My wife came home today and tells me that one of her friends is asking (me)
what she can do to get rid of spam in her email. Well I happily don't have
a spam problem so I really don't know what to advise. The only system I've
even looked at over the years is Mailwasher http://www.mailwasher.net/ I
did have a spam problem back then but moved host and now receive no more
than perhaps 10 a week.

The person this is for isn't too clued up on computers but knows her way
around. She uses email, web and writes letters and I think that's about it,
so the simpler to use the better. I've done the searches in Google et al,
but as they all claim to be the best/simplest... who can tell? So I'm
hoping some folks here can recommend from personal experience. Free is
always good but I guess she would be willing to pay for the right solution.

PC running Windows XP (and I guess) Outlook Express.

Thanks for reading,
Neil

Ex-tiscali wrote:

> The only system I've even looked at over the years is Mailwasher

No, else she will be tempted to use that 'bounce' feature, and that is
not good at all.

> PC running Windows XP (and I guess) Outlook Express.

Tell her to upgrade to Thunderbird. It has built-in, trainable Junk mail
controls.

Have her check with her ISP and see if they have a spam filter she has
not activated. (Mine has the ability to turn it off.)

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

"Ex-tiscali" <neilr@pages-uk.com> wrote:


> PC running Windows XP (and I guess) Outlook Express.

1) create a gmail account
2) forward current account to gmail
3) fetch email from gmail (POP3)

--
John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/

On Mar 5, 11:53 pm, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote:
> "Ex-tiscali" <ne...@pages-uk.com> wrote:
> > PC running Windows XP (and I guess) Outlook Express.
>
> 1) create a gmail account
> 2) forward current account to gmail
> 3) fetch email from gmail (POP3)

Gmail works great for me too.
As john says, no need to close your old account, just redirect it to
Gmail

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:vcFzj.711422$kj1.195158@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Ex-tiscali wrote:
>
>> The only system I've even looked at over the years is Mailwasher
>
> No, else she will be tempted to use that 'bounce' feature, and that is
> not good at all.

OK wasn't aware of that at all.
>
>> PC running Windows XP (and I guess) Outlook Express.
>
> Tell her to upgrade to Thunderbird. It has built-in, trainable Junk mail
> controls.

Got it on my list.

>
> Have her check with her ISP and see if they have a spam filter she has
> not activated. (Mine has the ability to turn it off.)

I don't know who she uses (yet) but I've got that one on my list as well.

Thanks for responding.

Neil

"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A58ABC5DF481castleamber@130.133.1.4...
> "Ex-tiscali" <neilr@pages-uk.com> wrote:
>
>
>> PC running Windows XP (and I guess) Outlook Express.
>
> 1) create a gmail account
> 2) forward current account to gmail
> 3) fetch email from gmail (POP3)

Hmm... didn't realise their filtering was so successful (just been reading
up on it). Sounds like the simplest and possibly most effective solution.

Many thanks.
Neil