LoR*Evanescence Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I have a custom domain name for my email address. And I have kept it spam free for 4+ years by not using it for joining any mailing lists or posting it online. A couple months ago when I was applying for jobs, one website that came up a job posting for a corporate office IT position that looked good in the a area, so I filled out a profile, and attached my resume. And of course I had to provide my email address and phone number. Before submitting the application, the site asks if I was interested in furthering my education and asked if they could share my information with their partners about going back to school. I said maybe later on the the furthering my education, and no to sharing my information. The next day I was getting 3 or 4 phone calls a day from different area codes around the country from people wanting to talk to me about going back to school. I also started getting 30 spam emails a day on my email address. I turned on the spam filter, so that it would put most of the spam into a spam inbox, but it turns out, everything that I actually wanted to get for email went into the spam box as well most of the time, and I was still getting the spam in my inbox. After awhile I got fed up with this, and made the mistake of clicking the safe unsubscribe button on the bottom of the spam emails. It gave me pages like we are sorry to see you go,and said I have been successfully unsubscribed, but it would take me 14 days to be removed from the mailing list. It never removed me from the mailing lists, all it did was add me to more. Not I get over 100 spam emails a day. So many that I can't keep up deleting them anymore. I just don't have the time to sort through what is spam and what is not. And because of that, I am missing a lot of important emails Is there anything that can be done short of getting a new email address. I really do not want to lose this custom one I have. Is there anyway to block emails and bounce them back for anyone not on a approved list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted April 4, 2014 Veteran Share Posted April 4, 2014 Point your mx record to a free anti spam service like barracuda (free up to 10 users) and then set that up to forward mail to you mail service. It will help filter your mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoR*Evanescence Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 Ok, I tried setting up the Bartracuda Spam Service and it did not work. I figured I did something wrong or It just wasn't work. I tried to set up MX Guarddog and they stopped me half way through configuration with the following message: As of September 10, 2009 1&1.com does not support email protection by third parties. For whatever reason, they force customers to use their email protection solutions only. We are aware of many people who have complained to them, however they refuse to allow it. At this time if your email is hosted with 1&1.com, you will not be able to use MX Guarddog to protect your email system. Their email protection / spam filter ply sorts email between the inbox and spam inbox, but does not block anything, and puts most of my valid email into the spam box. Anyone have any good suggestions a better host? Also, would I be better off at looking into getting my email for my domains hosted by go daddy and keeping 1and1? Or just finding a new host all together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotoxic Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Thought about contacting some privacy groups?? No way should they be allowed to get away with using your data if you declined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted April 7, 2014 MVC Share Posted April 7, 2014 To me that would be good excuse to move off them for your email hosting.. Its not like there is no 100's if not 1000's of hosts to choose from in hosting email. redvamp128 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaphat (Myles Landwehr) Member Posted April 8, 2014 Member Share Posted April 8, 2014 I'd probably just setup forwarding to another email account that does a good job of handling spam. For example, you could use it with any web mail service that supports authenticating through 3rd party SMTP servers (for seamless sending through your custom domain account). That's basically what I do with my GMail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted April 8, 2014 Veteran Share Posted April 8, 2014 I would change your mail host, maybe outlook.com or google or sign up for a mail service for a few quid a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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