What can be done to reduce the amount of spam that is sent to and email account?
All of our servers filter email against the Spamhaus Block List (SBL) and Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL). Spamhaus focuses on blocking professional spammers and spam gangs, which according to Spamhaus, are responsible for around 80% of the spam on the internet. This will filter a large quantly of the spam that our servers receive before it even reaches your mailbox. For more info, please see the Spamhaus SBL FAQ.
• use your email program’s spam filter Most email programs,have a very good built-in anti-spam feature that you can train to identify and filter spam. There are also many shareware applications available that will process all of your email first then tag any potential spam. The advantage to filtering to a separate spam/junk mail folder, rather than just deleting email identified as spam, is that that way you can deal with the filtered email when you have time to and if your spam filter misidentified something as spam (i.e. a false positive), you will not lose potentially valid email. • don’t use a mailto tag to display your email addresses If you link to the email addresses on your website using a mailto tag, then there’s a good chance that a spambot will find your email address and start spamming it. Alternate display methods include using a contact form script, munging or obfuscating you email address, displaying your email address as an image or using JavaScript to create a mailto l
• use your email program’s spam filter Most email programs have a very good built-in anti-spam feature that you can train to identify and filter spam. There are also many shareware applications available that will process all of your email first then tag any potential spam. The advantage to filtering to a separate spam/junk mail folder, rather than just deleting email identified as spam, is that that way you can deal with the filtered email when you have time to and if your spam filter misidentified something as spam (i.e. a false positive), you will not lose potentially valid email. • don’t use a mailto tag to display your email addresses If you link to the email addresses on your website using a mailto tag, then there’s a good chance that a spambot will find your email address and start spamming it. Alternate display methods include using a contact form script, munging or obfuscating you email address, displaying your email address as an image or using JavaScript to create a mailto l
