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Gmail spam filter

IZ — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:28:31 -0800

How do I create a spam filter in Gmail that immediately deletes spam messages once they have been marked as such by myself? Please note that I already have a filter that deletes spam messages that have been recognized as such by Gmail. The thing is: the messages that are not filtered by Gmail but by myself, still end up in the Spam Folder without being deleted. Just deleting the spam messaged once they enter my inbox is not an option, I would like to report. Thanks.

Spam filtering

zek — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:36:54 -0800

Lately I've been getting more and more spams where the content is delivered as an image. There's no keywords to filter; even the image filename and subject are random words. Are such messages unfilterable? Currently I am using PocoMail, but its filters are not very complex and it's not giving me the ability to trash messages with zero text (which are always spam).

So basically what I'm looking for are what my options are for filtering this kind of crap (and if possible the spams with jumbled up spellings of Ambien / Viagra, etc). These have all been problem areas.

Should I switch to Thunderbird or some other program? Or is server-side (I'm on Dreamhost) or blacklist-based filtering worthwhile?

So tell me all about how you've managed to automate trashing these slippery forms of spam. I am open to any other robust mail program with good anti-spam capability. NO OUTLOOK SOLUTIONS PLEASE; I won't use Outlook. I've filtered spam mostly by hand and PocoMail filters, and have removed most of my addresses from harvesting, which has worked great, but the spam is starting to get bad again.

Someone has been masking my domain name...

spinko — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:26:06 -0800

Someone has been masking my domain name and started to bulk spam. Now when I send an email to a client 9 times out of 10 it will be in their Spam Filter. How can I resolve this. Its really annoying as its a business domain name.

Question number 10084

billsaysthis — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:46:47 -0800

SpamFilter: The last week or two I've been getting the strangest spam, real spam with a wide variety of (normal for spam) message content, that is addressed to some imaginary address at a domain I own, but is posed as a rejection message from the intended recipient's domain. Anyone else who owns a domain having this experience?

How Spam Works

Jonasio — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:03:39 -0800

A question about SPAM. It's a new trick and I'm wondering how they do it. (more inside.)