Spam Stop | Spam filtering and advice pages
- Filter spam email using DNS Black Lists
Black lists can be used to filter spam and reduce the amount of junk email you receive.
- ‘Disposable’ e-mail accounts
If you ever need to give your email address to a site that you do not trust, always use an alternate (secondary) email account rather than your main email account. That way, if your details are passed onto a mailing list, your main account remains safe.
- Protecting mail servers
Mail servers that are not correctly configured and secured may be used by spammers to relay junk/spam mail.
- The Sender Policy Framework
If you host your own mail server, you should be able to configure your server use SPF as a spam filter to reject email address based on the sender domain SPF record.
- Reporting spam email
How and where to take action against the spam email you receive.