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Chaps,
Yes, I have done a search, but there doesn't seem to be the answer to my question anywhere here ...
... I am getting spam, to my own address. What can I do about it?
(I own a domain, and use certain eMail addresses for different things. For instance, all eMail that PH sends me goes to PH@<my domain>. Things from Club GTi go to clubgti@<my domain>. This is great for telling who has sold my eMail address on, and if I get spam on any one addess I simply set a return on all eMail sent to that address, and consider it dead. However, I use ogp@<my domain> as my 'own' eMail address, and this is where I am getting the spam.)
I am opening my eMail inbox on the pop server of the mail host, and deleting things that are obviously spam before firing up Outlook and downloading the useful bits. (I have been getting alot of "Your loan for XYZ is available" and "Mrs ABC has left you £££" type eMails recently.) However, I am now getting about 7 times as much spam as proper eMail, and don't know what (if anything) I can do about it. Is it just part of modern life, and I have to learn to live with it?
Oli.
Yes, I have done a search, but there doesn't seem to be the answer to my question anywhere here ...
... I am getting spam, to my own address. What can I do about it?
(I own a domain, and use certain eMail addresses for different things. For instance, all eMail that PH sends me goes to PH@<my domain>. Things from Club GTi go to clubgti@<my domain>. This is great for telling who has sold my eMail address on, and if I get spam on any one addess I simply set a return on all eMail sent to that address, and consider it dead. However, I use ogp@<my domain> as my 'own' eMail address, and this is where I am getting the spam.)
I am opening my eMail inbox on the pop server of the mail host, and deleting things that are obviously spam before firing up Outlook and downloading the useful bits. (I have been getting alot of "Your loan for XYZ is available" and "Mrs ABC has left you £££" type eMails recently.) However, I am now getting about 7 times as much spam as proper eMail, and don't know what (if anything) I can do about it. Is it just part of modern life, and I have to learn to live with it?
Oli.
Does your email address appear on any websites? If so that is one way for the spam brigade to get it.
Until earlier this week me email address was available to all via a "whois" type search on my domain name.
Whenever I register for anything I make sure that all the checkboxes are ticked/unticked to say I don't want my details passed on, etc. I also adopt the approach of allocating different addresses to different companies and never give them my personal address.
Hugh
Until earlier this week me email address was available to all via a "whois" type search on my domain name.
Whenever I register for anything I make sure that all the checkboxes are ticked/unticked to say I don't want my details passed on, etc. I also adopt the approach of allocating different addresses to different companies and never give them my personal address.
Hugh
Prof Higgins said:
SpamBayes is a free and highly recommended Outlook plugin that I have used for last year or so. Very good and gets better and better as it learns. Mail still gets downloaded but is then moved straight to junk folder. Google for it.
It takes a while to learn, but once it's up and running it's pretty good.zcacogp said:
Chaps,
Yes, I have done a search, but there doesn't seem to be the answer to my question anywhere here ...
... I am getting spam, to my own address. What can I do about it?
Other than filtering your incoming mail, nothing. It may be worth discarding your email address and starting again, and making some effort this time not to let your email address appear on any web sites, which research has shown is the main source of harvesting.
There is essentially no way to stop the spammers from sending the emails, so don't bother trying.
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