I finally caved under the weight of email spam. Ipad doesn’t have a spam filter and my email provider’s was not very good. I was getting about 50 viagras and “hi! I am sexy girl from Ukraine” and penis enhancers and “I am in the possession of 3 million euros” every day. So I switched to gmail. It’s pretty easy to switch. Just press a button in your dreamhost panel to switch all your email accounts for a single domain then create the mailbox for each user at the other end. Neat.
Hey presto! No more email spam!
But, seemingly by coincidence, just as the email spam stopped, I started getting heaps and heaps of disgusting comment spam on my blog. It’s tiresome, having to wade the pages of filth and, even though it feels like I am very good at spotting and deleting the spam at a glance, I always worry that I might delete a genuine comment.
I don’t often get comments from strangers, but it’s always just a little heartwarming when I do and I’d hate to delete them by mistake.
UPDATE
I figured it out. Duh!
All my blog plugins mysteriously disappeared a couple of weeks ago. I added them all back except the spam filter.
Problem solved. It helps to talk about these things.
As always we are happy to rubber duck for you.
Jtf
Glad you figured out the blog comment spam problem. I’ve had a few updates to WP that turned off my spam filter plugin for one reason or another, which quickly reminds me how much work it is doing.
I converted to Google Apps for email/calendar etc.. a couple of years ago and love it. Haven’t had a spam problem since and get all of the Gmail goodness for archive and search. +1 for Dreamhost. Those guys rock.