I'm curious how y'all (especially the Snappermail folk) handle spam? I use Eudora, albeit reluctantly, because it's the only program I know of that will let me do any filtering at all. With more than 200 pieces of junk mail a day, email on my Kyo would be worthless if I couldn't cull some of the chaff. How do you all deal with junk mail?
Originally posted by EMN I'm curious how y'all (especially the Snappermail folk) handle spam? I use Eudora, albeit reluctantly, because it's the only program I know of that will let me do any filtering at all. With more than 200 pieces of junk mail a day, email on my Kyo would be worthless if I couldn't cull some of the chaff. How do you all deal with junk mail?
I run my own mail server at home, and do server side filtering. Not a solution for everyone....
Once you start checking e-mail from multiple locations, it's better to do all e-mail management on the server (spam filtering, and even storing messages, rather than downloading them to your PC client and erasing them from the server). Check if your ISP (or other e-mail provider) offers IMAP and SpamAssassin. IMAP is a way of viewing and synchronizing e-mail with a central server, instead of the more popular POP which downloads e-mail to your client for viewing (and oftentimes erases it from the central server, making it unavailable to other clients, like your 7135). SpamAssassin is a very effective spam-fighting tool. You can configure rules to erase or segregate suspected spam, etc.
If you're going to use IMAP, I suggest using VersaMail on your 7135. It's the best IMAP client out there.
Bottom line is if you are reading mail on your 7135 you need to do something at the server level. Client side filtering on your phone means you still will download all the messaged and then sort them after the fact.
I've used all of the solutions presented so far. The one that worked the best for me was to subscribe to a challenge - response service. It's not without it's problems too. You need to be on top of it when you are expecting mail from an automated source, like when you purchase something online and the shopping cart sends you a recipt etc.
I really like the challenge-response method too. If you have your own server (or configurable web space) and Python, you should check out http://www.tmda.net. It works on the same premise as SpamArrest, and best of all, its FREE. It also allows you to create virtual e-mail addresses that only whitelist a particular sender or domain, and even dated addresses that only work for a given time period (great for newsgroups and SPS ). I would use it myself, but there seems to be some problems configuring it with my web host. SpamAssassin works well enough for me.
). I would use it myself, but there seems to be some problems configuring it with my web host. SpamAssassin works well enough for me.
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