I’ve been using Thunderbird to sort out my junk email for a while, ever since I walked away from my Gmail account. Thunderbird does a great job, but it does mean it has to stay running somewhere.
However I’m currently in the process of moving and as a result I’ve had to shut down the system that that I had been running Thunderbird on. The result of which, obviously, is that my inbox is now being flooded with spam.
Since it’s been a while since I last looked at the problem, I figured I ask. How do you deal with spam email?
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I run my personal email off of my domain registrar, Namcheap. Its management is shared so they partially maintain it, but give me a bunch of tools I can use.
One tool in particular I really like is BoxTrapper. If the email isn’t white listed, it “traps” it and sends a reply that asks the sender to click a link to verify they’re not a bot. If they click it, email goes through. This has cut my spam by 95%, but it does mean I do miss the odd important email.
Another thing I do is I’ve setup a subdomain + a global forwarder. So everything from
@email.my_domain.comgoes to my email. BoxTrapper is set to allow those emails to go through, and any time I sign up for anything, it gets its own email address to send to. So if I go and sign up for Facebook, they getfacebook@email.my_domain.com. If they start sending me spam, I add that domain to the BoxTrapper blacklist.This system does require your own domain and registrar with these tools. However, managing your own email server is a gigantic pain in the ass. And this is even with partial management. Full management would be even worse. So if you’re not doing it already, I really don’t recommend it.
I use Proton, and I can’t remember ever having gotten any junk email in the years I’ve been using them.
For me,
Unsubscribe from every unwanted email until they stop coming
Use email aliases for any new signups
I use a email aliasing service that generates a unique email for each site that requires an email. If the people who have that email address don’t respect my wishes of not wanting marketing bullshit I simply disable the email alias. I unfortunately can’t make a recommendation as I use Proton’s SimpleLogin with a lifetime pass, and I don’t approve of that company anymore. Anyone else feel free to chime in though!
RSpamD
Thunderbird/K9Mail on android really just needs spam filtering like the desktop version.
I don’t give my email address to absolutely anyone. Everyone gets an alias. Everyone. My Mom gets one. Anyone who abuses their alias, gets it deleted. I don’t get spam but maybe once a month.
