Damned junk emails.. how to stop?

[blues n twos]

Hi all,

recently I have been bombarded with four or five emails a day and I can't seem to stop the source.

One of them had an address that was connected with a villa I rented in Florida earlier this year but sending polite "please stop sending "has just increased the amount

Below is pasted the "properties" from the latest one just recieved....

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from aamtain08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35])
by mtain06-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP
id <20061017185732.QDMH1063.mtain06-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtain08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>
for <[email protected]>; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:57:32 +0100
Received: from dsl.dynamic8121316048.ttnet.net.tr ([81.213.160.48])
by aamtain08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP
id <20061017185731.OWSQ17500.aamtain08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@dsl.dynamic8121316048.ttnet.net.tr>
for <[email protected]>; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:57:31 +0100
Received: (qmail 21195 invoked from network); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:00:01 +0300
Received: from unknown (HELO 81.213.81.131) (81.213.81.131)
by dsl.dynamic8121316048.ttnet.net.tr with SMTP; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:00:01 +0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:57:24 +0300
From: Rosaline Landry <[email protected]>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [email protected]
Subject: ream frank
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="------------050304080400070600060802"
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 7.5.427 [268.13.4/480]

Is there anyway I can block these damned emails as i'm getting 20-30 a week and i'm getting really pi1ssed off

Jon

 

[Marks adventure]

If you have got Norton try norton anti spam or you could download a programme called mailwasher..

 

[blues n twos]

If you have got Norton try norton anti spam or you could download a programme called mailwasher..

I have got AVG 7.5 proffesional as a security programme. I am not an IT guy so if I got this "mailwasher" programme, what do I do with it

Jon

 

[Droopy Dick]

Mailwasher interrogates your email host and list the emails waiting for you. You can then remove the garbage before you download.

That being said, I use Thunderbird as a mail program and it will chuck most of the garbage into the junk folder, learning as it goes along other stuff that you don't want as you send it manually to the junk folder.

 

[Steve]

Is there anyway I can block these damned emails as i'm getting 20-30 a week and i'm getting really pi1ssed off

You've already broken rule number one.

Never display your email address on public forums.

 

[judge]

Mailwasher Pro is an Anti-Spam but a cute one to use it properly you email will become two-phase, your mail is collected by Mailwasher and checked against their database, if its blacklisted it tells you and prompts to delete it from the mail server. If it is a genuine sender you recognise you mark it as 'friend' and Mailwasher remembers.

You then process your sorted mail and the good stuff goes into your email client and the crap dissappears.

Over time it learns what's good and what's bad, if you detect any SPAM you mark it bad, and this is the cute bit, it bounces the mail to the sender 'unknown recipient' the sender of the SPAM then usually drops this from their hit list.

Eventually your SPAM reduces. You can get it as a full feature time-limited trial.

I trialled it and now use it permanently

 

[Iain Hogg]

Try www.spamfighter.com

Its free for personal use and works just like Mailwasher.

Iain

 

[blues n twos]

Thanks for the info chaps

Will have a look at the programmes.

Didn't mean to post private email add as just copied the "properties" from the junk email.

Jon

 

[Iain Hogg]

Thanks for the info chaps

Will have a look at the programmes.

Didn't mean to post private email add as just copied the "properties" from the junk email.

Jon

If you can't edit it, get a mod to delete the email address

 

[Dickieboy]

You've already broken rule number one.

Never display your email address on public forums.

.
Steve that's rule number two, he broke rule one by opening and answering one of them.
.
Blues' get mailwasher or cloudmark, mailwasher is the better and it's worth registering as well.
Whatever you do don't, repeat don't use Norton you regret it bigtime.

 

[cookie]

i use mailwasher pro, works pretty well but i don't bounce mail. just creates more traffic & it's naive to think spammers remove your addy from lists 'cos it bounces.

i just delete on my ISP's mail server. if you do accidently delete something you can usually get most of it back. which is nice.

 

[centaur]

Broke rule #2 also, NEVER respond to junk mail it tells them that your email address is genuine.

 

[judge]

i use mailwasher pro, works pretty well but i don't bounce mail. just creates more traffic & it's naive to think spammers remove your addy from lists 'cos it bounces.

My scepticism matched yours initially - but how else do I explain a huge reduction in SPAM following using Mailwasher Pro as it was designed to be used, I guess I could believe it to be a massive conincidence

 

[Padge]

Probably not an option if you need this email address, but get a Gmail account.
It's google's mail and the spam filter is excellent. All the spam goes to a spam folder to review or delete, but all real messages get through with no problem.

Best I've used.

 

[cookie]

My scepticism matched yours initially - but how else do I explain a huge reduction in SPAM following using Mailwasher Pro as it was designed to be used, I guess I could believe it to be a massive conincidence

hmmm.

not heard of that happening before. worth a try i suppose.

BTW mailwasher people used to produce a rather good set of filters you could download from their website. not using it at the moment, but have in the past. i think i'll look into that as well.

 

[newman7096]

I have now created two email addresses, one for registering and buying online and another personal one for everything else....so far so good!

 

[judge]

Probably not an option if you need this email address, but get a Gmail account.
It's google's mail and the spam filter is excellent. All the spam goes to a spam folder to review or delete, but all real messages get through with no problem.

Best I've used.

For non-commercial use great - if you can live with Google's Privacy policy and zero responsibility in the event of loss of data.

 

[Zippy]

Not gonna solve your problem, but a little trick I use...

If your ISP allows unlimited e-mail addresses (ie. [email protected]), then each time you order something from an internet supplier, use their name as the 'anything'. You don't even need to do any admin or setup on your mail system for them to work.

So order from BT and the address you use becomes
'[email protected]'.

That way you can track who's trading your e-mail details or also see if spam is using one of those addresses.

Its only happened a few times, but it stops the direct marketing people in their tracks when you point out that you declined the option to get info about 'other quality offers' when ordering / registering and they appear to have sold your specific, company named e-mail address and thus breached the data protection act...oops

Also, if one of the addresses is being used for volume spam, then Plus net allow you to create a mailbox on their server matching your 'special' e-mail address and then just don't retrieve the mail for it...instant black hole!
(I'm sure other ISPs can do something similar)

Steve