Some time ago I set a rule in Outlook to permanently delete any email coming from the @hotmail.com domain. Now I'm seriously considering doing the same with @yahoo.com. Just too much spam and too little (none?) serious communication from that domain.
Are any of you using yahoo for your email?
Not me. But I do use gmail.
In outlook you can mark an email as "Add sender to blocked sender list" and it should automatically move anything from that sender to you junk email folder without asking.
I might be a little leary about doing a major rule based on the domain.
A bunch of bad apples might make you miss the diamond in the rough.
I get bunches of emails from linkedin and facebook. Most are junk but on occasion I do get one from someone I do care about or had long since forgotten.
> Not me. But I do use gmail.
No spam, never from @gmail.com.
> In outlook you can mark an email as "Add sender to blocked sender list" and it should automatically move anything from that sender to you junk email folder without asking.
They never send from the same email account twice. But always the same domain.
> I might be a little leary about doing a major rule based on the domain.
> A bunch of bad apples might make you miss the diamond in the rough.
Once you've sorted through a few bushels of bad ones you send the truckload back.
deleting all emails from a certain domain is not advisable.
if all your clients have their own website then maybe that would be useful way to avoid spam.
but if you are also getting clients from private individuals then you may delete some
of their inquiries.
also i have had experience that even if your client have & use their own domain, some of their staffs use private email accounts when communicating with me. they do this maybe out of habit or have minimal knowledge of setting up the company account on their pc.
i have a system wherein all my emails sent to my company email account are 1st forwarded into my gmail account. from this gmail account i then forwarded to another company email account.
it is this 2nd company email account i access and read. most spams are no longersent by gmail to the 2nd company account.
downside is i also have to download the 1st email account or else it would become full & it may bounce all emails once inbox reached 10mb limit.
upside? you have a free email backup system in gmail.
I have my own domain, very inexpensive and IMO more professional. Namecheap.com is a good place to get setup, most domains come with a few free e-mail accounts, I have one set as a catch all where a lot of spam goes via filters I have set up, I can then quickly scan the spam folder to see if anything valid got by and then just empty the spam daily.
I don't filter any mail at the domain level, too much of a chance of getting rid of something I don't want to. What happens quite a bit is stuff will come to xxxxx@mydomain.com where xxxxx is NOT an e-mail I own, if I start getting a lot to any one bogus e-mail, I can then just set a filter to delete that one. In addition to all of that, a ton of stuff gets blocked at the domain server so I never even see it, BUT that is all stuff that is known to be spam, in addition I can set filters on the server rather than my e-mail client, so all in all a ton more flexibility running your own show.
SHG
My "other" account is a yahoo account and my teen daughter told me the other day that a yahoo email account is soooo UN-cool. Gmail is cool.
So I'm sticking with my yahoo account. Because it fits me.
