HOT 199: Managing Spam Emails - Filtering Out Spam Emails in Your Email Acocunts

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Leo Laporte

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On Hands-On Tech, Mikah helps Lars, who is seeking help for a friend who is being flooded with spam emails and is looking for a way to filter out the spam emails!

Mikah strongly recommends transitioning away from ISP-provided email addresses, as they often get shuffled between companies and can face service disruptions
There are also some options to consider when moving from an old email account, such as setting up auto-responses directing to the new address or configuring your new email account to pull from your old account.
Mikah suggests two things to do. The first is to create a Gmail account to leverage its excellent spam filtering capabilities, then configure it to pull mail from the Cox address and connect it to Outlook.
The second option is to use local spam filtering software like Mailwasher, which offers Bayesian filtering that learns from user input to improve spam detection over time.
Other software options to consider are Spambully, Spamfighter, and clean.io, though some may not work without MX record access.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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1:23.6	The show where I, Micah Sargent, take your tech questions and do my best to answer them.
1:30.2	Today, we are getting a question that I think a lot of people have, but it plays out differently
1:37.5	for different people. It's all about the setup that you have. The question comes in from Lars,
1:42.8	who's actually asking a question for a
1:45.2	friend, which is kind of a funny moment because I do genuinely believe that this is a question
1:50.5	for Lars' friend, whereas sometimes when we say asking for a friend, it doesn't really mean that.
1:56.7	Anyway, Lars writes in and says, I am trying to help a friend who is being bombarded with spam and all kinds of scam emails that are threatening to close accounts if he does not increase space in his ICloud account or similar other types of ways to make him pay money to get a fake problem resolved.
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