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Rainmaker
1,466,207
Michael Setunsky
Woodbridge, VA
Your Commercial Real Estate Link to Northern VA

Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, Broker, Tacoma Washington Not perfect, but it lets you check your email on your ISP server before it gets to your computer. You can friend, delete, bounce and black list your emails. The software is called MailWasher Pro. I believe it is free for one email address and there is a cost to monitor more than one.

Feb 09, 2016 06:02 AM
Rainmaker
1,712,676
Joe Pryor
The Virtual Real Estate Team - Oklahoma City, OK
REALTOR® - Oklahoma Investment Properties

The best for my use is Unroll.me. It is only for Gmail and Yahoo mail. I use Gmail for business and it allows you to unsybscribe, keep in inbox, or add to a magazine like format that comes in once a day. No cost.

Feb 09, 2016 07:01 AM
Rainmaker
2,538,633
Joe Petrowsky
Mortgage Consultant, Right Trac Financial Group, Inc. NMLS # 2709 - Manchester, CT
Your Mortgage Consultant for Life

Good morning Paul. I clean my inbox daily, otherwise it gets out of hand.

Feb 09, 2016 05:26 PM
Ambassador
6,393,609
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Out of all my email accounts, I am very impressed at gmails ability to filter out the spam.

Feb 09, 2016 01:35 PM
Rainmaker
1,661,936
John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque Homes Realty - Albuquerque, NM
Honesty, Integrity, Results, Experienced. HIRE Me!

Gmail really catches spam well. 

Feb 09, 2016 08:30 PM
Rainmaker
5,216,409
Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Chicago, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

No,  but if you do please let me know!

Feb 09, 2016 07:56 PM
Rainmaker
1,157,785
FN LN
Toronto, ON

There is no perfect filter.  There are always new ways to defeat the filters.

Feb 09, 2016 05:21 PM
Rainmaker
2,759,812
TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.
Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN
Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

 No. If you find one let us all know.

Feb 09, 2016 05:19 PM
Rainmaker
2,362,977
Lise Howe
Keller Williams Capital Properties - Washington, DC
Assoc. Broker in DC, MD, VA and attorney in DC

no,sadly

Feb 09, 2016 12:51 PM
Rainmaker
713,382
Sharon Kowitz
CRS-SRES-ABR-GRI-E-Pro-CREN ~ COMPASS RE - Cary, NC
Cary, NC Relocation Specialist ~ Buying or Selling

No, but I would love to know if you find one!

Feb 09, 2016 12:38 PM
Rainmaker
2,443,250
Evelyn Johnston
Friends & Neighbors Real Estate - Elkhart, IN
The People You Know, Like and Trust!

No, and as a matter of fact, I have spent a great amount of time cleaning out all these leads from activerain yesterday and the day before.

Feb 09, 2016 11:22 AM
Rainmaker
5,005,659
Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX
NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

No..I'll be waiting to read an answer from the comments!

Feb 09, 2016 11:18 AM
Rainmaker
1,771,867
Noah Seidenberg
Coldwell Banker - Evanston, IL
Chicagoland and Suburbs (800) 858-7917

No Paul that is not an easy one.

Feb 09, 2016 10:12 AM
Ambassador
3,727,873
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@Properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Paul, I feel your pain!  I had a gazillion of the stupid things in my box yesterday.  And somehow ActiveRain cleared them out of my inbox here.  And my Apple email was pretty easy to clean up.  But it was a little scary when you think about how much spam got through. 

Feb 09, 2016 10:02 AM
Ambassador
5,049,466
Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

 Not yet, but will see what others have to say. I go through spam every day and delete, while keeping any messages I need that may have strayed into that folder

 

Feb 09, 2016 09:49 AM
Rainmaker
4,936,705
Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!"

I will be reading all the answer to figure it out

 

Feb 09, 2016 08:09 AM
Rainmaker
3,988,007
Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

No I have to routinely check my spam and junk files to see if something important got filtered out. It doesn't take but a moment to do.

Feb 09, 2016 08:07 AM
Rainmaker
530,966
Gary Coles (International Referrals)
Venture Realty International - Las Vegas, NV
Latin America Real Estate

The only one I know is to "disconnect".

Feb 09, 2016 07:09 AM
Rainmaker
1,683,912
Larry Johnston
Broker, Friends & Neighbors Real Estate and Elkhart County Subdivisions, LLC - Elkhart, IN
Broker,Friends & Neighbors Real Estate, Elkhart,IN

I'm not sure if there is a perfect spam filter.

Feb 09, 2016 07:01 AM
Rainmaker
1,231,853
Mary Yonkers
Alan Kells School of Real Estate/Howard Hanna Real Estate - Erie, PA
Erie/PA Real Estate Instructor

I wish, I wish, I wish so I just ignore junk aka spam. 

Feb 09, 2016 07:01 AM
Rainer
216,904
Sharon Altier
Coldwell Banker Realty - Elmhurst, IL
Luxury Property Specialist, CSC, SFR

I make sure that I block the sends and domains of the spam sent to me.  That helps avoid repeat offenders. 

Feb 09, 2016 05:26 AM
Rainmaker
5,772,575
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Paul,

I wish I could say that.  Let me know if you do find something.  A

Feb 09, 2016 04:42 AM
Rainmaker
5,868,554
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

I have two emails - one for business, one for social media, builders, lenders, title.... still get a lot of spam, but doesn't take long to delete.

Feb 10, 2016 06:45 AM
Rainmaker
3,986,258
William Feela
WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN
Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

No perfect filter.  I check my spam 3-4 times a day when there is only s few there.  If I am waiting for a contract to come in I will then check more often

Feb 09, 2016 11:57 PM
Rainmaker
7,836,419
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Gmail does a pretty good job. I clean out my email every day.

Feb 09, 2016 11:51 PM
Rainmaker
4,572,283
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Nothing's perfect.

Not even me.

Surprising -- I know.  But true.  

Feb 09, 2016 09:40 PM
Rainmaker
4,434,127
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

Thank you for the question.

Feb 09, 2016 09:01 PM
Rainmaker
5,104,931
Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

I wish, Paul. I've sent emails to myself that land in spam! I get emails marked spam into my in-box and emails from clients who've been emailing me since the year dot suddenly going into spam! I've given up trying to figure this out. Just very careful about deleting spam folder items till I've check them.

Feb 09, 2016 08:56 PM
Rainmaker
140,768
Joan Dickie
Keller Williams Premier Realty - La Crosse, WI
Keller Williams Premier Realty

Gmail works well for me.  I get very little spam in my inbox.

Feb 09, 2016 09:30 AM
Rainmaker
1,239,901
Sam Shueh
(408) 425-1601 - San Jose, CA
mba, cdpe, reopro, pe

Change your critical eMail.... Critical vs discretionary eMail.

Feb 09, 2016 04:49 AM
Rainer
94,105
Val Evans
Scottsdale, AZ

No SPAM here. Our filters are set up to weed out the most common SPAM keywords. It's very easy to do with Apple mail. It's very rare that a legitimate email ends up in the trash.

Feb 09, 2016 04:43 AM