Comments on: The fight against spam continues

By: I Am Against Spam! and You?

I Am Against Spam! and You? — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:54:11 +0000

Good post

By: robin

robin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:15:23 +0000

I too am knocking on a little like bill prior above and do not expect to have to engage in what are for me complicated tricks to stop spam. I am frankly very negative about trying to use the Manage My Mail tool suggestions because I do not understand the jargon and worry that all my existing contacts will send stuff that never reaches me. My spam apparently like everybody elses has become progressively more voluminous and distracting and I believe that it is entirely plusnet's responsibility to sort it out without asking me to take a course in technical clap trap. How do I find out if I have been switched to this postini thing? Can I expect a noticable effect from it?

By: prims

prims — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:06:14 +0000

Just had another British Airways email marked as spam incorrectly...

By: prims

prims — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:18:28 +0000

@Tom

If bobpullen is correct in his assertion that plusnet has been moved then from personal experience even after the move to Postini the web interface still allows me to check the spam folder, or if you use imap instead of pop then you can also access the Spam folder directly.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:03:48 +0000

My spam has all but disappeared. However I worry that valid e-mails are now being caught. Is there any way that I can look at caught e-mails that are believed to be spam or to turn on or off the new filter?

By: prims

prims — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:14:15 +0000

@oldgustav, @bobpullen

For myself, also on a PlusNet account, I'm not noticing any significant change either, although I did have the first false positive I've ever seen on the server about a week ago; a refund confirmation from British Airways. I'm getting on average about 1 in 5 spam mails caught on my personal account... 4 getting through.

By: bobpullen

bobpullen — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:14:08 +0000

Hi oldgustav, you've already been moved to Postini. In a month or so we hope to be bringing you added functionality that will let you blacklist and whitelist your own addresses amongst other things.

Have you not noticed a reduction in spam?

By: oldgustav

oldgustav — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:20:42 +0000

I had an email from someone called Phil Webb on 9th Jan saying that PlusNet would be introducing Postini soon. I'm not award that this has happened yet. Do we have a date?

By: SeanM

SeanM — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:51:23 +0000

For years and I mean years I never recieved 1 single spam email. Why because I was careful with my email address, where I used it etc. Plusnet allow their forums to get hacked and ever since then bearing in mind I never published my email address on that either, I get my fair share of spam.

Most of it gets filtered by Thunderbird... but its all bandwidth I shouldn't be using.

By: jonathand

jonathand — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:50:54 +0000

@thebeehive

Hi, I'm assuming you're wanting to turn your catch all off?

Go to Manage My Mail:

http://www.plus.net/manage_my_mail/

Click on the right hand tab, called Catch All

Select the status of 'off' and click the 'submit' button and that's that job done.

If you want to remove individual aliases, click on the Aliases tab, then next to each of the aliases you have set up (except postmaster, which is a special case), there is a delete link. Just click it, confirm you want to delete the alias and you're done. Repeat as required for other aliases.

If you're wanting to achieve something else, please provide more details and we'll be able to offer more advice.

HTH.