So I have someone who is receiving ~200 spam messages per day...used to be I would just set up a spam client on their computer and be done with it, but this person also checks their email on their blackberry, I'm assuming through POP3. So even if the email gets filtered off the outlook, I'm guessing by the time Outlook pulls it off the server it's already landed on his BB.

How can I deal with this? I'm 99.9% sure their email is provided by the people who host their site, so I'm going to check with them first, but outside of that what else can I do?

4/13/2010 4:43:22 PM

how and why is this your problem exactly

4/13/2010 4:45:36 PM

For one thing, you want them to get their POP3 email through BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) whereas right now it sounds like they just have a forwarding rule setup in Outlook?

If you want to stick with the Outlook forwarding, setup a spam filter in Outlook and setup a rule that goes through the spam filter before forwarding.

4/13/2010 4:51:09 PM

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"For one thing, you want them to get their POP3 email through BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) whereas right now it sounds like they just have a forwarding rule setup in Outlook?"

I'm thinking they do use the BIS...pretty sure they're aren't doing any sort of forwarding craziness. Is there some sort of spam filter that we can be set up for BIS?

4/13/2010 4:53:33 PM

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"how and why is this your problem exactly"

what a surprise post, normally you are very helpful.

If the email is provided by the site host do you have access to it? You can just setup the spam filtering on the server. Thats what I did for my rents since I host their email.



[Edited on April 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM. Reason : .]

4/13/2010 4:53:47 PM

^^I don't use BIS much, but as far as I know there is a built-in spam filter, but its fairly basic and cannot be customized.

4/13/2010 6:12:30 PM

unless they've updated BIS in the past month or so, there is no SPAM filtering. There is a pretty basic rules/filter set up that you can do. Unfortunately, it's a pain in the ass. When I had mine, I think I had 60+ rules to get rid of spam. Multiple keywords didn't work so you had to set up a basic one for each word that will help you block whatever it is.

4/13/2010 6:52:38 PM

Encourage them to migrate to Google.

4/13/2010 7:09:10 PM

a couple subject line terms to add to your block list:

v1agra

c1alis

9/22/2010 10:28:02 AM

you need access to their email host. It's MUCH simpler to filter it before it gets to the blackberry or BIS.

Most hosts come with at least some basic filtering, but it's usually turned off by default. For problems like this I usually set the spam filter to heavy-duty mode but just transfer the emails to a junk folder instead of dumping them. That way they can check it out on their pc (where thunderbird or outlook can process it all day long and weed through what might actually be real email) and only send the guaranteed real email to the blackberry.

In my experience a whitelist of big clients and you're good to go with this solution.

9/22/2010 10:38:23 AM

wow that's a pretty random bump

9/22/2010 3:20:21 PM

?

9/23/2010 1:34:03 AM

oh my bad - had to go farther up the list to see the time stamps are 5 months old

9/23/2010 2:42:00 AM

^ no i was talking about the post above yours.

9/23/2010 9:32:16 AM

yeah i was getting a bunch of spam from @yahoo.com and @gmail.com addresses, already had words like "viagra" on my block list, just giving a heads up that the spammers are trying other shit

9/23/2010 4:25:29 PM

I want to know why there aren't trained assault squads who bust in the door and smack people in their fucking teeth when they click on links in spam.

9/23/2010 10:11:49 PM