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Thread ID: 90245	2008-05-27 22:35:00	Help with spam filtering on KOL	excelsa (5950)	Press F1

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673190	2008-05-27 22:35:00	I am teaching a friend to use email. He has a KOL account. He frequently receives unsolicited spam emails (viagra etc). Are there any KOL account holders out there who can advise how we can set up his account to filter these emails from the webmail site before they download into Outlook Express. We can filter OK in Outlook Express but we don't want to download the emails in the first place (he is on dial-up). We've tried going into KOL mail options to set filtering rules but the site says that filtering is not enable for this account. The KOL help system is not that helpful! We also tried to set up a spam folder but the help system on the KOL website wasn't that helpful. Many Thanks	excelsa (5950)
673191	2008-05-27 23:56:00	I'm with KOL dial up, and because they are cheap they do have a bare bones system including their help section. In fact they often use Orcon's servers (You can check by doing a trace route by typing tracert www.kol.co.nz at the command prompt). KOL told me they use Orcon's servers during busy times... Try snapfiles freeware email tools (www.snapfiles.com) to look for a anti spam program (under the category section) that catches spam on the servers...	kahawai chaser (3545)
673192	2008-05-28 01:31:00	If it is not too much of a problem, create a new email address and discontinue the old. If your address is: freddagg@kol just put a full stop in: fred.dagg@kol. DO NOT give you address to anyone else but family and trusted friends. If you need to give your address to anyone else, use a third party address. I use mailinator.com and receive almost no spam at all. Have a look at their site. Another is spambob.com and all spam goes to their address not yours. You can make up a name - any name - for your mailinator address and it does not have to be the same each time. Call it fred@mailinator.com and then go to their site, ask for mail for fred, retrieve your mail and let them send as much spam to that address as they like - you don't receive any. What fun! Use it for passwords, activations, etc. Works very well.	Roscoe (6288)
673193	2008-05-28 08:06:00	since moving to gmail I receive absolutely NO spam in my outlook inbox and only occasionally is there any in the webmail spam folder	gary67 (56)
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