server would do ) to block ALL mail except for people on the contact list/whitelist - does anyone know a simple way of doing this ( ideally without using client side antispam software )
thanks

Dariukas

i would advise to use gmail.... never had problem with spam... u get some spam messages but they all go straight away to spam folder.. so it doesn't really bother me...

XJR

thetourist wrote:

i want to set up an email account for someone who only needs to receive mail from a hanful of people and doesnt want to be bothered by spam ( join the club :rolleyes: )...

The most important thing is to make sure this email address is used only for contact and not used for registration on websites etc. Once you've used it for registering with websites for newsletterst etc then you can forget it.

Static M.e.

I vote for Gmail.

Ghost Train

thetourist wrote:

hope this is the right forum for this...

i want to set up an email account for someone who only needs to receive mail from a hanful of people and doesnt want to be bothered by spam ( join the club :rolleyes: )...
i remember years ago someone told me of a way ( i think it was in hotmail .. but any server would do ) to block ALL mail except for people on the contact list/whitelist - does anyone know a simple way of doing this ( ideally without using client side antispam software )
thanks

www.spamihilator.com is what I use, pretty good if you just want to import your address book and block everything else. Should work with any standard email client. All spam goes into a recycle bin where you can review it and restore any messages you want or add the addresses to your friends list. Lots of advanced options including DCC filter. Pretty easy to intall and setup, pretty much automatic

the_syco

Static M.e. wrote:

I vote for Gmail.

+1. Gmail inbox:1 legit email. Gmail spam box:293

thetourist

actuallly the problem is with a gmail account, and my own gmail account has some spam on it too, and i never used the account at all really. ( i know enough not to use a good account to reg for newsletters or domain names etc )

a guy i was talking to some time ago had a sytem set up on his hotmail where no mail at all got through except mail from people on his contact list. ALL other mail good or bad got deleted. thats what i want for this particular account.

ps the person has no need for outlook or a client so client side filtering is not really an option i think. setting up filters in gmail is not really an option. i have done this in the past myself and you really have to keep on writing / programming new filters as the spam keeps avoiding them - so not an option really.

killbillvol2

You've answered your own question twice. You can set Hotmail to only accept email from your list of contacts. It's not even complicated.

suppafly

yeah i'd like to second gamil there. It has the best spam filtering i've seen in any of the email providers. Get the occaisional one or 2 spam in my inbox and also it rarely mislabels emails as spam

thetourist

killbillvol2 wrote:

You've answered your own question twice. You can set Hotmail to only accept email from your list of contacts. It's not even complicated.

no, actually i spent a good while looking for it on the hotmail page and couldnt find it, so i supposed they took it off - will look again, thanks

thetourist

thetourist wrote:

no, actually i spent a good while looking for it on the hotmail page and couldnt find it, so i supposed they took it off - will look again, thanks

yip found it straight away - dont know how i missed it - apopogies and thanks

killbillvol2

No bother.