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| Thread ID: 135534 | 2013-11-14 20:12:00 | E-mail garbage | Richard (739) | PC World Chat |
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| 1359857 | 2013-11-14 20:12:00 | Any of you guys getting persistent job offer emails? These are for part time work, or something environmental. The cunning b......ds even hijack our own sender names, which is weird. In Outlook there doesn't seem to be any way to impose 'rules' to block these emails at the server, as OE had. There are a multitude of senders too, so the "junk" filter isn't usable. Any suggestion on how to stop these? | Richard (739) | ||
| 1359858 | 2013-11-14 20:30:00 | Probably noticed how clever your reply' s are on here, they think we must have this chap on our team. So be proud boy. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1359859 | 2013-11-14 21:04:00 | Thanks for the compliment Cic. These messages aren't coming from you by any chance are they? | Richard (739) | ||
| 1359860 | 2013-11-14 21:08:00 | You may fool them, but not this lad.:>\ | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1359861 | 2013-11-14 21:12:00 | You can put whatever sender name you want for the From address in the message body, it is not used for the mail transport process. The actual address used to send the mail should be recorded in the 'Return-Path' header, which can also be faked but is (usually) subject to some restrictions at the recieving server. Using your own address is an easy way to get more spam through simple anti-spam setups that employ whitelists. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1359862 | 2013-11-14 22:09:00 | I've had a few of those recently too. Looks like it's the current style the spammers are using at the moment. All the Nigerians have been quiet recently... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1359863 | 2013-11-14 22:30:00 | Yeah been getting a few - I use Mailwasher - tick box, and its gone. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1359864 | 2013-11-17 05:40:00 | Ok well me too. I have had a free Orcon address for over 10 years and that is the one the job offer spam has seized. Orcon doesn't appear to have any spam filter for free accounts. I haven't used Mailwasher for ages but is that still the best approach? |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 1359865 | 2013-11-17 07:49:00 | Ok well me too. I have had a free Orcon address for over 10 years and that is the one the job offer spam has seized. Orcon doesn't appear to have any spam filter for free accounts. I haven't used Mailwasher for ages but is that still the best approach? Mailwasher only reads any mail from your mail server. These days I do things in reverse ( kind of) I tick the "select All" tick box, then go through and untick the ones I want to let through. Click Wash mail - anything thats ticked is removed, never comes through to the Computer. I'm doing it that way these days as there's a lot of rubbish - say there's 50 emails, on average on 2-5 are ones I'm interested in, non spam. Theres two versions of mailwasher - the free one only allows one account, the paid, multiple email addresses + various other features. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1359866 | 2013-11-18 03:27:00 | Cheers and thanks Wainui. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
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