len garden wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>>I'm still waiting for him to answer that he has in fact blackholed the
>>"catch-all" address in the mail settings at his host's control panel.
>>That should cure his problem.
>
> i am not using thunderbird as my mail reader, when i installed it i
> thought it was a blocker program i didn't understand it was another
> mail reader program, i read all my mail using forte agent, now that it
> might be time to change programs is another question?

This isn't a question of a better spam-trapper on your computer.

len, you said in your original post in this thread, "what i want to do
is use it to cut the spam mail i get through my web host, not my isp who
already blocks spam."

You have to capture the spam AT YOUR WEB HOST! (sorry for shouting)

You have to log in to your web site's control panel (possibly "cPanel")
and disable the CATCH-ALL setting. When enabled, all mail sent to your
domain name will come to you, even though you may only use
"len@example.com" (I don't know what you use, so I substituted
"example.com")

Spammers routinely blast their crap to:
webmaster@example.com
sales@example.com
info@example.com
slgielsghelwlalf@example.com
george@example.com
and so on, and you get it all.

You will get it all if you don't ::blackhole:: the catch-all. If you
don't know how to manage your web site host's control panel, write a
support ticket at the host's main or support pages and ask them how to
do it.

If you publish your email address on your pages, the spammer's
harvesters will also find it and send you spam. Google for "email
obfuscation".

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