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DaveC426913
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I slipped up somewhere.
I have two emails, one public, one only for trusted friends.
My public one is rife with spam. That's OK. That's what it's for.
My private one has been virtually free - until a friend sent me an e-card, using my private email. I could have handled it better, but the upshot is that now I am being spammed on my private account.
My question is:
Is there a way to deal with the spam?
Does unsubscribing work? Or does that just cause them to sell my eddress to even more places?
My webhost has a blacklist option for its webmail, but I'm not sure if it actually prevents those emails from reaching my mail client (Thunderbird).
Thunderbird is thoughtful enough to label them with [SPAM], but does not junk them. I guess I need to set up a rule to run automatically (but that means I will never even see the false positives. And I do get false positives.)
I have two emails, one public, one only for trusted friends.
My public one is rife with spam. That's OK. That's what it's for.
My private one has been virtually free - until a friend sent me an e-card, using my private email. I could have handled it better, but the upshot is that now I am being spammed on my private account.
My question is:
Is there a way to deal with the spam?
Does unsubscribing work? Or does that just cause them to sell my eddress to even more places?
My webhost has a blacklist option for its webmail, but I'm not sure if it actually prevents those emails from reaching my mail client (Thunderbird).
Thunderbird is thoughtful enough to label them with [SPAM], but does not junk them. I guess I need to set up a rule to run automatically (but that means I will never even see the false positives. And I do get false positives.)