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472967 2006-07-23 10:22:00 Hello to you all
Has anyone an idea how to get rid of the spam at a ;xxx @xtra.co.nz email address?
I had a look at the webmail settings but there is very little that can be done regarding spam??
Any clues? :confused:


Regards

Gion
notechyet (4479)
472968 2006-07-23 10:43:00 The default should be to delete anything that Xtra has identified as spam. Then under "Allow and block messages" you can include specific domains or addresses that you don't want email from. PaulD (232)
472969 2006-07-23 18:22:00 Thanks Paul

To me it looks that xtra is not idntifying the spam properly as I seem to get quite a lot. Allow and block messages seems to me a big undertaking as the spam addresses change all the time and I would not be able to keep up with it.
Comparing this with my domain email address shows the difference.
So it looks that I just have to put up with it????
notechyet (4479)
472970 2006-07-24 03:32:00 xtra are abominable at stopping spam. For some reason they just can't/don't stop it as effectively as many other ISP's do. So there really is only one way to 'fix' this - change your email account provider. If you want to stay with xtra, you could change to a gmail account, for example. Google does a very good job at spam filtering. linw (53)
472971 2006-07-24 04:06:00 I automatically forward all my XTRA mail to my GMAIL account & then retrieve it from there, it doesn't get everything but it's a big improvement on XTRAs spam filter. snoopy (74)
472972 2006-07-24 05:16:00 That's an interesting, if circuitous, solution :D linw (53)
472973 2006-07-24 06:22:00 snoopy
Thanks for that, I have just done as you suggested.
Let's see.
Regards
G
notechyet (4479)
472974 2006-07-24 09:43:00 They recently changed it. Or improved it. Or something. Since then its been hopeless.
Could try moaning at them....works sometimes.
pctek (84)
472975 2006-07-24 21:27:00 pctek, thanks
I will do that also and hope for things to get better.
G
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