My main business website has been around for over 5 years now. I can not believe I missed it’s 5th birthday. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! Anyway, that also means that my main business email address has too. Over the years, as you could imagine I’ve been getting more and more spam in my inbox. Last night, I snapped…
I’ve not properly counted it but I was getting anywhere from 20 or 30 to 50 spam emails A DAY. That may not sound like a lot to some of you but come on…..it’s bad enough. Going away for the weekend and coming back to nearly 150 spam emails is a joke.
I have had Thunderbird as my mail program of choice for some time now and although the spam filter is excellent, I decided to bite the bullet and go for a paid solution that would hopefully be better.
After surfing around for a while I came across spamcop. I looked into it and had a browse around their site and last night I paid for a years subscription. After all it was only $30 for a whole year! That, to me, is excellent value. If it reduces the amount of crap that lands in my inbox its got to be a good thing.
After less than 12 hours of using it, it has already caught 15 items of spam!
For those of you who don’t know, here’s how it works:
You sign up for the service and choose what you want your email address to be. Something like whatever@spamcop.net etc. Fill out a couple more fields and pay via Paypal.
Once your payment has gone through (a minute or so) you can access spamcop’s webmail service (for your new email address), but this is where the best bit comes in.
If you’re like me, you’ll want to keep your old email address, so you set up the system with your old email addresses POP3 settings, then in your email client, setup your email to check your spamcop email address.
This way email going to your old email address enters the spamcop system first, then gets filtered etc, then you get it out again by checking your spamcop email address. It sounds complicated but it really isn’t. From paying for my subscription to having set up the system was literally 5 or 10 minutes flat!
So, my moral of this story? If you’re getting that much crap in your inbox that it’s becoming unusable, for a mere $30 a year you can have industry standard spam filtering that seems at first look to be second to none.
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