Spam Email Help

[Since1982]

A few weeks ago I decided to unsubscribe from a whole bunch of junk emails that were landing in my mailbox. Big mistake. Although they all looked to be reputable companies that I recognised clearly there was a rogue amongst them and since then I have been plagued with spam. I use an imap email address that is associated with a domain I own and hold at 123-reg so I have been trying to turn up the volume on their spam filter to deal with the problem. This seems to work just about when I use Outlook and I see emails appear and then get deleted right away but....it also seems to be blocking mails I do want to receive and, on my iphone the spam is just pouring through unhindered.

I really don't want to change my email address so are there any other things I could try?

 

[4-p]

You can create safe lists/white lists.
Trawl, through previous emails and find all our the ones you defo want to always get and add the from address to your address book, hit the always load images button and if you have options to say , never junk, whitelist or important etc, use them.
This will stop the false positives.

Presumably the 123reg inbox web ui is pony?
If your lucky and it's something like squirelmail you would be better doing more there at the source rather than in outlook.

If u'r address is not a common free consumer domain (hotmail, gmail etc.) Parasitic List brokers might be having a field day, seeing as there is no optin required for business addresses, now you've reacted to an email from a bad one, you're on the hotlist.

If u see a pattern of similarity in the senderd: from address, genre of email content (loans, porn, gambling etc.);
You might be able set-up filters to better target the bad ones. Check out abuse.net fit some good ways to report spam. You could also forward the spam to your isp (123reg?) , so they might decide to blacklist the sender.


In the long term, once an address has been ruined by too much spam, it is easier to get a new email address and make this tainted one your junky one. Update you address in services you trust over time and send a big bcc to friends and family with the new address.

I'll always recommend Gmail, it's the most feature full inbox.
Especially their "email alias" feature to help stop spam.
Also make your self a spamgourmet account, so you can remove the risk if you're forced to allow spam when using an online service, like financial support.

 

[HovaGirl]

If you "unsubscribe" from such spam emails, all you do is alert the spammer that your email address is active. Then they just send you more and more and sell that address to others. It is best just to ignore them, treat them as junk, and delete them.

 

[Since1982]

Ok thanks. I didn't unsubscribe from a spam email, that is what is so frustrating. It was just the usual stuff you end up getting from companies I've dealt with over time. I'm assuming one of those was a bad 'un but I guess it could be via something else.