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| Thread ID: 114464 | 2010-12-04 00:50:00 | What use is a spam filter? | porkster (6331) | PC World Chat |
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| 1158614 | 2010-12-04 04:39:00 | Over a spam filter??!! I found Xnets one did get retrained doing that. Some do, some don't. Either way, use your own. Thunderbird has one built in 1. My email is getting stuck in xnet's spam filter - which they can't turn off. 2. I have a spam filtering program called Mailwasher but I can't use it to its full extent because xnet is holding back some of my email. 3. My attempts at "training the filter" are being thwarted by others, see Xnet's reply in the original post. 4. I pay extra money to xnet for additional e-mail accounts. 5. At times I'm losing money (not happening as much lately) or not making the savings I could because I'm not getting timely mail. So yes, I will look at changing ISPs over a spam filter. |
porkster (6331) | ||
| 1158615 | 2010-12-04 05:33:00 | I gave up on ISP email address quite a while ago and only use gmail now and have never had a problem since | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1158616 | 2010-12-04 08:43:00 | I've never used any ISP's spam email filters. None of them work properly anyway. Actually some paid for programs dont work either. Thats exactly what I did because of the slowness with Xnet. Changed to telstra last week, and got connected yesterday. A hell of a lot of difference in speed. At least I can download anything, anytime of the day now. Instead of downloading at dialup speed I have found Gmails spam filter to be very good. Yahoo/Xtra is crap. Thunderbirds spam filter is pretty good once it has been trained. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1158617 | 2010-12-04 08:50:00 | I agree gmail is good. I use it for most of the sites I go to. And forward emails from there to my normal ISP | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1158618 | 2010-12-04 09:02:00 | Just watch out for Xtra as well, they changed their spam filters a while back, and lots of people are not getting mail they should, once again,its caught in the spam filters Well, I am only going by my own experience which so far has been very good. I get probably one or two legitimate emails in the spam folder a month, which are usually from some obscure forum I just signed up to. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1158619 | 2010-12-04 21:26:00 | I agree gmail is good. I use it for most of the sites I go to. And forward emails from there to my normal ISP Same here. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1158620 | 2010-12-05 02:34:00 | I agree gmail is good. I use it for most of the sites I go to. And forward emails from there to my normal ISP I just use pop3 within Thunderbird. I don't see the point of forwarding them to my ISP. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1158621 | 2010-12-05 02:40:00 | Not all emails get forwarded from Gmail. Family and mates have my normal email | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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