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Re: [LUG] Email security

 

Simon Waters wrote:
> NW wrote:
>> On my emails I get hardly any spam. (I don't have any filters set up for
>> myself.) My wife gets lots. We have a web site and I use the email set
>> up on there (IMAP). Recently I have persuaded the wife to move across to
>> using emails on our web site to try to avoid her getting so much rubbish.
> 
> Why did you think the method of collecting emails would affect spam,
> which is to do with delivery?
> 
> Presumably something else changed?
> 
>> Don't ask me why, but she has started getting rubbish emails already. I
>> have set up some filters, which are already having to block over forty
>> addresses!
> 
> I don't understand, you block individual sender addresses?
> 
> Why not just use Thunderbird's built in Junk filtering tool?
> 
Because she doesn't use TB. She uses XP and outlook express. I have
never used that so I. I must look at it to see if there is any junk
filtering tool.

Neil

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