Mweb email

Lounger said:
MWEB offers a function that is supposed to block individual addresses - rather like the one on this forum. The address is not changing.
Click to expand...

You clearly have no idea on how spam filtering/smtp mails work.
Is called spoofing - I can send a mail to you and make it appear from [email protected] but its actually sent from [email protected]

As its a spoofed address blocking [email protected] won't block the email. You would need to blacklist [email protected]. But if you do that the next spam you get from them will just be from [email protected]
 
gregmcc said:
You clearly have no idea on how spam filtering/smtp mails work.
Is called spoofing - I can send a mail to you and make it appear from [email protected] but its actually sent from [email protected]

As its a spoofed address blocking [email protected] won't block the email. You would need to blacklist [email protected]. But if you do that the next spam you get from them will just be from [email protected]
Click to expand...
It's the same identical address all the time. It's a subscription the previous owner had, like his club membership, flat owner's society and other things. It has nothing to do with normal spam class mail.
 
Have you had a look at the email headers to double check this its the same address? If its the same all the time then Mweb should be able to block it. Have you tried to use any spam filtering software - mailwasher is pretty good.
 
Lounger said:
It's the same identical address all the time. It's a subscription the previous owner had, like his club membership, flat owner's society and other things. It has nothing to do with normal spam class mail.
Click to expand...
MWEB's response was to suggest an update to Internet Explorer (seriously)

- and yes, the headers were identical. These were things like gym membership, Discovery card and so on.

Gmail is 100 times better at handling spam.
 
SabreWolfy said:
If you have a 100% reliable spam-solution, I'm sure we'd all be interested to hear about it.
Click to expand...

it's called good practice and little bit of common sense imho. get yourself a <guid>@<isp/place>.<com/co/whatever>. then don't use that, rather make aliases from it and use those carefully for friends/family/private/business. if one of those 4 get compromised then you just remove the alias and get a new one. for the rest i just use a "spam" email address. doing this for years and i have very little if nothing at all spam in the real emails apart from my "spam" email i used for rest of sites etc etc.
 
Yeah. Use some throw-away/SPAM email address when filling in online forms, etc.. Don't ever use you actual email address or even your ISP email address for online forms.
 
SabreWolfy said:
Yeah. Use some throw-away/SPAM email address when filling in online forms, etc.. Don't ever use you actual email address or even your ISP email address for online forms.
Click to expand...
Fail.

I give them my gmail address BECAUSE I know I can manage the SPAM. Cellphone numbers are a different story.
 
struggling to get my mweb email account setup on a bb curve 9300. Any tips anyone?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X