Another note here: I was getting too much spam, so I increased the sensitivity of my filters.
I did add a few absolutely critical email addresses to my white-list (those who get through no matter what), but I’m sorry friends, I simply can’t get to everyone in my contact list. So if you send me email and it bounces, rejected for being spam, please either call me (if you have my cell number), write to Alx or JohnM (if you know those names, you may know their email addresses) and ask they notify me, or best of all, leave a comment somewhere here in this blog. Pick any post, since I get reports on every commented submitted.
Thanks,
Becca
get mailwasher or a decent spam filter that will import your address book
I’ve tried more anti-spam products than you can shake a stick at.
Every one of them has mucked up my system, my email, and chews up CPU cycles — and usually endes up needing more hand-holding than simply making use of the tools my ISP makes available to me.
In this case, LaughingSquid (my site host) offers very good systems — but one needs to actually use ‘em. Most people don’t even turn on what they already have.
So I increased the sensitivity server-side, and continue to use Outlook’s junk mail filters. I just went from 30 spam a day to 3.
I gave up on so called inteligent spam filters. MW as I have it configed is simply a whitelist (*.com is blacklisted) which lets me quickly scan first few lines of blacklisted items if I so desire.
‘course it does help to have a couple domains with unlimited aliases so I can pub an ID for a few days then throw it away when it starts collecting too much spam.