Re: fake Microsoft emails and Yahoo Mail

From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.nix)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:51:00 -0600

Felix Oscar wrote:
> Most of the fake emails go to my Bulk folder which is nice but
> sometimes 1-2 get into my Inbox, assumedly because they have a new
> domain name. Is there anything I can do besides just keep classifying
> them as spam?
>
> Sometimes it overloads my mail too before I can delete them.

I wouldn't rely just on Yahoo's spam filtering to get rid of the crap.
You might want to use SpamPal (for additional spam filtering) and
YahooPOPs to access (for free) your Yahoo account(s).

e-mail client <-- SpamPal <-- YahooPOPs <-- Yahoo

SpamPal and YahooPOPs run as local proxies. SpamPal support POP3,
IMAP4, and SMTP (but not WebDAV, HTTPmail, or proprietary webmail
interfaces). YahooPOPs is an HTTP-to-POP3 protocol converter proxy.

You can even triple up on the spam filtering. I have Norton Internet
Security 2003 which includes its SpamAlert product. It will scan
incoming e-mails for spam, too. That way, I have Yahoo's spam
filtering, SpamPal's spam detection, and SpamAlert's spam detection
along with some of my own rules (far better than what you can define at
Yahoo although I still have some rules at Yahoo to do some
pre-filtering). 

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