katmandu wrote:Hi Charles,
Do you have a Gmail account, or would you be willing to get one?
Google's spam filtering, though not perfect, is close to brilliant on its own, and you can set up your own filters as well.
You can read email from your personal account into Gmail, and send from Gmail back out through your personal email account. No one will know you're using a Gmail account unless they look at the email headers ( very few will ).
Email read in from your personal account will run through Google's spam filters, unless you specifically exclude that account with a filter.
You can connect to Gmail with Outlook too, either POP or IMAP.
Jeff
That's what I did years ago. I usedd a verizon.net e-mail account and address for years and the spam filters at the provider side were insufficient. I signed up for a gmail account and started using it as my main private e-mail address. Within my google account I set up a retrieval feature for my old e-mail account at the Verizon POP3 server to doenload my e-mail from there to my google inbox. I stopped sending via the Verizon account and it cleared the number of spam e-mail while I still could receive all inbound messages from my old account. Three years later I have hardly ever received e-mail over the Verizon servers and turned the retrieval feature off. All my contacts know my new e-mail address by now and the issue is cleared. The provider side spam filter on the Google account works and does not cost a penny.I also quit using e-mail clients because of the security flaws within are a risk and require regular software updates and service packs.
The Google web interface has all features I need and Google voice integrates nicely as well.