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From: Samuel K. Spitzner (no email)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 11:13:51 EST
I would like to add a small comment here. If you use the bounce option,
you can really mess up a lot of stuff. In addition, you will be
subscribing to every opt-in list that there is. The ideal thing to do is
to simply delete the email.
My email server (which I run) will automatically drop all messages that
come from an illegal domain, or one which cannot be looked up. In
addition, I run spamassassin that will block out additional emails.
However, you cannot filter them all.
If you use an IMAP protocol for email, you will not need to worry about
downloading email. It simply provides you with a list of headers of
email, and you pick and choose which ones to download. Most ISP's will
allow you to use IMAP.
If you want further info, please feel free to contact me.
Sam
Aerofoam wrote:
>
>Have your domain host turn OFF the wildcard function of the POP 3 server, so
>only actual addresses
>will work. I actually changed domain host because my formar host didn't have
>the ability to turn
>off the "webmaster@ my domain" address.
>
>
>
>>Anyway, I have signed up for a 30-day trial of SpamArrest
>>
>>
>www.spamarrest.com
>
>
>>to see if I can get it under control. At $20 for six months, I'm hoping
>>
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>it
>
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>>will put some joy back into sitting down at the computer again
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>
>There is a free download program called "Mailwasher" ( www.mailwasher.net )
>that lets you preview the email on your server without downloading it, it
>then allows you to block, delete and bounce emails from spammers and
>automatically builds the "blacklist" as you rule out emails.
>You can also block the entire domain and have the program automatically
>filter emails against
>huge known spammer lists.
>The ability to bounce the emails will make the spammers think it is a dead
>address, however if you are
>already getting a lot of spam, you should probably start with a new address.
>
>M.Mech
>
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