I getting loads of spam hitting my inbox. Is there anyway to block anything that is not sent to me rather than 'randomshit@my.email.address.wanndoo.co.uk?
this has been going on for some time now wth Orange email server
here you have two choices.... firstly.. you dont use your email address again, sign up to a Orange PAYG account (simply just for a new email address) then close the account once opened, once done you get new email addess, this will not close too when accunt is closed
secondly you find someway you can block the second part of the email address, doing this will send it to your junk folder
NOTE: do not click on the link that comes within these emails as they do contain viruses
It would be easy enough for Orange to stop 90% of this spam, because the first part of the address it's sent to, the bit before the @ is just random rubbish most of the time, any half way decent filter on their server could flag that. The fact that they don't speaks volumes about their attitude to customer service.
What I think I will do is migrate all of my email lists, personal mail etc to my gmail account, then set the Orange account just to dump everything as spam. This is a horrid fix, one that I should not need to do as I'm paying good money to Orange.
Virus etc. are not a problem as I'm running Ubuntu Linux and MAC OS X.
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