How do you deal with spam emails?

I do get some useful information through the spam emails and I think every coin has two sides. If you are upset about these emails, you can choose to use G-mail which receives few spam emails.

I use Outlook for most of my mail. There is an excellent free program which works with it called SpamBayes. Outlook also has its own filter which I find fairly efficient. Using the two together filters out 90% of the spam I receive - I merely need to go to the Spam folder periodically, check that nothing has been marked as spam that shouldn't have been and delete everything else. Spammers are continually thinking of new ways to get round the filters. The latest one seems to be emails which appear to be from your ISP or mail provider apparently saying that mail was undeliverable or that one's mailbox is full. It's not worth the hassle of getting worked up about it, frankly. Spam is a fact of life, like it or not, and there are several sensible precautions one can take to avoid being over-run by it. I have tried Mailwasher and found it fairly useful, especially before my ISP installed proper spam filters themselves. My problem with it was that it is a separate program which one has to run before one opens one's mailbox. I didn't care to have to do that every time.

Hello Pablothehat, Yes, theres a lot of spammer lurking the internet and everyday I too do received them. I have email accounts on Hotmail, yahoo and gmail. I usually received a lot of spam mail in my yahoo email, they do have spam filter which sends this mail to a spam folder but still some of them gets through. So I don't often use my yahoo email except for chat and instant messaging. I frequently use gmail and it has good spam filter for I rarely received spam emails on my email account there. :-)

I'm using Gmail, which has a pretty good spam filter. Before I started using Gmail, I was reporting all the spam I received through www.spamcop.com You can register with them for free and forward all your spam messages there. The messages then get reported, but I'm not sure if it helped.