How can I avoid all spam-messages to my business mail?
How can I avoid all spam-messages to my business mail? I get tons each day! I have the usual accounts: info@mydomain.com, myname@mydomain.com, payment@mydomain.com, admin@mydomain.com
I have to have them publicly available so my customers can send translation projects to me (many urgent jobs from completely new customers that view my online profile, see my e-mail and send a job immediately). So there is no way to hide my e-mail and ask a customer to first contact me through another e-mail or something like that.
I use a webmail and the hosting provider is Just Host. Are there any settings I can use for the webmail to avoid too much spam? Or anti-spam software?
I have to have them publicly available so my customers can send translation projects to me (many urgent jobs from completely new customers that view my online profile, see my e-mail and send a job immediately). So there is no way to hide my e-mail and ask a customer to first contact me through another e-mail or something like that.
I use a webmail and the hosting provider is Just Host. Are there any settings I can use for the webmail to avoid too much spam? Or anti-spam software?
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Could a software like this work?:
http://www.anti-spam-software.com/
Lots of the spam seem to be very similar in structure (although I can't directly say what it is). Can a software like this be of any help, if I use right settings in it?
http://www.anti-spam-software.com/
Lots of the spam seem to be very similar in structure (although I can't directly say what it is). Can a software like this be of any help, if I use right settings in it?
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paulmacd, I think you are right!:
I get most spam to info@mydomain.com but, when I think of it, nothing comes to myname@mydomain.com. And also to payment@mydomain.com. So perhaps it would make a lot of difference to only use myname@mydomain.com.
I get most spam to info@mydomain.com but, when I think of it, nothing comes to myname@mydomain.com. And also to payment@mydomain.com. So perhaps it would make a lot of difference to only use myname@mydomain.com.
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Or perhaps use something more unusual, still possible to associate to the common "info@mydomain.com" and "payment@mydomain.com", like "information@mydomain.com"
Could this work?
Could this work?
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Actually I checked now on the site I have my profile at, and it says on the tab Contact/E-mail address that my e-mail address is only visible for me. For any visitor to my profile that wants to send an e-mail to me, he needs to use the E-mail sending function at the top of the page (to prevent spammers, according to the information on this site).
Other than this site, I don't have my e-mail addresses publicly available so I wonder how I still can get so much spam? Or perhaps, when I sign up for memberships, at miscellaneous sites etc. if I use my business e-mail address, that could be the reason.
As paulmacd said: "when the cat is out of the bag...", is the only solution to change e-mail addresses to avoid the spam? Or can I somehow prevent the existing spam-messages to reappear in my inbox, then try to delete my business e-mail addresses at various sites?
Other than this site, I don't have my e-mail addresses publicly available so I wonder how I still can get so much spam? Or perhaps, when I sign up for memberships, at miscellaneous sites etc. if I use my business e-mail address, that could be the reason.
As paulmacd said: "when the cat is out of the bag...", is the only solution to change e-mail addresses to avoid the spam? Or can I somehow prevent the existing spam-messages to reappear in my inbox, then try to delete my business e-mail addresses at various sites?
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My free webmail account works great with spam: GMX. In the inbox, most of the spam gets redirected to the spam-folder. So perhaps I should talk with Just Host and see if they can do anything with the settings. I haven't even configured GMX for preventing spam, it has worked very well from the beginning (and I have received a lot of e-mails). I just checked now: absolutely no spam in the inbox during this whole year! So perhaps my business mail is being targeted.
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On the other hand, the format for my GMX-account is companyname.inc@gmx.com
So it's not so easy for spammers to find it.
So it's not so easy for spammers to find it.
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That said, there's little you're going to be able to do to eliminate all spam for the very reasons you cite. One possibility is to create a white list of addresses you know are valid, but that's probably not a practical solution.