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Blocking Spam Emails
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My email address seems to have been recently acquired by spammers and I am getting an irritating increase in spam.
blocking them isnt working because the senders email address isnt t the same as the 'reply address'.
Sometimes the senders address is my own email address and/or various names ending with my email domain.
Also I am using windows live mail which 'message rules' doesnt seem to apply to.
All these email seem to have similar subjects ( been through all the banks and paypal now) currently its about court appearances etc.
Phew.... so question is what is the best product to reduce the annoyance please?
blocking them isnt working because the senders email address isnt t the same as the 'reply address'.
Sometimes the senders address is my own email address and/or various names ending with my email domain.
Also I am using windows live mail which 'message rules' doesnt seem to apply to.
All these email seem to have similar subjects ( been through all the banks and paypal now) currently its about court appearances etc.
Phew.... so question is what is the best product to reduce the annoyance please?
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Chrissa, they havent got into my emails, It looks like the address has been 'crawled' from my web site. The emails from my address are not actual addresses ie things like [email protected] or [email protected].
this means I cant block the domain because it looks like it came from my domain.
I dont think the blockers access the 'reply address' which is the real spam address.
this means I cant block the domain because it looks like it came from my domain.
I dont think the blockers access the 'reply address' which is the real spam address.
This is an example from the email properties ( i have removed any identifying info ( i hope)
but you can see the email is related to administrator@ and f6b1a17e@
Return-Path:
X-Original-To: me@myemail address.co.uk
Delivered-To: me@myemail address.co.uk
X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender
Received-SPF: none (no valid SPF record)
Received-SPF: none (no valid SPF record)
X-No-Relay: not in my network
X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender
Received: from IDMWDVL (unknown [ip address])
by ple-01.keele.netcentral.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9801262C1;
Fri, 16 May 2014 10:44:19 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from 3905.myemail.co.uk (ip address) by myemail.co.uk (ip address) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8R8MVBEJ; Wed, 14 May 2014 09:05:61 GMT
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:98:86 GMT
From: "[email protected]"
Message-ID:
To: [email protected]
Subject: IMPORTANT - Internal Use only
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Next_86256_8846790629.6758743524751"
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 2013.0.3469 [3722/7503]
X-AVG-ID: ID44EF32B7-72D8B891
but you can see the email is related to administrator@ and f6b1a17e@
Return-Path:
X-Original-To: me@myemail address.co.uk
Delivered-To: me@myemail address.co.uk
X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender
Received-SPF: none (no valid SPF record)
Received-SPF: none (no valid SPF record)
X-No-Relay: not in my network
X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender
Received: from IDMWDVL (unknown [ip address])
by ple-01.keele.netcentral.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9801262C1;
Fri, 16 May 2014 10:44:19 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from 3905.myemail.co.uk (ip address) by myemail.co.uk (ip address) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8R8MVBEJ; Wed, 14 May 2014 09:05:61 GMT
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:98:86 GMT
From: "[email protected]"
Message-ID:
To: [email protected]
Subject: IMPORTANT - Internal Use only
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Next_86256_8846790629.6758743524751"
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 2013.0.3469 [3722/7503]
X-AVG-ID: ID44EF32B7-72D8B891
The first line in the example should read
Return-Path: [email protected]
i think ab didn't like the brackets
Return-Path: [email protected]
i think ab didn't like the brackets
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