Hi!
I have my present email for a number of years now and the spam problem
was getting completely out of hand I was receiving about 5MB spam a
month.
So I implement a three pronged solution:
a) Obfuscation. My email is automatically altered with some characters
on start-up so I have every day a fresh new email obfuscated in a way
that, I hope, is not so easy for an automatic harvester to spot.
This has two advantages first it hopefully helps poison the spammers
email lists with lots of useless entries second it, at least for the
time being, seems to defeat un-obfuscation attempts by spammers. Just
adding NOSPAM or REMOVE is useless. Spammers will un-obfuscate such
addresses, I have seen it done.
b) Filters. Intelligent ones like SpamBayes work very well it gets about
99% of all spam http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/.
c) Reporting it. I use http://www.spamcop.net/ I have a script that
forwards all spam emails to SpamCop and afterwards I just have to click
trough the submission forms, still tedious but I think it is worth it.
I am starting to see a decrease on the quantity of spam I get but I can
not say if it is a direct result of the effort I have made or just a
temporary fluke.
MS stuff with all the safety controls turned up is as safe as any other
email client the big problem is that those are not the defaults and let
us face it the bottom line is that there is no security, no matter what
software you use, if the user runs the attachments disregarding or
turning off the security messages...
Best regards
José Rui
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