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From: Jim (no email)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 12:12:03 EST
Well I made a misteak and sent the following to Rich instead of the
list, and got his verification thingy.
Anyhow
I recently upgraded to Netscape7. There is an option to create a filter
from an email address, sender, subject, and several others I can't think
of at the moment
Aerofoam wrote:
>>We were gone 10 days and when I checked-in my e-mail account had 610
>>messages in it, all but 35 were SPAM. Unfortunately, the e-mail account
>>
>>
>is
>
>
>>tied to my website account, so it's not a simple matter of changing e-mail
>>providers. What's the fun of owning a domain name if you can't use it in
>>your e-mail? So because I own the master e-mail account for
>>mouseherder.com, any variation of addresses that ends in @mouseherder.com
>>(, for instance) shows up in my inbox--a
>>
>>
>spammers
>
>
>>delight, I am.
>>
>>
>
>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
>>
>>
>it
>
>
>>will put some joy back into sitting down at the computer again
>>
>>
>
>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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