NFN Smith wrote:
Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
Frosted Flake wrote:
NFN Smith wrote:
CC D wrote:
How do I block email addresses from unwanted spam. When I get these
emails I hit the spam button but they keep coming back.
Are you trying to block this content from inside Seamonkey? If so,
I recommend that you don't bother.
These days, most servers have user-tunable spam filters active. If
you're getting unwanted content, the first thing to do is to check
your webmail client, and use the offered tool for marking messages
as Spam there.
Sounds good EXCEPT - - this does not work with comcast/xfinity.
Handling varies from provider to provider. Some do things well, some
not so well. (more below)
In about mid March I'm going to delete that email account and create
a new one with a different name that my correspondents can use.
(This one gets very little useful/real/non-SPAM so it should not be
too difficult to notify this that use it to contact me.)
I have had to do this once or twice.
I created the new address, told all my legitimate correspondents to
use it, monitored the old one for a few weeks, told all remaining
legitimate correspondents to USE THE NEW ONE and then nuked the old
one altogether. There was no reason to do it all at once.
This is one reason (among several) that I tend to discourage people
from making significant use of email done by a connectivity provider
(e.g., "no extra charge"). For the connectivity providers, email is
merely an added on service, and they often don't have sufficient
commitment to do it well. The better approach is to do your email
through a provider that specializes in email (and has a commitment to
support it). There are some free providers out there that may be
adequate -- from the little bits that I've seen, both GMX and mail.com
seem to be OK. You don't have to resort to doing something like Gmail,
Hotmail or Yahoo. However, for paid providers, prices are often in the
range of $30 US to $50 per year.
Besides better service, the another advantage of using a separate mail
provider is that it means that you're not tied to the connectivity
provider. Years ago, when I moved to a new location, I found that my
then-current ISP couldn't serve me at the new location, and I had to
change ISPs (and do it quickly enough that it was disruptive). Later
on, I had moved to a separate mail provider, and when I found it useful
to switch ISPs, it had no effect on my mail. Thus, I don't even bother
with the mail that is provided by my current ISP. And I've found that
with travel, a lot of ISPs won't let you send mail unless you're sending
from their IP addresses -- you can send from their web client, but not
an external client.
Smith
I switched ISPs 18 months ago, my old ISP (T-Online) offers a free email
service where I just had to register to continue using it. That email
address is unchanged. They already permitted me to receive / send
emails from outside their network, rather essential if you are traveling
internationally with a laptop. My new ISP also permits that, and I had
an email address with them before I even joined them. Maybe things are
different in the US or with - how do I put it - asshole ISPs. The
service does not cost them much and it's good advertising.
--
spammo ergo sum, viruses courtesy of https://www.nsa.gov/malware/
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