So let’s say you’ve tried every trick in the book. You use an (at) and a (dot) instead of an @ and a period whenever you tell someone your email, you never show anyone your email address in public, and you even have a dummy account to pick up the spam whenever you sign up for a new forum, but you still have to delete about a dozen messages before finding the one useful email somewhere at the bottom of your inbox.
It’s not as bad as it was some years ago, when we were all still pretty new to the internet, and there wasn’t much you could do about spam besides but click the check box for “Delete all”, then go through all your checkmarked emails and uncheck the ones from people you know. But… it’s still pretty bad. We’re still getting invitations to free adult sites and webcam shows, we’re still being asked about our sex life by complete strangers, and we’re still being asked to share personal information with fictional foreign dignitaries.
So, of course, you need a spam filter, and one that simply gets the job done.
If you want something simple, no frills, just a simple spam filter that gets the job done without having to be configured, programmed, manually updated and on and on, just try POPfile. POPfile may well be the most effective free spam filter out there if you just want to keep spam out of your inbox without having to put in more work than it takes to sift through them in the first place.
However, if you like a few options with your antispam filter, eXpurgate is also pretty easy to use. You’ll have to configure it on your own, but the configuration process is surprisingly simple. Just open up “options” and select what you like. See if it blocks all your spam, and if it doesn’t, switch a few options around until it does. Easy as that.
Whatever you do, don’t leave yourself unprotected. A single spam message is like a cockroach. Even if you delete it, it means that the spammers have a foothold in your inbox. Somebody has sold your email address to a spammer, and that spammer is going to sell it to other spammers. Don’t wait around. The second you see a single spam message, kill it, and then put up the roach traps (and by roach traps, we mean, of course, a spam filter!).
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