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Saturday, November 25, 2006

The best and most effective Way to stop Spam permanently

I have a lot of email accounts and I receive over 500 spam mails daily on my accounts. I've set up mailserver side spam-filters on nearly every account, I use Thunderbird and I am very satisfied with it's built in anti-spam feature.

But sometimes I just wish, I would know who misuses my addresses for spam and then I just want to stop it. Finito.

I found a very interesting article about a trick with Google Mail (Gmail).
This gave me the idea which might not be new or something special, but it is very effective.

1. Register a new domain for your future email communication.

2. Set up a "secret" email account. Use more than five letters and maybe a cryptic one, because spammers will try to spam randomly all kinds of adresses from your host if they choose to. Never use this address for any communication.

3. Two options: Set up a "catch all" mail account which is forwarded to your secret address or set up an account for every website you are registered to and forward it to your secret address.


Now you can see who is sending spam to you or sold your address. You can stop it by killing the email account, bounce all received mails, or whatever you like to do with it.