Spam + Viruses

During the latest virus epidemic we receive up to 300 unwanted emails per day. There are strategies to avoid the time it would normally take for a virus checker to download and quarantine the emails.

Since some emails are 68Kb size, downloading the lot would be like downloading over 20Mbs of scanned photos and take ages.

Here are some strategies

• Junk mail box
  1. Set-up a junkmail email box with your host - say [email protected]
  2. Set-up a redirection of all emails not specifically to your address (i.e. [email protected]) to go to that junk mail box
  3. Log into www.mail2web.com
  4. Enter the real email address for your junk mail box - not the domain one, (if you are with host1 then it may be [email protected]) and password.
  5. Your emails will be listed.
  6. Choose "List All" or see them page by page.
• Set-up a filter in your email program
  This will separate junk from real mail - but check the junk - real mail can slip into junk
• Get Broadband
  This allows you to download all mail very quickly

Right click on the page and make it a shortcut on your desktop.

Then we go to our normal email program and download the ones left.

See latest Australian legislation on Spam