[SECC] question on email - Jeff's original question

[Jeff (W4DD)]

Thanks to Jere, Lee, and others for providing input.   Jere had the most
interesting solution, a bounce back email to the spammers indicating the
account was invalid.  I hate to abandon the arrl.net email address.  Not
sure how they got ahold of it, I'm always very careful where I put it.

 

And to Gordon's point, please make future responses to me off reflector.

 

From: Kt4zb at aol.com [mailto:Kt4zb at aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:36 PM
To: SECC at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SECC] question on email - Jeff's original question

 

I have never used this; but, am downloading to check - FREE software.  Here
is a short review.

 

Jere, KT4ZB

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Check Mailwasher, it helps to eliminate spam from your inbox...

Set up your email account(s) in MailWasher and hit the "Check Mail" button.
It then downloads all new message headers and displays message details
alongside each one (priority, subject, from, to, etc.). Any email that
MailWasher considers to be spam is highlighted for easy sorting.

Two checkboxes are located next to each message header: "Delete" and
"Bounce". If you click "Delete" the email will be marked for deletion, click
"Bounce" and the mail will be marked for bouncing - a fake "address not
found" email will be sent to the sender. Once you have decided what to
bounce and delete, click "Process Mail" to get it done and your mail client
launched for downloading all accepted emails.

MailWasher has a "blacklist" and a "friends list" to enter good and bad
email addresses. Addresses in the blacklist are marked for deletion, and
addresses in the friends list will be marked as okay. Filters can be set to
increase MailWasher's effectiveness. You can have email addressed to
"undisclosed recipients" automatically deleted and bounced for example.

Note: the program is free but limited to one email account. MW Pro supports
multiple mail accounts ($29.95).

http://www.mailwasher.net/

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