How can I stop spam emails?

Mike and his wife are getting too much spam in their BT Internet mailboxes. What can they do to stop it?

My wife and I have never received more than three or four spam emails each week for over two decades. Recently we started getting large volumes of spam. We are with BT but tend to use eM Client for our emails using the IMAP system. eM Client can dump these into Junk and blacklist the domain, but this does not stop the spam emails, which are now five a day at least. Neither BT nor eM Client nor Sophos (our anti-virus company) have any ideas about how to stop this happening, other than to get a new email address. Do we just have to live with it? Mike

The short answer is that you just have to live with it. However, different email services have different levels of spam blocking, so you would probably see less spam if you got a new email address. First, your new address would not be on any of the mailing lists used by spammers - at least for a while. Second, you could use a service that blocks more spam, such as Google's Gmail or Microsoft's Outlook.com (aka Hotmail/Live mail).