my school email account gets filled with junk mail. I get about 15 on average a day. This is rediculous. I dont sign up to sites of any nature and I don't give it out to people other then for school and some more formal purposes. Is there anyway to reduce the number or stop it completely. Any help would be appreciated. thanks

6/23/2006 9:37:41 AM

dont use your NCSU address, get GMail

NCSU's website has always made it very easy for programs that crawl the web to grab up email addresses, thats how your email addy shows up on spammer's lists

NCSU's email filtering is shitty, if you use a secondary account, or use something like Thunderbird to check your unity mail that can use a decent spam filter then you'll be better off

[Edited on June 23, 2006 at 9:52 AM. Reason : in the time it took me to type this msg, I looked up your email address on the website]

6/23/2006 9:52:23 AM

All you need is a client like thunderbird. Set it to trust spamassassin headers (ncsu uses spamassassin, doesn't get much better) and 99% of your junk magically disappears.

[Edited on June 23, 2006 at 10:00 AM. Reason : yes webmail sucks]

6/23/2006 9:57:46 AM

both of the answers so far are wrong, although the first is atleast partially right

here is what you do

1. http://help.ncsu.edu/solutions/all/22.php
2. send an email to accounts@ncsu.edu telling them to forward your unity mail to your gmail account
3. ...
4. profit

6/23/2006 10:08:12 AM

you can do that without sending anyone an email. ncsu does use spam assassin, but webmail isn't really able to take advantage of them, so you have to use a client that interprets the header, like thunderbird. I mean if you like only being able to check your mail in a browser, that's cool I guess, but resorting to gmail isn't the "answer."

6/23/2006 10:48:13 AM

^So how about explaining how to tell Thunderbird to use SpamAssassin

6/23/2006 11:12:15 AM

tools -> junk mail controls -> trust junkmail headers set by [spam assassin]

6/23/2006 11:40:00 AM