It's now just after 6pm. I got 390 spam e-mails since 11 am. Ok, the spam filter sends them to my junk mail folder but:

1) they take forever to download

2) somethimes real messages get treated as junk so I have to check all 390 headers just in case.

I wish here were some way of bouncing them back to Freeserve/ Wanadoo / Orange.

I guess I'll just have to change e-mail addresses but then I have the faff of telling everybody and remembering the sites that depend on the e-mail address as identification.

Unless anybody has a better suggestion ??

You could use gmail, it has a very good spamfilter. It also has the option to get the receive the emails from your other email accounts. And when you use gmail with for example outlook, it only downloads the emails which are not in the spam folder.

Yep, gmail is great. I didnt used t get any spam at all, get a bit now as the email is on my website and on here, but the spam filter is spot on when it comes to sorting it out.

http://www.gmail.com

Try bluebottle.com

absolutely brilliant.

Steve

Enable your spam filter on Orange's webmail. Your spam will download to your PC with ****SPAM**** in the heading. Setup a basic filter on outlook to move it to another file. Save you deleting it manually.

HTH

I use many variations on my email address on freeserve along the lines of

anything at joebloggs.freeserve.com

Whenever i sign up to a website i put something different before the @. Then if that address finds its way onto a spam list I can filter it using the webmail filters. I find I get the vast majority of spam to a few variations of my email address so this is very effective.

im with orange, have been since freeserve like you.

i get about 30-40 a day.

set up your spam filters with key words that get through.

as above I get 30-60 a day

You've missed the point. Yes, I can set up spam filters and spam goes into my junkmail. But I still have to check the junkmail because Orange wrongly identifies some real messages as junk. And it still takes ages to download.

And if I use G-mail, and it doesn't download the spam, doesn't the spam accumulate in my Orange account until I exceed my limit and then nobody can send me mail ?? Or does G-mail dump the spam in which case I lose the real messages which Orange wrongly identifies as spam ?

Confused? Moi? Oui actually

Thanks for trying to help.