Spectrum email is flooding me with spam-How about you?

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I have Spectrum ISP. I access email on their website and do NOT use a 3rd party email program such as Thunderbird. My email contains around 56000 emails. Many, many , many are good emails that we save but many thousands are trash. We delete many hundreds every day. We block many but they just return from a different domain or email address. Many emails come in clusters where the same email is received 4 or 5 times withing a minute or two.
Does anyone else experience this kind of abuse? Has anyone found a solution to it? We have no other service providers in the area.
 


might want to check with Spectrum and see if they have any additional SPAM filters for their email, most ISP have them but you have to turn them on

 
We have no other service providers in the area.
I have a memory of you complaining of this problem some time ago.

To give some basis for comparison:

I use TPG as my service provider. They are 'located' approx 600 km away from me. They do not need to be 'in my area' for me to use them. The internet does the travelling for me...just as it is now (I am in Australia, and you are in the USA)

You have to start a clean up routine. 56000 emails is a serious problem....and the spam that is coming with that is out of conrol.

Make a plan and stick to it.

My approach would be this: Open a gmail account. Send the emails that you need to keep to your new gmail address...BUT ONLY the emails that you absolutely NEED to keep

So, you will end up with a spectrum email with a lot of garbage in it. You will also have a Gmail address that has NEEDED emails in it

Change ISP. Choose wisely. Put some thought into it. Your NEEDED emails will be quite safe with Gmail.
The rest of the emails can disappear....either you delete them or leave it to spectrum to clean up the mess when they disconnect your service with them.
 
You could use IMAP and spam filter with a client like Thunderbird.

You use IMAP so that things you don't delete remain on the server. POP3 either pulls everything from the server or pulls nothing from the server, those are your only choices.

Take control of your own inbox.
 
been using gmail for ~20 years (got in on the beta) and I thought I had an email hording issue (23.4gb in thunderbird, no clue how many actual emails that is lol)! 56k emails is quite a lot though!

gmail has pretty good spam filters, I hardly ever see spam - it does come in, but it all gets routed to a spam folder and I empty it periodically.
 

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