How to Stop Spam at Your Business

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Spam is flooding inboxes, message boards, newsgroups, user comments, etc with the same message(s). The message is usually commercial advertising for quasi-legal products and services. Spam is lucrative because it costs the spammer little money to send. The brunt of the cost is borne by the recipients or carriers instead of the sender.

Email spam that is targeted at individual users can be more than just an annoyance. Spammers can distribute viruses through email messages sent to your inbox.

There are several ways to stop spam. We have outlined four methods here.

The first method for an organization is to install a corporate spam filter. Continue reading →

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Having Problems With Your Spam Filter? Create Your Own

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Spam filter services normally come with email accounts because it’s a huge problem. At times these spam filters do not do what you want them to. You are constantly taking out email you want to keep and placing it into the spam folder. Eventually, you have to go through your spam folder looking for the email you wanted to read, making the process the same as if you didn’t have a spam filter at all.

One way of dealing with this is to manually make your own filter. The easiest way of doing this is to use a desktop email client like Thunderbird or one that has some sort of filtering ability that comes with it.

When you get your email into your inbox, start making filters to put it into various locations. This way the messages that you don’t want to see won’t be seen by you at all as these will be filtered out from your incoming mail. If you think this sounds too difficult, don’t worry – it really isn’t. Continue reading →

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