Comments on: Email False Positives – My New Daily Tragedy

By: Vibol

Vibol — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:51:20 +0000

I use Google Mail to filter through my spam. So far, so good. I haven’t seen any false positives yet, and once in a while a single negative gets through (I’d say once every 14 hours).

What you do is the following. Signup for a Google Mail account. Setup a private email box that can’t be guessed. Setup Google Mail to forward and archive all mail to this private email box. Setup all your original addresses to forward to your Google Mail address.

Works for me, and it could work for you.

By: Curt

Curt — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:45:29 +0000

I feel your pain. I used to have at least 800 spam messages a day. Two things worked for me. One will be useful to you and one probably won’t. The one that probably won’t is Cloudmark spam filter. I think it might be just for PC (sorry), but not only does it use an algorithm tofilter but also has a database of known spam marked by real humans. It works really well. The other thing that helped was switching hosting companies. We were previously using XO Commincations and it was terrible. They don’t filter anything. When we switched to EasyCGI my spam went down to about 30 a day (and those were caught by Cloudmark). Just thought I’d chime in, cause I so know your pain.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:19:22 +0000

Negative, Ghostrider.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:01:08 +0000

Cap’N Crunch cereal tears up the roof of my mouth. Could this be the cure to your email blues?

By: Kim C.

Kim C. — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:23:09 +0000

Jester–

I feel your pain and had the same sense that Mail had lost its mind somewhere along the line. I was about to give up on it when someone clued me into SpamSieve.

http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

Best use of $30 I’ve made in awhile.