Noah:
For newsgroup use, I've switched to using a throwaway hotmail address. But,
the damage is already done to the Frontier address. I'm getting over 4mb of
junk mail each day. Someone in one of the Microsoft newsgroups suggested
that I take a look at a program called K9, at this site:
http://keir.net/

It's not a turnkey solution, but something which requires thinking on the
part of the user. What it does is identify what it believes is spam. For the
first day or two, it'll make a few errors, but that doesn't matter, since it
doesn't delete the spam. It marks the message's subject line with a phrase
which you can select. It then passes the message through to your normal
email program. This makes it a breeze to create a mail rule based on that
word. The default is [spam], but it could be [aunt beatrice] or anything
else. Besides making rules easier to create, it obviously makes sorting a
breeze. And, if it mistakenly marks something as spam, it's easy to "teach"
the program.

I have 4 email accounts, but only my Frontier account is being crippled by
the number of virus-laden emails it's getting. I receive little or no real
mail there anyway, so I've told OE to stop checking it. Then, I use another
feature of K9 called "server check". It goes to your email server and
downloads just the subject headers. It marks them according to whatever
word(s) you've chosen. If they're obviously bad mail, you can select just
those and delete them from the server, leaving only the good ones. Then,
your email client can be manually told to grab messages from that account.

The program's got a few rough edges, but all in all, it works nicely. It's
free, and there are a few MVPs in the newsgroups below who understand it
enough to be helpful.

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Doug