Solved Good anti-spam for self-hosted email on outlook 2013

  • Hi there and welcome to PC Help Forum (PCHF), a more effective way to get the Tech Support you need!
    We have Experts in all areas of Tech, including Malware Removal, Crash Fixing and BSOD's , Microsoft Windows, Computer DIY and PC Hardware, Networking, Gaming, Tablets and iPads, General and Specific Software Support and so much more.

    Why not Click Here To Sign Up and start enjoying great FREE Tech Support.

    This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Learn More.
  • Hello everyone We want to personally apologize to everyone for the downtime that we've experienced. We are working to get everything back up as quickly as possible. Due to the issues we've had, your password will need to be reset. Please click the button that says "Forgot Your Password" and change it. We are working to have things back to normal. Emails are fixed and should now send properly. Thank you all for your patience. Thanks, PCHF Management
Status
Not open for further replies.
X

x86kindaguy

PCHF Member
Sep 5, 2019
12
0
40
Hi

I get anywhere from 30 to 50 spam emails a day sent to my inbox on my self-hosted business email.

Unfortunately using gmail isn't an option as I have 4 emails (support, accounts, sales, enquiries). I'd love to use gmail to receive emails though.

I am on a trial copy of spamfighter which seems to work OK. The only problem is it requires a license on each machine. So even though my time is divided between my desktop and laptop. I have to buy 2 licenses, at £45 (year license) per machine. Seems a little bit OTT.

Any other solutions you can recommend? I'm using outlook 2013. Do the newer versions of outlook have better spam filtering?
 
Try mailwasher, not free but reasonable. There is a free version but its limited to one email account and has ads. Good enough to try it out.
 
  • Like
Reactions: x86kindaguy
Thanks, mailwasher is a bit better than spamfighter as they have a lifetime license and allow you to install on up to 3 machines. I've installed it and will give it a try. The trouble with these client side anti spam is the false positives are quite high.
 
The only criticsm I can find with mailwasher is that it is quite unintuitive to use. You have to first open mailwasher to empty your spam and then open outlook to review and reply to your email. Nobody else does anti spam this way, it's all done in the background. With mailwasher you are putting spam mail at the forefront, dealing with it before your actual emails. I'll give it a try for a month and see how it goes.
 
I have used Mailwasher for years and once you have "trained" it to your needs it requires nearly no setting in daily use. The beauty of mailwasher for me is it shows your mail which once trained is marked as good, or blacklisted, and or bounced. By doing this it allows me to scroll through the messages on the server and either accept (and download) my trained settings, or add other mail to my blacklist. By doing this I neither delete mail which I shouldn't, nor allow through crap. I now get no false positives, but yes it does take a little time to learn your preferences.

x86kindaguy said:
I'll give it a try for a month and see how it goes.
Click to expand...
Nobody can ask you to do more than that, sure Mailwasher does take a bit of initial setup, but as you say you should have a pretty good idea in a month. I have no alliance with Mailwasher but the learning curve associated with it has been good for me.

Hope it goes well for you?
 
Thanks for the tip with mailwasher.

It's working well and the spam has reduced massively.

I did notice that a LOT of spam was coming from my own comment form (contact form 7) via the wordpress website. I managed to take action by installing akismet and honeypot. I couldn't allow mailwasher to deal with that otherwise it would delete legitimate contact form enquries but honeypot and akismet together work a treat.

Its nice and peaceful without the spam. I can deal with the enquiries and not have to press delete on all the spam.
 
gus said:
I have used Mailwasher for years and once you have "trained" it to your needs it requires nearly no setting in daily use. The beauty of mailwasher for me is it shows your mail which once trained is marked as good, or blacklisted, and or bounced. By doing this it allows me to scroll through the messages on the server and either accept (and download) my trained settings, or add other mail to my blacklist. By doing this I neither delete mail which I shouldn't, nor allow through crap. I now get no false positives, but yes it does take a little time to learn your preferences.


Nobody can ask you to do more than that, sure Mailwasher does take a bit of initial setup, but as you say you should have a pretty good idea in a month. I have no alliance with Mailwasher but the learning curve associated with it has been good for me.

Hope it goes well for you?
Click to expand...
Did you go for the lifetime license? What was the best discount coupon you could get for it and what price?

I purchased "lifetime licenses" in the past and the software was no good after a couple of years. I bought wordpress themes and plugins which were "lifetime" and the developer stopped updating it and soon became incompatible with the latest wordpress.
 
Yes It is a lifetime license but it was many years ago I got it, and I have no recollection of how much. Sorry.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom