Re: blocked senders by domains
- From: "Poprivet" <poprivet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:58:00 -0400
Ron Seiden wrote:
With all the entries in my Blocked Senders list, certain locations
show up regularly (particularly certain countries). Since I know
where I *won't* be getting email from, I'd like to be able to block
anything/everything from such locales. When I previously posted this
question I was advised to just enter the domain, but when I put
things like "ru", "ro" and so on into the blocked senders list, it
did not block emails from such domains. Do I need to enter it with
the dot before it (like ".ro")? Just how do I go about blocking
entire countries? Thanks.
Bruce's response is about as close to that as you can get. Keep in mind
though that most spams contain forged headers and the To, CC, and From lines
are almost always forgeries and won't contain the actual source of the
e-mail. Most often it'll simply be the name of one of those spammed, and
the names rotate to different ones from spam run to spam run. And those
won't be .ro or .ru or .cn, etc..
About the only way to block mail on a country basis is to use a 3rd party
app and there are a couple of good ones. The upside is they work and are
VERY effective because they can use many blocklists to block other kinds of
spam too. The downside is, they all use proxy methods.
MailWasher is the best program I know of for this purpose and is rather
simple to set up, but you do have to read the instructions.
The only thing about MailWasher that I don't like is its phoney "bounce"
feature, because it works on the forged From line and the person it
"bounces" the mails to is almost always an innocent bystander. Thus, you
can be accused of spamming by using the bounce feature.
Otherwise it's an excellent program though. I used it for a long time to
block o'seas e-mails until my new ISP had its own filtering in place that
does a decent job of blocking them.
Have you talked to your ISP to see if there is a spam filter they can put on
your account/s? Note: Spam filters often also catch "good" e-mails so you
still may want to be able to look thru it for good mail. Some ISPs just
drop the mail on the floor, so any mistaken good mails never get to you.
HTH
Pop`
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