Jeff,
The only solution I have found is to use a
service. The service that I use is spamarrest...
An email cannot get through until the sender
email address has been approved. Approval can come in one
of two ways... you can pre-approve the specific email address or
even any address from a specific url ( people from the office
)... Or, when someone that hasn't been pre-approved sends you
an email, they get a reply from spamarrest. They have to respond to
this email, answer a question - confirm they are a real person - or their email
isn't delivered... (but you can go through those if you
want to) Once they do this verification process once, the first
time, any and all future emails from their email address go through
normally.
I use spamarrest for my office and my home
email... I get ZERO spam emails... no exageration... maybe one or
two a month who send through a false paypal or ebay email address... but
spamarrest picks those up pretty quick..
Now, there are a couple of
downsides....
1 - it causes problems with lists..
group email lists, where all kinds of unknow email addresses can pop
up... causes aggrevation and constirnation for the list
members... hence my email address for this list email2013@k4ama.com I'll
just change this list address annually, and the email associated with this
address do not go through spamarrest.
2 - Some folks think their emails are 'bouncing'
when they get the reply from spamarrest. They get this apparent form
letter and assume a bounce rather than actually reading the email, and
responding to it. Send me an email at tony@taustin.com and you'll see
what the spamarrest reply looks like.
3 - Unfortunately, the service is not
free.... it isn't expensive, I think we pay $10 a month but they
have plans for only a few dollars a month I think...
It works great... but as with most things that
actually work... it comes at a small cost.
Hope that helps !!
73, Tony K4AMA
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 8:40
PM
Subject: [SECC] question on email
I’ve always been careful with my email address (call@arrl.net), but somewhere along the line
spammers must have gotten it. I now get about 100 spam emails a
day.
They go in the spam folder, but once in a while a good
email goes there too, so I must weed through them. Anyone have
method for getting off the spammer list without abandoning the email
address?
Jeff
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