Junk mail

[paula121s]

Hi

I have a hotmail e mail account, the junk setting is at its highest but over the last week I seem to have been getting a huge amount of junk mail in both inbox and junk mailboxes. Is anyone else having the same problems? I a morning I have had so far 35 junk emails!!

Apart from cancelling this e mail address does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

Paula

[cyprusishome]

The biggest source of junk, IMO, is from forwarde e-mails.

IE When you forward jokes etc and people do not delete your e-address before forwarding on. All these addresses are "harvested" later by somone who ultimatley receives that forwarded msg.

DO NOT FORWARD e-mails is a way of cutting down on the junk but if you do put a big notice for the receiver to delete your address before they forward.

With the mail you have received make sure you mark as junk or phishing scam and delete. Also add the address to your blocked mail file.

[MoBry]

I've always found hotmail the worst for junk mail, when we were moving here and had no fixed address, we used gmail and it seems far more secure.

[Halffull]

I agree with Mobry I did the same, my hotmail account was full of junk moved to Gmail and get very little at all

[Mel7348]

Yahoo is pretty junk free as well.

[Philoz]

G mail is the best by far in my opinion-I have G mail and google calender which is excellent-And synch it all with Outlook on my main computer.

[paula121s]

Thanks for the replies, sounds like I may have to ditch hotmail!!

[stellasstar1]

I have Webmail, which has a special section for Black addresses, so each time I get something I don't want, I just blacklist it.

[How188]

Hi Paula, I suggest you do your address cahnge when you get home and choose your new network provider.
Then you can use your address book to notify those people who you want have you new address.
Sorry we did not mange to meet up before I went home my "problem" re-occured.
Keep in touch.
Howard@Zeytinlik

[mickhm]

I also use hotmail and It was quite good until they migrated me to outlook. I don't like outlook so I changed it back to hotmail and since then my jun k mail has gone through the roof.I think it's a vendetta cos I won't use outlook

[How188]

I believe, as a long term Outlook user, if you were to tailor outlook junk mail handling you would solve your problem completely.
Takes a little effort in the beginning but well worth it.