[Hidden-tech] So much junk mail!

[Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com]

Another alternative in this war on SPAM is to use Gmail.  They have the best spam filtering there is.

So you could use a personal or business Gmail account for your email to go thru.

For a free, personal account... you would authorize it to send emails in the name of your existing email address.  (So you can use gmail to send emails that appear to be from 'myname at mydomain.com') and you set your emails to be automatically forwarded to the gmail address (you do this in your web host's email settings).

If you go with a google business account, you can have all your domain's email directed to the gmail business email server and they truly handle your business email services (for a fee, of course).

Chris Hart
     Computer Support & Technology Consulting
        for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts
            Tel: 860-291-9393
                chris at chrishart.net
                    http://www.MyMacTech.com
			


On Jul 20, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com <chris at chrishart.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> If you were to be using (or switch to) an IMAP configuration (in Apple Mail on your Mac and on your iPhone), and keep your Mac awake (and Mail open), spam sieve will be effective on your phone, too :)
> 
> http://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/iphone-spam-filtering
> 
> Chris Hart
>      Computer Support & Technology Consulting
>         for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts
>             Tel: 860-291-9393
>                 chris at chrishart.net
>                     http://www.MyMacTech.com
> 			 
> 
> On Jul 19, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Annamarie Pluhar <annamarie at pluharconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for this. Recently I was without computer but on iPhone only for 
>> a week and was appalled by all the spam I get (SpamSieve deleting it on 
>> my computer.) We'll see how the settings my web hosting changes things.
>> 
>> 
>> Annamarie Pluhar
>> 
>> Pluhar Consulting
>> http://www.pluharconsulting.com
>> 802.451.1941
>> 802.579.5975 (cell)
>> 
>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 15:51, Chris Hart wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't remember if you received useful responses, or not, Christine.
>>> 
>>> For some reason I didn't see your posting until now, so I thought I'd 
>>> respond...
>>> 
>>> One thing you could do is look at the spam settings in your web 
>>> hosting interface.  Many web hosts have spam filter adjustments, that 
>>> you can increase/decrease to customize the percentage of junk/real 
>>> mail you get.  Many web hosts use spam assassin which has a default 
>>> setting of 5.  I would suggest lowering it to 3 (which 
>>> counterintuitively is more aggressive).
>>> 
>>> If you find that's not effective enough, you could talk to your web 
>>> host about a premium anti-spam solution (that you would have to pay 
>>> them an additional fee for).
>>> 
>>> Lastly, you could use SpamSieve on your Mac....
>>> http://c-command.com/spamsieve/ <http://c-command.com/spamsieve/>
>>> Which is very effective and can be trained for the types of junk you 
>>> receive.
>>> 
>>> Chris Hart
>>>  Computer Support & Technology Consulting
>>>     for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts
>>>         Tel: 860-291-9393
>>>             chris at chrishart.net
>>>                 http://www.MyMacTech.com
>>> 			
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Christine Polaczak 
>>>> <chris at cpdesignworks.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dear Hidden-Tech gurus,
>>>> 
>>>> Just recently, my email Junk folder has become over-filled with 
>>>> unsolicited mail — over 100 each morning and many more throughout 
>>>> the day.
>>>> 
>>>> Short of changing my email address, is there a way to stop the flood 
>>>> of junk? I use Mac Mail on a MacBook Pro with iOS Yosemite v 10.10.3.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks on advance for your sage advice.
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>> Christine Polaczak
>>>> chris at cpdesignworks.com <mailto:chris at cpdesignworks.com>
>>>> 413 539-3582
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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