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| Thread ID: 66032 | 2006-02-08 19:23:00 | How often does Xtra update its Spam filter database? | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 428628 | 2006-02-08 19:23:00 | For many months now we have been receiving the same rubbish spam, offering Viagara pills and the like, and more recently stock market get in early tips. The thing is, apart from the email Title line occasionally changing, the body of the email remains unchanged. That being the case, you would think it would be reasonably easy for Xtra Spam filter to catch this rubbish and delete it from their servers. My wife is in the habit of Fwding the offending emails back to Xtra Spam address, but it makes no difference, we still get 10-20 rubbish email daily. So, how long does Xtra take to detect and start removing this rubbish from our mailboxes. |
John W (523) | ||
| 428629 | 2006-02-08 19:32:00 | How have you got you spam filter setup. xtra.co.nz Your Choice : if you regularly use your Xtra email account you decide how you want to deal with spam. You can choose to have it deleted before it arrives, or send it to a separate folder in your mailbox, or mark it up as "[SPAM]" before it gets sent to your inbox. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 428630 | 2006-02-08 20:00:00 | :mad: Clear are the same these days - Pills and Stock buys - about 2 or 3 a day. | Peter H (220) | ||
| 428631 | 2006-02-08 20:18:00 | I've got my Xtra spam filter set to leave spam on the server in the "spam" folder. For the most part it works fairly well and catches most spam, however lately I've noticed a few smam e-mails "slipping thru", not a whole lot though. Maybe their anti-smam filters need some tweaking. |
Mackin_NZ (6958) | ||
| 428632 | 2006-02-08 23:02:00 | How have you got you spam filter setup. xtra.co.nz Your Choice : if you regularly use your Xtra email account you decide how you want to deal with spam. You can choose to have it deleted before it arrives, or send it to a separate folder in your mailbox, or mark it up as "[SPAM]" before it gets sent to your inbox. That's a joke. I have it set to delete before it arrives but have been getting steadily increasing amounts of spam. Much of the spam has been passed through the Yahoo spam filter and has [spam] attached to the header yet the Xtra filter cannot identify it as spam. Our company spam filter works far better than the Xtra one. I can't see why the Xtra filter is so ineffective at picking obvious spam, and it's getting worse. And before the resident member replies with 'but the filter service is free', we pay for it one way or another. Nothing you get from Xtra is free. |
user (1404) | ||
| 428633 | 2006-02-09 00:20:00 | For months now (years?) I have been getting 5 - 10 emails per day from offers@freelotto . com advising me I have won amounts from $5000 to $446 million . All I have to do is reply . Every now and then I use the "Report as Spam" button within XtraMail . Nothing ever changes . It's mind-blowing that this somehow is not defined as spam by Xtra . I even searched this forum and found that freelotto was spamming people back in 2002 ( . pressf1 . co . nz/showthread . php?t=15206&highlight=freelotto" target="_blank">www . pressf1 . co . nz) . Fortunately I use Mailwasher at home, so I never see them, but if I use XtraMail (web mail) I can spend ages wading through the dross . |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 428634 | 2006-02-09 00:40:00 | Use something like Spampal or Poptray . Both are free . BOTH can blacklist / whitelist emails / ISPS . Poptray will also show where the email is from / let u preview the email, before it gets to OE / whatever . It sits in the taskbar, and u can configure it to scan for email every few secs or mins . When u get an email, it shows the numbers of emails you've received . Then u can add whatever email/s to the blacklist for good . Or add email/s to the whitelist . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 428635 | 2006-02-09 01:57:00 | It's almost as if XTRA is allowing a lot of mail to bypass the filters?? Perhaps they are preventing a 'Paradise' problem? But, yea, have to agree that it wouldn't be rocket science to pick up lots of these things that get through . So, if they are not by-passing the filters, they should be demanding the filter supplier shape up . |
linw (53) | ||
| 428636 | 2006-02-09 05:10:00 | From what I understand Xtra's mail filter is connected to one of the spam databases in the States and there's nothing much they can do about it until Uncle Sam updates. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Mailwasher used to be the program I used to filter spam, but I find Thunderbird does a reasonable enough job. |
Antmannz (6583) | ||
| 428637 | 2006-02-09 05:52:00 | I've been wondering what I did recently to start acquiring 1 to 2 spam a day, when Xtra was previously filtering out all but the very occasional one. Reading this shows it isn't ME, after all... I too was a bit grumpy about why they hadn't blocked these ( Pills & stock buys, as Peter H says), though I noted each one came from a new sender. Then while away 2 weeks ago, I used a neighbour's laptop to access my old Xtra webmail, which I'd never configured. I was appalled to find 478 spam emails there. As I understand the webmail's held for only a month, the mind boggles at what I'd be getting at home without the filter. One interesting point, though. The last time I used webmail was October - and there wasn't the same deluge then. So has there been a huge increase recently (These stock buys are fairly new to me, for instance) rather than the steady growth of the previous year or so? |
Laura (43) | ||
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