Hi On Friday 19 June 2009 at 10:43:13 AM, in <mid:[email protected]>, Privateofcourse wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed info. Interesting method. I > personally use the old way of creating company / > contact specific email aliases: everyone has their own > contact email address IOW. Of course this means > creating forwarders for every new contact, but then you > can identify immediately where SPAM has come from...and > inform whoever it is that has leaked the email address > that they've got a problem. I also then delete the > forwarder for them and give them a new, 'clean' > alias/contact email address. > For this purpose I use a separate domain name to my > personal (friends and family only IOW) one, and of > course there is a default address that I give out if I > can't set up a new forwarder for someone/a contact > there and then. When I'm next at my PC I'll set up a > new forwarder for whoever it is and send them an email > asking them to update their contact details. I use catch-all forwarding rather than setting up lots of forwarders and make use of filters in TB! to dump mail addressed to any unrecognised alias into an "other incoming" folder. Not as rigorous as your system but it means I can invent contact email addresses on the fly if I want and set up filters for them later. > I also create a monthly temp alias with a 8 digit code. > Eg. > [email protected] > and use this for all other contact forms and such like. > Every month I simply delete the alias and create a new > one, excluding the temp address, this particular setup > is near as dammit 100% SPAM free. I used to do this six-monthly but now change it annually, unless SPAM catches up with it. It rarely gets more than 3 or 4 SPAM messages a day. I also use a separate yahoo addresss for this and two other mailing lists, which I change annually or thereabouts. For signing up on websites I tend to use disposible address services - pookmail.com and dodgmail.com seem to be defunct now but getonemail.com still worked recently. > My personal email does get occasional SPAM, and I keep > having to update the filters in cPanel. But I've just > been reading about the free Comodo AntiSpam software, > which is a free challenge and response system. This > 'looks' promising, and may be the solution I've been > looking for my personal communications. Some people seem to like those challenge/response things. I never reply to them as they look like some sort of attempt to harvest valid email addresses. Even if genuine, anybody who makes it that awkward to contact them must be pretty special for me to bother with them (-; -- Best regards, MFPA A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
