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I am running Vista Home Basic  32 bit.  I USE Yahoo mail.  Lately I have been getting a lot of spam.  What is the best way to reduce the amount of spam.  If I change mail service which one should I change to?    Thanks     BobI've never used yahoo mail so I don't know what options are available. But if you switch to a pop account you can set junk mail parameters within the email CLIENT plus your ISP probably has a spam filter available on their end.Yahoomail has a Spam folder for any suspected spam messages. Make sure spamguard is ON. Or go to your Yahoomail SETTINGS and on Empty spam folder option(once a week, every two weeks, once a month and immediately) and save changes. Also delete unsolicited messages found on your inbox and CLICK or empty trash folder and or spam folder.Hi -
Thanks for your replies.
I have my spamguard "on".  As you know there is room for 500 blocked addresses and I have 100 still unused.  Perhaps I am getting more spams because of Christmas.  I have set spam folder to HOLD the spams for one week and I will find out how many I am getting.  Maybe it is not as bad as I think.   
Allen - what mail service do you use?
Thanks       BobI use pop accounts provided by my two ISP's. My email client has always been MS Outlook.Allan -
Thanks I may try something like that if I can't get improvement with what I use.   BobSome of the ISPs do a good job of filtering out spam generated by spambots and mass-mail spammers.  I've been using the same POP email account provided by my ISP for several years and I have no spam problem.  Clearly, they are filtering out spam.  Quote from: soybean on December 24, 2010, 08:33:05 AM

Some of the ISPs do a good job of filtering out spam generated by spambots and mass-mail spammers.  I've been using the same POP email account provided by my ISP for several years and I have no spam problem.  Clearly, they are filtering out spam.