Blocking Unwanted Emails

[Goldseeker]

Over the past few months, I am getting a stack of unwanted emails from a former "Forum" member who persists in sending literally hundreds of emails to me that I don't want to receive.

His email address is a "non returning" email address.

Besides blocking the emails and routing them to the garbage bin, how can I block the person from sending emails to me in the first place?

[trout]

Over the past few months, I am getting a stack of unwanted emails from a former "Forum" member who persists in sending literally hundreds of emails to me that I don't want to receive.

His email address is a "non returning" email address.

Besides blocking the emails and routing them to the garbage bin, how can I block the person from sending emails to me in the first place?

You can always go and see him and give him an Irish "Knee Caping"
:diablo:
or simply use the software on your computer to "Filter" the emails from this person.
I have NO idea how to do this, but there is undoubtably someone on this site that is computer savvey enough to let you know how to do it :good:

[lacey]

if you can get an email program to actually bounce the emails back to him, he should then get the message that your email account is dead.  In other words, it's dead and therefore no good to keep sending emails.

Incredimail used to have this option but I don't know if they still do.

[markn]

Examine the headers of the emails and report him to his ISP.

[Goldseeker]

Please explain markn?

[markn]

If he's spamming you and you can work out who his isp is then you can report him and they may well take action. The headers of his emails may well tell you who his isp is. What email client do you use?

[robbiegal]

e-mail client??
what on earth is that?

[trout]

e-mail client??
what on earth is that?

That is the software you get and send your email through. eg microsoft outlook etc, back in the days of Windows 3.1 I used Eudora and loved it :good:

[robbiegal]

oh ta
now you're talking my language

cheers rob

[Ozcoins]

Are all the emails appearing to come from the same email address?

[Goldseeker]

All emails are comming from the same email address.

A Non Reply address.

This bloke is becomming a pain in the a**e.

[lacey]

Then use a email program to bounce it back.  it should then stop it coming to you altogether.
read here

http://www.wikihow.com/Bounce-Emails

[JeffH]

Most email clients (programs) have the facility to automatically direct emails from a specified address to a "trash" (or similar) folder. That, at least, stops clogging your inbox. Or, maybe you can set for that address to be automatically marked as spam.
Several programs I use have that sort of feature. Check the HELP section of your email program for details.

Jeff

[Fordprefect]

All emails are comming from the same email address.

A Non Reply address.

This bloke is becomming a pain in the a**e.

Without the name of the email program that you
use to send and recieve we are not going to be able
to give any possible solution to your pain.
:angel:

[Fulvio]

Hrm... Only just saw this, because my eye problems have been keeping me away.

In the interests of helping others who may find themselves in a similar situation to Goldy, here's my reply to Nevol at the time:

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> Nevol from The Australian Coin Forum has sent you the following message:
> ------------------------------------------
> Hi Fulvio
>
> I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but  
> (Goldseeker) is being bombarded with Spam emails that he says are coming
> from you, with “No Reply” return address attached.
>
> He is pretty upset about it and I was wondering if there's anything you
> can do to stop it from occurring.
>
> I'm hoping that this problem can be addressed and rectified ASAP.

They're certainly not coming from me. I only run Macs, which are immune to malware, and only access this account with webmail anyway.

However, I do occasionally receive spam which has known addresses, including mine, as the originators. Optus apparently have an open relay, and you can easily spoof it into sending email from any @optusnet address. There is absolutely nothing that can be done about this, short of the ISP locking it down, which would disadvantage all their customers, so its not going to happen.

As to how this came about, there are three possibilities (four if you count randomness, which is unlikely). We can discount malware at my end, because there is nothing here for it to attach itself to. That leaves Goldy's PC, or a service we both use, such as the forum (or one of its predecessors) as the culprit. If it was a common platform, other users would also be seeing it, as these scumbags blanket every address they can find. If nobody else has said anything, that leaves Goldy.

Not knowing what email client he runs, but knowing its a PC, I'll take a stab in the dark and say its Microsoft Outhouse.. sorry, Outlook. A known magnet for this sort of thing. Other clients such as Thunderbird are far more secure, and webmail is totally secure, which is one of the reasons I use it. If his machine HAS been compromised, it would have phoned home his address book, and done two things. First, it would have sent copies of itself to everyone in there (most of which would have been picked up by spam filters), and secondly it would have checked all those addresses for open relays it could use.

I would suspect that other Optus users in his address book are also being used similarly.