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Questions tagged [spam-prevention]

Generally refers to techniques that aid in avoiding receiving any email or message that is either unwanted or unsolicited.

Spam, vile scourge of the Internet, is any email or message that is posted or sent without the recipient's request or want for it.

Spam is often also known as junk mail and was so named following a Monty Python sketch wherein Spam (the luncheon meat) is featured in every menu item.

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Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work?

Most of the time when I see someone post their email address online, especially if it's a personal address, they use something like me [at] example [dot] com instead of the actual email address (me@example.com). Even top members of this community…
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IP address that is the equivalent of /dev/null

Is there an IP address that would result in any packet sent to be ignored (blackholed)? I know I can always set up a router with an IP address and then just have it ignore all packets sent to it, but does such a thing exist to save me the trouble?
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How can I gently explain to non-techie friends they are the victim of a hoax?

We all have them. On Facebook, Twitter, even in email. That friend (or friends) that rebroadcast every hoax from abandoned puppies, abducted little girls or whichever political outrage email is currently en vogue. How can I educate my friend(s) who…
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Is there any way to answer a phone call using a dial-up modem?

Lately, we've been getting a LOT of telemarketers and spammers calling our home line, evn though we're entered in the national Do Not Call directory. The other day, I unearthed a Pentium 1 in my basement - it had a dial-up modem in it, and we could…
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Disable gmail's spam filter when forwarding email?

I have several (4-6) different Google accounts, I use the Gmail addresses for different reasons and I forward the emails from all of them to a single Gmail account. Occasionally, important messages in these various Gmail accounts will get mistakenly…
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How to use command line whois for "spam infected" domains like apple.com?

In short: is there any way to get the full whois-details for domains like apple.com, using the command line on Max OS X? Running whois on the command line for, for example, apple.com is like searching for all domains that include that phrase. So,…
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How Is It Possible To Send Email Under Our Domain Name

Spammers or someone is sending emails using our domain. The emails are from a user we didn't create called regeniaberry67a@ourdomain.com.au. The email is to regeniaberry@ubtanet.com. The content of the email talks about a stock that is 6…
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Why does gmail think mail my server sends is a spam?

Complete message received by Gmail (email, server ip and host are replaced): Delivered-To: Received: by 10.180.24.132 with SMTP id u4cs216052wif; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.9.165 with SMTP id…
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Why is @ in email address sometimes written as [at] on webpages?

Why is @ sometimes in webpages written as [at]? Does it have any specific reason ?
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Is there a way to use Regular Expressions in Outlook rules?

Our mail server manages to filter a lot of spam, but the spammers seem to be finding ways to get around it. I am finding that much the current crop of stuff that gets through could be filtered on my end if only I could make a rule that could clue…
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Finding BCC in Internet mail headers

I am running Outlook 2010 connected to an Exchange 2003 server. Often times, the spam that I received is sent to "undisclosed-recipients". I'm guessing that's because my email address (or an email address for a group I am part of) is in the BCC…
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Will jh3df6724@k2378jdfw.com bypass spam filters?

I'm very paranoid. Don't ask why because that's besides the point here. I want to create a domain with some random name, such as 723jr2d.com And then, when anyone asks for my email address, I want to generate a new random email forwarder for that…
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Thunderbird junk mail filter problems

After a hiatus of several years where I was using Apple Mail I've gone back to using Thunderbird for my mail. I'm generally pleased with Thunderbird. I like that it works on all OSes (I use several). I like that it can handle multiple accounts (I…
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DMARC Email SPF policy_evaluated & auth_result have inconsistent status

Some ( but not all ) of the emails from our service are flagged as phishing by gmail and spam by hotmail. The emails being marked as phishing are sent from an application deployed on EC2 VMs which use amazon SES to do the actual sending. The…
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Gmail "Message left on the server", how to automatically delete them?

In the last few weeks, I've been receiving many alerts from Gmail while reading emails from another account. The warnings, for example, read Message left on the server: "Thank you for setting the order No. 475456", because they contain some virus or…
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