Email filtering

[DaveP]

Hi,

A customer of mine is receiving viruses via email.

What I would like to do is, create a 2nd email address for him which I know filters/deletes spam & viruses from it.

forward mail from the original email address to the 2nd filtering email address.

I guess such a service is available at a cost from BT etc. I just wondered if
anybody knows of a free service to achieve the same.

Cheers

[scooterscot]

Why not get the host to filter the spam? I'm using UK2 on one of my accounts and generally the junk stays out. £2-3 a month for the service albeit.

[DaveB]

Hi,

A customer of mine is receiving viruses via email.

What I would like to do is, create a 2nd email address for him which I know filters/deletes spam & viruses from it.

forward mail from the original email address to the 2nd filtering email address.

I guess such a service is available at a cost from BT etc. I just wondered if
anybody knows of a free service to achieve the same.

Cheers

You could set up an automatic forward for all his mail to a Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail account, all of which provide reasonable spam filtering for free, then redirect all the non spam back to the original account.

Obviously you need the right filtering rules in place to avoid looping it all into oblivion but if you want a free solution that should work.

[DaveP]

Thanks DaveB

It's one option I will look into.