If anyone has sent me a regular e-mail, I apologise for not answering. I am being deluged with the doggone things. In the last six days I have received over 700 e-mail messages. I have reached the point where I am simply deleting them all without checking any of them. I just don't have time to read more then a hundred e-mail messages per day. E-mail has become practically useless to me as of late. I think I'll go back to good ole snail mail.
I assume most of that is spam. I don't know what e-mail service you use, but when I switched to gmail a few years ago the spam problem drastically improved. Now and them the spam filter snags a legitimate message, but mostly it does a very good job intercepting the crap.
Who are all these emails from? what kind of stuff do you sign up for? Im an internet addict, sign up for lots of stuff... clothing stores, tool stores, ebay paypal I do it all... I only get the emails I want. Is this an email from your service provider? Or Gmail? Gmail will learn what spam is and separate it for you. If you think its a virus you have that may be blasting emails out (causing you to get junk back) try malwarebytes, available for free on download.com. Ive had good results helping friends get rid of the nasties with it. ---------- Post added at 08:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:30 PM ---------- x 2.. I love gmail. Available where ever there's an internet connection, and they give you A LOT of free space
Yes, you definitely need a spam filter. My ISP keeps out most of it, and Gmail screens out the rest very well.
John, John, Relax Man. What I did was create another e-mail address. One for Crap that I give to Stores and all the other places that ask for it. Another for people I want to hear from. My server lets me create up to 10 different accounts. Create another address and we wont have to be creative reading your intro line. :Brow: PONCH
If it will help break a world record I could send some crap your way. lol Setting up multiple accounts that was just recommended is the way to go. ou:
Then think of all the E-mail you'll have to send out telling people of your change. Those you want to hear back from anyway. PONCH
I would change email, and I would go to gmail. I am a little biased, and a gmail user (and Google stock owner!), but gmail is really that good in my opinion. The Spam Filter is great, and if you do have a spam email that leaks by, you can flag it as spam and it will use that email to learn how to block ones like it in the future. Likewise, if it accidentally moves a non-spam email to the spam folder you can flag that one as not spam and it will move it back to the inbox. You can also set priorities based on who the sender is, or content in the email, and it will send emails like those to a priority inbox which makes sifting through unimportant email even easier. Finally, while deployed I had my gmail account compromised by a user in China and Japan. It was during a time period when a lot of folks had the same issue, which is that people were having their accounts hijacked in order to have 1000's of phishing emails sent out to World of Warcraft (online game) users. The emails were written to look like they were being sent from the developer, asking for the user to click a link and log in to restore their account. The sent block even had a legit looking email address in it, not your own. Right after I noticed the issue, I searched it and saw many others were having the problem, and immediately after that I actually got a warning from Google that said that someone in another country was logging into my account that did not appear to be me. I sent their help department a message after changing my password and they did their magic to resolve the issue. I was impressed that they were quickly able to figure out that there was unauthorized access, and then that they notified me and were able to fix the account without out having to have me change emails or lose my data. Now, I was still pissed they google was somehow hacked, but I guess that is the world we live in. I have had no issues since then!
