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Thread ID: 74348	2006-11-19 20:28:00	Does Mail Washer have to check default account ?	wolffie (11487)	Press F1

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500465	2006-11-22 13:24:00	When you bounce an email does it alert the sender to the fact that your email is live, or does it give them the message that it couldn't be delivered ? In other words - is bouncing spam a good idea ?	wolffie (11487)
500466	2006-11-22 23:00:00	If you to to tools menu and then "blacklist and friends list". Click onto one of those email address on the list you have added, and then hit "options". It allows a tickbox for auto bouncing. If you not want you can untick it. Somewhere in the menu you can also choose to do "auto delete" without notifying you, that means all those email you have blacklisted will be deleted without letting you know. Well. If you bounce it sends an email to the spammer a ERROR email of non delivery. The problem is most of the spam is not using their real email addy, they are hijacking someone else's email addy to spam you. The smart cookies. ;) So I think there is little point, I personally just delete without bouncing. If you not reply back they cannot tell if they sent it to a email addy that someone checks each day or never use at all, such as a abandoned email addy. Bouncing also takes your own time to send off the email to them as well. Chances is you will get the same spam from various other email addresses so I see no point in bouncing. All I do is blacklist them to delete rather than bouncing.	Nomad (952)
500467	2006-11-22 23:10:00	When you bounce an email does it alert the sender to the fact that your email is live, or does it give them the message that it couldn't be delivered ? In other words - is bouncing spam a good idea ?You'll find that the popular opinion of bouncing spam is... unpopular. I do it consistently, because of the sense of satisfaction it gives me. But as mentioned - most spammers use spoofed or fake addresses and bouncing the mail serves no real purpose. However... the bounce function is great at other times, eg if you receive a valid email from someone that you don't want - you can view the message on the mail server via Mailwasher, then bounce it, which indicates to the sender that you never received it. It's a great feature for when you don't know how to politely decline an invitation of sorts! :D	Greg (193)
500468	2006-11-23 23:30:00	Mail Washer is doing funny things to-day. I can send a test to the account I want Mail Washed and it picks that up, but it isn't picking up the other mail which is going straight through to Outlook Express - spam and all. Any ideas what I might have done to mess the system up ?	wolffie (11487)
500469	2006-11-23 23:35:00	...Thank you, Greg, for your thoughts on spam blocking. I can see how it might be useful !...and Mail Washer seems to be catching emails again. I suppose it's having teething problems. Maybe tomorrow it will catch all of them	wolffie (11487)
500470	2006-11-23 23:36:00	Sorry - I meant bouncing, not blocking :blush:	wolffie (11487)
500471	2006-11-23 23:52:00	There can also be another problem: If you have mailwasher checking mail say,every 10 mins but OE checks say,every 5 mins I think those mails go straight to OE.	kjaada (253)
500472	2006-11-24 00:07:00	If Kjaada is right, which I suspect he is, disable OE's auto check function. I've disabled mine in Mozilla mail because mailwasher's auto check does the job just fine.	Greg (193)
500473	2006-11-24 18:59:00	Does anyone know if Norton Firewall is incompatible with Mail Washer ? I can't seem to send attachments at the moment in Outlook Express, but they do send from the Web, and without Norton's email protection for mail going out. Also, during the day Mail Washer has been consistently missing some spam which is going directly into Outlook Express - almost as if the spam knew it was being watched ! Could I have set something up wrongly ?	wolffie (11487)
500474	2006-11-24 19:01:00	...I did disable auto-checking mail in OE, by the way,	wolffie (11487)
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