Spam emails how to get rid of them permanently?

[Bazzle218]

Over the last few months my spam emails have multiplied 10 fold. I flag each as junk, but they are back the next day. Other then start with a new email address. Is there any program that actually works? i was running Windows defender had the same issues and im currently running Bit defender. Using Hot mail. [bawl]

[incisor]

get rid of hotmail :p

gmail has more advanced anti spam and unsubscribe mechanisms

keep the hotmail address but forward to gmail and pickup from there and mark the rubbish you continue to get as spam and eventually it sorts it

but you will always get some..

[p38arover]

I get very little through on my gmail accounts. When I look at gmail directly, I see a lot in the spam folders.

[incisor]

I get very little through on my gmail accounts. When I look at gmail directly, I see a lot in the spam folders.

thats the point..... it gets it out of your inbox

you can check through the spam folders to make sure you can unmark them as spam and then hit the delete all spam to get rid of them

nothing stops all of them before they are deilvered as it is reactive technology

[DazzaTD5]

My issue was the work email address for years was listed on my webpage and all the social media sites.
I did delete it off the webpage and social media sites where I could but it had been publicly available for years so was well out there.
I deleted it (well I set it on my hosting Co as not receive, so it will bounce back as not valid).
It is still listed as the contact for my domain name as if you put a new email address its publicly visible again.
Yes you can use different spam filters etc, but it still mean checking that spam folder now and then for any legit emails that have ended up there, not what I want to do.

New email address for customers is via the website form.
Zero spam that was at 50 or so a day.
If it gets leaked out then maybe in another 10 years I will have to go through all this again.
or rather some tech company that is reassuring customers about security will get hacked and it will get leaked.

spammers with all their bull**** have turned a perfectly workable system of emails into a pile of ****

[incisor]

Any email address is vulnerable if they do a dictionary lookup on your email server.

It is part of how the protocol is implemented

They say “helo” then the incoming asks if the address they are trying to send to is valid.. if receiving server says ok then your email address is added to the list of valid addresses to be spammed…

Until the protocol is changed its only a matter of time till your spammed or your address is used by a spammer to send spam…

[Tins]

thats the point..... it gets it out of your inbox

you can check through the spam folders to make sure you can unmark them as spam and then hit the delete all spam to get rid of them

nothing stops all of them before they are deilvered as it is reactive technology

Mail does the same thing. I very quickly scan to see nothing is in there that shouldn't be and hit delete. Takes 10 sec. I think people would be amazed at how much of the stuff actually does get stopped at the server level.

[p38arover]

I also use a program called MailWasher Pro to scan incoming mail (I have 7 email accounts for different purposes).

[BradC]

Any email address is vulnerable if they do a dictionary lookup on your email server.
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Until the protocol is changed its only a matter of time till your spammed or your address is used by a spammer to send spam…

Agree. fail2ban and server configuration can help with the dictionary lookups. DMARC (DKIM & SPF) can help with a spammer pretending to be you.

Managing your own mailserver is like an arms race.

Regardless, inbound spam of some kind is inevitable.

[incisor]

Agree. fail2ban and server configuration can help with the dictionary lookups. DMARC (DKIM & SPF) can help with a spammer pretending to be you.

Managing your own mailserver is like an arms race.

Regardless, inbound spam of some kind is inevitable.I use all 3 but it doesn't and can't stop it all...