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Software Spam Blockers

Discussion in 'General' started by navyfalcon, Feb 2, 2013.

  1. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

  2. CovertPea

    CovertPea Moderator Staff Member Verified Member

    Which email program are you using NF?
    As for me, I'm using Thunderbird 17.0.2 I'd be interested in an answer as well.
     
  3. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

    MSS Graphics (CP)
    found a program for you to check.
    SpamBayes 1.0.4 - Free Spam Filter
    http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

    SpamBayes will attempt to classify incoming email messages as 'spam', 'ham' (good, non-spam
    email) or 'unsure'. This means you can have spam or unsure messages automatically filed away
    in a different mail folder, where it won't interrupt your email reading. First SpamBayes must
    be trained by each user to identify spam and ham.
    http://spambayes.org/
     
  4. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

  5. CovertPea

    CovertPea Moderator Staff Member Verified Member

    Thanks for the leads NF. Will check them out after work tomorrow.
    Cheers!
    CP
     
  6. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

    By the way, does CP stand for 'cute person' ???
     
  7. CovertPea

    CovertPea Moderator Staff Member Verified Member

    Ohhh most definately. Yep, that's me, cute.
    (Although my other half may not agree.) :rolleyes:
     
  8. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

  9. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

  10. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

    The new yahoo mail has spam blockers and eliminators. Still checking for a better way as yahoo mail is manual, but better than it was. Lets you check before eliminating. Removes about 25 at a time. Just found the information
     
  11. navyfalcon

    navyfalcon Well-Known Member Verified Member

    Finally found the answer to Yahoo spam blockers (from Yahoo answers)
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    A Spam-blocker is a small "program" you add to the email program that's installed on your computer. Yahoo email is not installed on your computer, it's on the Yahoo servers. Your username and password give you access to your email account with Yahoo but you don't have any control over Yahoo email itself. Yahoo email does have a spam filter; make sure it it turned on for your account (go to Yahoo email, and click on "options" {should be in the upper right}, this will take you to the spam filter). Once activated the filter will send what it believes to be spam to your "trash" folder. It won't catch everything. You need to mark emails you consider to be spam as spam. This will send the email back to Yahoo so that it can be added to the "spam" list for your account; any further email from that sender will be sent to your "trash" folder (it should be listed on the left side of your email). Check your "trash" folder once in a while to make sure no real emails are being sent there by mistake (if one is, you can click a button at the top of it to tell Yahoo that it is not spam). Emails in your "trash" folder are automatically deleted after 30 days. The Yahoo spam filter actually does work well but it does need help from you; mark as spam emails you deem to be spam, and check your "trash" folder for legitimate emails.

    Spam blocker programs are really only useful for email programs that are installed on your computer (you installed the program on your computer, you can control how it works, unlike Yahoo email). Microsoft Outlook has quite a few spam blockers written for it; Outlook (along with a spam blocker) can give you precise control over every piece of email that you receive.
     
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