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Sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

What's the best option for dealing with spam in an eircom account? I've just begun receiving about 10 a day all of a sudden. I figure it's some program sending them out rather than me putting my e-mail address on any public sites, because I haven't.

Eircom have a program for €2 a month that stops spam. Does anyone know if it's worth it? Does it work?

usualsuspect

How do you know eircom aren't just sending you spam so you'll pay them 2 euros to get rid of it?

Best bet might be to use a different email address other than your eircom one. In any case it makes it easier to switch ISPs if you don't use an email address tied to your ISP:>>>>>>>>>>" good man

Redshift

Originally posted by usualsuspect
How do you know eircom aren't just sending you spam so you'll pay them 2 euros to get rid of it?

Best bet might be to use a different email address other than your eircom one. In any case it makes it easier to switch ISPs if you don't use an email address tied to your ISP:>>>>>>>>>>" good man

Oh yeah they're spamming their users for sure:rolleyes: Now to answer your question after spending years having to abandon accounts I found the best thing to do is to operate three email accounts, What I do is use one for friends, work, banking, ect another for trusted sites like boards.ie and software vendors whose products you use and anywhere you are possitive is not going to bring you a **** load of spam and a third address for everything else that needs an email address this is the account that wiil get the spam and an occasional mass delete takes care of it. In my experience having done this for about three years is account one has never got one piece of spam account two rare usually only happens when someone on a site like boards abuses the email user facility and account three packed with spam which never makes it to my inbox as I delete it from the server. Result I see little or no spam. and BTW they are all eircom accounts which invalidates the previous posters wild assumptions.

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That is a good idea, but what I neglected to mention in my original post (because I didn't want to go into minute details) is that the account isn't actually mine, but my mam's. She is completely computer illiterate so having more than one account would be a hassle. She only uses her account to e-mail one or two people ever, but she also uses it when buying stuff online, so it's probably that reason why she's getting all this crap.

Reason I think it might be some spamming program is that her e-mail address is just her name and surname, and a lot of the mails have her first name in the titles.

Thanks for the reply though!

usualsuspect

Redshift you sound a little naive. You poor dear!

Karoma

And you sound paranoid.

Download the mail through a client with spam filtering installed..

or

Get yourself some proper email/hosting - and use POP3 or alias' or else use the (free) spamgourmet.org -- change your reply-to address to somethingbig.99.x@spamgourmet.org or set your Reply-To address each time, can be messy if you don't have a nice email client, but maybe worth it...

Seth Brundle

just download mailwasher