Most domain hosts provide a control panel in which you can set a "catch all"
account. I think by default this is set to let any "unknown" addresses
through, however you can set it to bounce so that only known names will be
placed in your inbox for pick up.
It may be worth seeing of your supplier provides this faciliy. I use this
and it removes a large chunk of junk.
Simon.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
Sent: 22 October 2006 20:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Councils using cc lists for a mailing
In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 13:18:13 on
Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jethro R Binks <[log in to unmask]> writes
>On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> > "simple" being the key word there. If spam detection could be done
with
>> > simple rules, there wouldn't be a spam issue in the first place. So
the
>> > simple rules are likely to cause more harm than good.
>>
>> Not at all, the simple rules can eradicate the majority very quickly.
>>
>> For example, of someone sends an email to [log in to unmask]
>>
>> ... then I immediately classify it as Spam, because there's no-one of
that
>> name here. [A real example, received today].
>
>Why did your mail system accept a mail for an address that didn't exist in
>the first place, for you to have to go on and (manually?) classify it as
>spam?
Because the emails are re-written by the people hosting that domain into
a form that makes it very difficult for my email client (which is by
then pulling them down by POP3) to reliably reconstruct the SMTP
envelope and reject unrecognised local parts. Yes, I should change where
it's hosted to somewhere more sophisticated.
--
Roland Perry
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