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JeffK:
If your prepared to pay for your email I'd also recommend Tuffmail.  You can host your domain there and it has very good spam controls. I also use fastmail which is very good.  To get the better spam filtering you have to pay approx $US20 per year.  They have a special on at the moment of $15 but it runs out in a few days.

Jeff

superticker:
@carol: I'm not a big expert in regex, but i think that this should do it:

--- --- carol.*carol.*carol+.* -jgpaiva (June 08, 2006, 07:43 AM)
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Actually, placing the + in front of the "l" in carol will only cause the "l" to repeat.  You want to enclose carol in () so the whole word repeats instead:

--- --- carol.*carol.*(carol)+.* I use Courier for my e-mail client, and it has very good regex filtering and such.  The only thing MailWasher has over Courier is that (1) the regex's are slightly better, (2) it can bounce messages back to the spammer, which you may occasionally want to do, (3) it knows about spammer IP addresses and spam sources, (4) you don't have to download the entire message body (including the spammer's gif attachment) if you only want to scan the message header.

ronkon:
Hello Carol,
I find "MailWasher Pro" the best of the MANY I've tried over the years.  As my e-mail address appears in my publications plus several others (& on-line), I used to get over a thousand per week :( ... until I discovered "MailWasher Pro".  Now I get ONLY what I want plus the 'occasional SPAM' which is added to my BLACK LIST only once. 
BTW, MW clears 'unwanted' stuff BEFORE they are downloaded  :D
I recommend the "Pro" version for almost 100% satisfaction (and regular free upgrades  :Thmbsup: )
"Warmest" regards from tropical Malaysia  8)

Actually having gone back to Mailwasher (combined with FirstAlert and SpamCop) after a long break I am finding it very useful. The 'multiple cc to carol*' filter is quite effective against my ISP spam as it is usually addressed to at least 10 'carols' and so is easily identifiable. As I get legitimate mail to that address I'll move subscriptions to alternatives and then eventually I can just do a 'dump the lot' approach on that address.
-Carol Haynes (June 14, 2006, 02:15 PM)
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Carol Haynes:
Actually, placing the + in front of the "l" in carol will only cause the "l" to repeat.  You want to enclose carol in () so the whole word repeats instead:

--- --- carol.*carol.*(carol)+.* -superticker (June 15, 2006, 10:03 PM)
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Thanks - I wish I could get to grips with RegEx but everytime I start to follow tutorials my eyes glaze and I have to go and lie down for a while.

I presume I can use:


--- --- carol.*(carol)+.*
for 2 or more occurences of the string?

Renegade:
1) keep a variety of emails, some of which are only given out to real humans, etc. and some only for signing up places.
-mouser (June 08, 2006, 05:20 AM)
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Unfortunately that doesn't work. If you email people, you will still get on spam lists. The problem is that some viruses/spambots/worms/malware (or whatever you want to call it...) harvests email addresses from inside of people's computers (i.e. their address book).  >:(

If you want that to work, you can only email responsible people that don't download everything they see, don't visit porn, games, gambling, or seedy sites, and that run a firewall as well as anti-virus software. That isn't many people  :(

Email is dead. There is no cure. It was developed in the 70's (or whatever - too long ago) in a different age and for a different purpose. It is outdated and IS DEAD as a viable means of reliable communication.  :mad:

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