Do you have a spam filter integrated with it LeN?
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§ ita § - Feb 21, 2005 5:55:42 am PST #1757 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Feb 21, 2005 5:57:33 am PST #1758 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita, no spam filter. Thunderbird has its own I think. It flags some stuff as spam and then you click on a menu item "delete messages flagged as spam" and out they go. It doesn't catch everything, but admittedly, my 2 accts are not spam heavy.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2005 6:05:16 am PST #1759 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have some problems with Eudora (though it's not eating my cycles). However I get so much freaking spam to my main account, and Spamnix/Eudora handles it so well that I may be locked in forever.
DXMachina - Feb 21, 2005 6:05:52 am PST #1760 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I like Thunderbird, too. I've been using it at work, and it does a great job of filtering spam.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2005 6:08:01 am PST #1761 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
However I get so much freaking spam to my main account,
Sometimes you just gotta kill an email account and get a new one. If not, then I hear that when Jesus comes back He might get rid of spam....
eta: Thumbs up from me for Thunderbird - although I get little spam these days.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2005 6:10:54 am PST #1762 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sometimes you just gotta kill an email account and get a new one
But it's ita@myfirstandprimarydomain.com. I'm definitely not changing the username, and ... it may take counselling for me to change to one of my other domains.
There was one e-mail program I used that let you send user-not-found bounce messages. Does anyone know if a) any spam filters will do that and b) spammers actually ever reduce the names on their list?
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2005 6:22:05 am PST #1763 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
spammers actually ever reduce the names on their list?
I would think so, as I'd think that spammers wouldn't want give a bunch of money to the email harvester folks for a bunch of bad email addresses. But that's a guess - maybe the cost of buying a list of harvested emails is low enough that the spammers don't care if half of 'em might be bad. And I'm also assuming that the spammers would go through the trouble of sending lists of bad email addresses back to the harvester folks.
eta:
There was one e-mail program I used that let you send user-not-found bounce messages.
Suddenly I'm confused - email generally gets bounced back from your mail server. Would bouncing it back from your PC actually work? (i.e. would it fool the sender?)
DXMachina - Feb 21, 2005 6:28:56 am PST #1764 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
But it's ita@myfirstandprimarydomain.com.
I have the same kind of problem. The number of spams I'm getting every day on my primary account is getting close to intolerable.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2005 6:32:03 am PST #1765 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would bouncing it back from your PC actually work? (i.e. would it fool the sender?)
That I don't know. It fooled the casual eye, and my hope (completely unfounded, I know) is that the spammers wouldn't bother to make a detailed check of a bounce message, since if someone's going to that much trouble ...
I don't know.
Laura - Feb 21, 2005 6:55:30 am PST #1766 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
But it's ita@myfirstandprimarydomain.com.
Same issue here. I did just bump up the spam filter level again on that account after the discussion here this morning. I don't use a specific spam eater, just the Thunderbird settings and the variety of options available through my host (ICDSoft).
Replying with a not found would be fun for the ones I have yet to rid myself of. Don't know if it work, but I would feel like I was trying something.