Stopping Spam: Hotmail Webemail

[AtreideS]

Hi,
I have a hotmail address that I've had for 7 years now. So naturally I get alot of spam emails. I have the filter set on the Highest Setting and this works well. Although I'm still getting about 5 to 10 emails a day of junk. I've visited the website spamarchive.org and I'd love to contribute. However I'm not sure of a way to setup an automatic way of having my spam forwarded to the archive. I really don't have the time to individually send all the spam to the archive address. Is there some other way I could do this. I've thought about using hotmail through OE, is this worth a try? Thanks.

 

[joe2cool]

Hi !! 'am not sure about spamarchive.org..will check out.

I've had an hotmail account also for quite a few years & what 'am using & seems to be beating the 'Spam download' is 'Mailwasher'

Check it out......'am finding it excellent each day !!

 

[Gary R]

Think I'll look at Mailwasher too....
I have a Hotmail account & only reason I got it at first was so I could use Messenger & Netmeeting, but a couple of people I know use it, so I do get messages via it at times.
Just tonite (saturday) I deleted 54 Spams that'd arrived since Jan. 16. THEN, on top of that, I've started getting 4 or 5 Spam's a day from .msn addresses--and, on occasion, yahoo addresses ( again ), via my Earthlink account.
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So, if Mailwasher will work with the free .msn Hotmail setup, as well as Earthlink, I'll be happy, but if it doesn't with .msn, I'll just keep deleting every so often, & keep the E'link box cleaned up.
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QUICK QUESTION ..... Does mailwasher come with an Uninstall prgram in case of a problem, and if so what does it do to the E-mail settings? Does everything have to be set up again, or what???
Looked at the website & couldn't find anything about either subject.

 

[joe2cool]

Hi Gary ..no there's no uninstall.....but if you were to delete your original settings would not be affected ! the program just works alongside other email accounts.

Therefore its obviously best to use 'Mailwasher' first to check your mail before actually download.

Great feeling being able to bounce 'Spam' back