I do something totally different . I use LP as my email server, but I've set up the main email box to be a catch all for things aren't really addressed to either my regular accounts or a known alias account.
My known alias'd accounts are forwarded over to my regular account. If I sign up for a site for some subscription, I sign up with an alias'd account - say something like this for eweek - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I set up a forwarder in the Control Panel, anything with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' goes over to my regular email account. Once it's set, I never have to worry about LOSING an email going to the general box. If I start to get in spam from eweek, then I know exactly WHO SOLD MY EMAIL ADDRESS to spammers. Also, I've set up filters to toss most of the basic words to /dev/null , so If you've sent me something that contains that list, It's tossed. I never see it, I couldn't give you stats on how many were tossed. Once a week, I have a cron job that deletes the contents of my general email box, cause I KNOW I didn't sign up for anything coming into the general email account. Sure, it's a bit of work. It requires me to preflight email for a while, studying patterns and setting up filters, as well as setting up forwarders for the alias'd accounts. It forced me to learn php for setting up a cron job. My forwarding list is long, but I've grown it over the last 5 years. My 'auto-toss' list is long as well, but it grew over the same time. But ya know what ? all of those things were available to me on my LP webhosting account. I LOVE LP.... [Blatant Plug] You can see some of their stuff over at http://efgroup.net/efglunar.html Sure - I still do preflight on my mail account via the web, all the time - it's not a time waster for me. On a Lighter Note - What are you doing receiving all of your email with a client package in the first place ? BAD FORM, IMO. You should preflight yer email on a web browser first, MOST hosting companies actually have this built in to the account you can buy. I NEVER EVER JUST push the send/receive button for my main account. NEVER. Regards [Bill] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
