CranialBlaze
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely investigate that route if need be. Fortunately I found a service called SpamDrain that filters spam right on the mail server. So the spam never sees any mail client. It's not free, but I'm happy to pay little more than a dollar a month for it. I'm currently using the trial and it seems to be working perfectly. No more spam on my phone, and the list of blocked emails in the SpamDrain interface is already massive.
I just wish I knew which website gave my email address to spammers.
Nice find, hope that works out well for you. Finding the site that gave out your email is always a pain, that's one of my favourite gmail features.
GMail has a feature, at least with its own addresses, never tried with my other linked ones, anyway. Basically you have an effective infinite number of email address aliases at your disposal, if like many your mail address is something like nam,surname, name-surname or name_suraname, possibly other. namesurname is a default alias, so the sender can forget your separator punctuation, also there is a '+' suffix, so [email protected] will also make its way to you.
I personally use that whenever I need to give addresses to a slightly suspect site or any insurance company, hippo.co.za and all those places, so mine would be [email protected], so if ever I begin getting spam, I know exactly who to start swearing at just by the mail address used.