Website Email

[LindaMight]

Not sure if I am doing the right thing about this....but my email address at linda@lindamight.com gets so much SPAM that it literally takes me hours and hours to delete this sh_t*from my server. I am up to umpteen pages of nothing but crap! I have Mailblocks and that helps, but it doesn't keep the stuff from piling up in my email box on my server.

Anyone have any suggestions? Or is it perfectly normal for a website owner to have to go through thousands of emails each week and manually delete them?

UGH UGH UGH|raygun|

Linda
Linda's Place

[backoffbitch]

set a subject on it and filter it to a "good pile". That way you can just ctrl-a your inbox then hit delete and know the good stuff is in a good folder.

[swedguy]

I use SpamKiller from McAfee. Very few SPAM a day slips in to my inbox

The first I did when I set it up was to change the way I had my email accounts set up.

1 account that is my personal, not listed anywhere. Only people that know about it is people that I email.
1 account that is for LL and TGP submits.
1 that is a catch all.

I have very little filtering on the 2 first, and on the last one I filter pretty hard.

[DangerDave]

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...highlight=spam

DD

[digifan]

Originally posted by LindaMight
Not sure if I am doing the right thing about this....but my email address at linda@lindamight.com gets so much SPAM that it literally takes me hours and hours to delete this sh_t*from my server. I am up to umpteen pages of nothing but crap! I have Mailblocks and that helps, but it doesn't keep the stuff from piling up in my email box on my server.

Anyone have any suggestions? Or is it perfectly normal for a website owner to have to go through thousands of emails each week and manually delete them?

UGH UGH UGH|raygun|

Linda
Linda's Place

Linda,

never post your email addy in this format on boards.. use lnda (at) domain (dot) com.. there are soo many bots out there harvesting email addresses to spam them.

Just my two cents but hope this helps

[LindaMight]

Oh....thanks! I didn't know that.

Linda

[GeorgeTH]

Originally posted by LindaMight
Not sure if I am doing the right thing about this....but my email address at linda@lindamight.com gets so much SPAM that it literally takes me hours and hours to delete this sh_t*from my server. I am up to umpteen pages of nothing but crap! I have Mailblocks and that helps, but it doesn't keep the stuff from piling up in my email box on my server.

Anyone have any suggestions? Linda's Place

Now there's another reason to my thread about free mail services! Sorry - LOL

Honestly:
I also have an email account at my domain, but it hardly gets any spam at all (maybe 3-5 a week)!
Ways to avoid spam:
1. never ever post your email address anywhere (like you did above)!
2. leave the email field blank on board registrations where the board software displays an email link next to your ID (some do this - NOT this one = SMILE!)
3. don't put your email anywhere on your webpages! Nowhere!
Get some contact form script instead, and I prefer to open it in a seperate pop-up page opened via Java (makes the spidering for bots even harder)...
4. try to register your domains under a different email to the one you're using for your domain (but one you're checking very regularly to avoid getting hi-jacked). Some bots spider the whois for email addresses, too.
5. keep the use of your domain email to the minimum, don't send all your emails through this address! The more in-boxes your address ends up in the more chances it gets miss-used by worms exploiting peoples mails and address books.

EDIT: {forgot} if you're not expecting any ongoing emails to arrive at your current address, ask your host to install a new mail name for you, like webmistress |at| yourdomain... But make sure that you change the few important contacts to your new address (won't work, or be really difficult, if you have 100s of important contacts pointing to your current email).
GOOD LUCK!