Jeremy Taffel wrote:
I just had a look at my freeserve (wanadoo now) account. I have stopped using it because of the volume of spam. Over 4000 spams since mid-March! About 600 had virus attachments. Many did not even have my email address from what I could tell (how does that work?).
Freeserve gives you an [effective] email domain.
When you set up your account, your choose a userid and a domain:
<userid> @ <domain> . {freeserve|fsnet|fsbusiness} . co . uk
when email is sent to you, the freeserve servers split it at the <domain> bit. You then download either email for an individual <userid> by logging into their pop server using "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", or you can download all emails at your domain by logging in using "domain..." - in which case, regardless of whatever userids have been used, you'll get all email sent to your domain (thus making it dead easy to set up unique email accounts for those places that insist on them; and you can then trace any possible spam source if it arrives at one of these userids).
Unless you are referring to the "To:" field not containing your e-addr, like this:
From: "Terry Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: *** SPAM *** Fwd: Re: Low Cost Term Life ins. Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 05:51:18 -0200
However, if you look at the headers of the message, you'll see that the mail system has used this field to deliver the mail:
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have found it worthwhile to have a :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( address )
... so that everything suspicious is diverted to one folder, and can then be zapped from there.
The general settings in Turnpike are :
Filing disable 'File' within this folder Rules accept dead letter email Receiving do not send MDN's by default Sending use a specific personanlity Access full
This simple method 'captures' almost all unwanted email - spam - in one area ( folder ), which is then easy to deal with.
Demon has also introduced spam filtering at the ISP ... which has made a considerable difference, although inevitably, some still get through to individual subscribers.
I use SMTP for mail/news not POP.
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