My email is getting massively spammed :(

[swissdude]

Didn't know where to post this, hope someone can help me asap

I have a new host service for my site and emails. It's with my friend's account.

My email address is getting like a Spam Email a second in last days ...

He told me, add my email address into GMAIL and then set up the filter's there.

So what I did is just that, I added my email address in GMAIL "SEND MAIL AS" bit and it appears. Set up filters.

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But still the spam is coming into my Outlook for my email address. What do I have to do? Set up Outlook with new email account info from Gmail rather than direct from the info of my friend's server?

[still1]

Are you getting spams in your spam folder or Inbox in outlook?

If its in spam folder its normal and that how it works. There is an option to not show spam folder in outlook in gmail settings,

if that helps.

More detail on what kind of spam you get can help a bit on filtering the spams.

[still1]

Other suggestion would be delete the email and create a new email if your hosted service.

[swissdude]

I can't delete it as I had this email for many years so everyone know's it

No it is all coming into my inbox :(

[swissdude]

Someone please help me

[Detection]

Set up the email account so it only allows people in your address book into the inbox, and the rest into spam folder

Or use a service like http://www.mailroute.net/

^^^ Leo Laportes advise

[Shaun N.]

I had Hotmail for years, created a forwarder to gmail and after about 6months of me moving everything over and getting used to using it I closed my hotmail as it was just full of spam constantly.

[Luis Mazza]

Set your current e-mail to forward all messages to your gmail account and read it from there.

Tell everyone about your new e-mail address and use it to reply.

This way you're going to use Gmail's filters, which are great.

After some time I hope you make the definitive switch :)

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Set up the email account so it only allows people in your address book into the inbox, and the rest into spam folder

I did that on my hotmail account when it was my main address. There was so much spam, it was crazy.

[articuno1au]

I've been using Hotmail since November 2001, and I have never had significant issues with spam.

I get about 15-20 spam emails a day (remember the account is 11 years old), but each of these emails gets caught by the servers spam filters and directed to my spam folder :\

I don't know how people run into serious spam on Hotmail O.o

[swissdude]

Set your current e-mail to forward all messages to your gmail account and read it from there.

Tell everyone about your new e-mail address and use it to reply.

This way you're going to use Gmail's filters, which are great.

After some time I hope you make the definitive switch :)

Hi Luis, I don't get what I'm supposed to do exactly

My main email I've used and like is - [email protected]

I've added that to my Gmail account and made it also the "default" reply from address

There are many options in the Gmail Mail Settings panel and I'm not sure exactly what else I need to do now, and then what I have to change in my mail clients like Outlook to start making them all work nicely again

Thanks in advance

[butilikethecookie]

Create a new email and trasnsfer all of your accounts to a new one. Do Steam, Origin, iTunes, Banks, and anything else you have money invested in. Just email everyone your new address. DO NOT close it up completely just in case you need it later! You can use one as your spam account, one as your good account. That's what I do.

[+Byt Subscriber¹]

I don't know how people run into serious spam on Hotmail O.o

By signing upto dodgy sites! :p

Golden rule is to have an email address dedicated for just signing upto various websites you use, and have a different account for personal stuff.

[swissdude]

People, I want to keep my MAIN email address. I don't want to sign up for a NEW one.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

People, I want to keep my MAIN email address. I don't want to sign up for a NEW one.

You set up your main account to forward all messages to a gmail account, then you start using the gmail account. I'm not sure if Gmail has the option, but you may then be able to set Gmail up so that you can reply with your old email address.

If you have an email client, such as Outlook, you then tell Outlook to download the emails from the Gmail account, not the main account. The reason for this is that you can set Gmail to filter out the spam and only give you the emails that you want to read.

[still1]

Hi Luis, I don't get what I'm supposed to do exactly

My main email I've used and like is - [email protected]

I've added that to my Gmail account and made it also the "default" reply from address

There are many options in the Gmail Mail Settings panel and I'm not sure exactly what else I need to do now, and then what I have to change in my mail clients like Outlook to start making them all work nicely again

Thanks in advance

read this carefully. It should give you some idea about how to do it. Its an old article but still should be good.

http://www.iopus.com/guides/gmail-spam-filter.htm

[Roger H. Veteran]

Hmm, you mentioned it's hosted, they don't have spam filtering service? They've gotta have something. Do you have any control over the systems?

Is all this spam designated for you or maybe it was just for your new IP address and your mail server is accepting them anyways.

forward some of them as an attachment to [email protected] :D Testing my exchange server and I can at least forward them to cloudmark and other sites which helps block them anyways.

The Gmail option wont really work if they are sending it directly to your email, You'd need to have them be sending emails to your "fake" email address then have Google forward non-spam to your "real" address.

[Luis Mazza]

Hi Luis, I don't get what I'm supposed to do exactly

My main email I've used and like is - [email protected]

I've added that to my Gmail account and made it also the "default" reply from address

There are many options in the Gmail Mail Settings panel and I'm not sure exactly what else I need to do now, and then what I have to change in my mail clients like Outlook to start making them all work nicely again

Thanks in advance

You have to forward your e-mail account from the webmail account. You don't have to setup anything on gmail. Use the webmail client from the account you want to forward. Maybe there's some sort of control panel from your provider where you can so that. Contact them if you don't find it.