noblemods on hols

[broad]

Can't seem to set up an automated e'mail response thingy, but then I never was much good with computers !!!

I'm off for a couple of weeks so by all means send e'mails but I won't be reading them for a while !

Cheers

Graham

[Ash M400]

Never use the auto response, spammers will know you are real and will fill up your mailbox.

Have a good un.

[mr noble]

Ash,

I don't suppose you know how to stop spams?

I get about 100 everyday! I get about 2000 mails after a week or 2 away and there will be about 20 that are actually for me!

Drives me insane.

Its my own domain name so they can send it to "anything @ gn1.co.uk" most annoyingly, my host server don't offer any solution.

Help would be nice.

G

[hunttheshunt]

Get yourself some decent software and the problem will go away.

[duplicity]

Mozilla Thunderbird is free and has good spam filtering built in.

[Mr Noble]

Just got the guys at my host place to only pass through mail thats actually to [e-mail] and not anything@gn1......

That should kill half of it.

Thanks though chaps.



G

Edited by Mr Noble on Friday 22 September 12:48

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Mr Noble said:

Just got the guys at my host place to only pass through mail thats actually to [e-mail] and not anything@gn1......

That should kill half of it.

Thanks though chaps.



G

And now the spam engines are reading your post and have your real address... I'd remove that mate.

[nobleguy]

mr noble said:

Ash,

I don't suppose you know how to stop spams?

I get about 100 everyday! I get about 2000 mails after a week or 2 away and there will be about 20 that are actually for me!

Drives me insane.

Its my own domain name so they can send it to "anything @ gn1.co.uk" most annoyingly, my host server don't offer any solution.

Help would be nice.

G

I own a domain name but they can only send to accounts I specifically set up. If "anything @ gn1.co.uk" has been set up by you, and you can live with deleting the account for a few days and losing the valid emails in that period, re-creating that account a few days later may solve the problem.

I was getting about 100 a day all of a sudden a couple of months back and just deleted the email account, rereated it about 4 days later and the spam was gone. May not always work for everyone but might be worth a try...

[Mr Noble]

nobleguy said:

mr noble said:

Ash,

I don't suppose you know how to stop spams?

I get about 100 everyday! I get about 2000 mails after a week or 2 away and there will be about 20 that are actually for me!

Drives me insane.

Its my own domain name so they can send it to "anything @ gn1.co.uk" most annoyingly, my host server don't offer any solution.

Help would be nice.




G

I own a domain name but they can only send to accounts I specifically set up. If "anything @ gn1.co.uk" has been set up by you, and you can live with deleting the account for a few days and losing the valid emails in that period, re-creating that account a few days later may solve the problem.

I was getting about 100 a day all of a sudden a couple of months back and just deleted the email account, rereated it about 4 days later and the spam was gone. May not always work for everyone but might be worth a try...

could have a crack at that, but I would worry about the ones I'd miss.


TBH, since my host changed my account to only accept my specific address, I have only had about 4 in the last 4 hours. Normally that would be about 40!!

Seems to have worked.

Thx

G

Edited by Mr Noble on Friday 22 September 12:55

[alex s]

Back on topic !!!!!!!!!!!!



Have a good Holiday Graham.

[broad]

LOL !! - my thread turned into a computer Q&A

Cheers

G