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How do you handle junk email? (lemmy.sdf.org)
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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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[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

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.com goes 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 get facebook@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.