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Wow! The spam seige Applelinks and MacOpinion have been bombarded with over the past 18 hours or so at this writing is the worst I’ve ever experienced. Check out John Farr’s reports farther down the page for more on what’s been happening. Fortunately, only my email addresses for these two sites seem to be affected. I have several other accounts that I only release the addresses of to select family, friends, and business contacts and those accounts never get any Spam -- really. You can practise safe emailing if you don’t publish your email address on Websites, and keep a separate “clean” email account for private correspondence. Applelinks Webmaster Joe Ryan tells me that our spam filters weed out some 10,000 spam messages per day, but even at that, about two-thirds of the messages that make it through to my Applelinks inbox are spam -- more over the past day, including a blitz of messages of about 100k. I cleared the inbox before retiring last night, but this morning there were 91 messages there again -- six of which I wanted to read. A second check about an hour later found 87 messages, again six of which were wanted mail, and of which 25 were automatically blocked (see below) Thank goodness for POPMonitor, which nailed 11 of the spam messages on the check from my blocked messages list, and allowed me to delete the others before downloading. On my MacOpinion account I used Nisus Email, which likewise allows one to preview incoming messages and delete them without downloading. POPMonitor is a cool little shareware email utility, available in both OS X and Classic versions, that allows you to not only preview the contents of your email boxes before downloading, but also to instantly create blocking filters that can automatically delete subsequent messages from blocked addresses without even previewing them. You can also “bounce” previewed messages that you what return to sender. You can configure POPMonitor to automatically delete messages from blocked senders. or automatically delete messages that match any filter, and set POPmonitor to switch directly to your e-mail application after it has checked and filtered your mailbox. POPmonitor will first remove any unwanted messages from your mailbox and then tell your e-mail application to receive the remaining messages. You can display selected messages in separate windows. POPmonitor will not show the entire message but just downloaded part of it. You can specify the size of the downloaded part in the Account Settings window under Read X lines of the message body. POPmonitor is $25.00 shareware. The unregistered version lets you create one mail account, three trusted senders, three blocked senders and three custom filters. After registering you can create an unlimited number of each. For more information, visit: For my full review of POPMonitor, see: Nisus Email is arguably the most unique among more than a dozen POP 3 email clients available for the Mac OS and I find its ability to preview incoming mail and delete messages without downloading them a killer feature. Unlike POPMonitor, Nisus Email does not let you preview message content before downloading, but its advantage is that you can preview and download to your email inbox and archives with just one application. Nisus Email also allows you to selectively leave large messages on the server for later and just download the ones you want right now while deleting the junk, all in one operation. Nisus Email is available in both Classic and OS X Native (Carbon) versions and sells for $29.95. For more information, visit: For my full review of the older Nisus Email version 1.09, visit:
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