privacy - help required please

[picanin]

Originally posted by Curio
Picanin, I sometimes send e mail greeting cards.

So u may well be inadvertantly feeding the spammers with email addy's?

[Jangar]

Originally posted by Koekie
Try downloading mailwasher at http://www.mailwasher.net - it's free and you can bounce mails back to these people (and any others that bother you) and eventually your spam mail will be almost non-existant.

How does this work ? Does it replace your Outlook Express ? :confused:

[Ameniatha]

Jangar, I found this in their FAQ:

Q. How does MailWasher work?
A. MailWasher works directly with your email server, exactly like your email program does. But there is one important difference: you can tell MailWasher to delete a message at the server, without downloading it - or you can bounce an email back to the sender so that it looks as though your address is not valid.

MailWasher retrieves information about all the emails on the server. With that information (some of which is also processed by MailWasher) you can decide what to do with each individual email - download, delete, or bounce back.

If you check your account with MailWasher first, you can delete or bounce the emails you do not want. Then, when you use your email program, it downloads only the remaining emails, those that you want to read.

MailWasher can be thought of as a "first line of defence" which can weed out junk, large wasteful attachments, and potentially harmful viruses.

[Ameniatha]

Question is if this will work on the ******* that use ones own mail addy to send spam with.....??

[FlyingBok]

Originally posted by Koekie
Try downloading mailwasher at http://www.mailwasher.net - it's free and you can bounce mails back to these people (and any others that bother you) and eventually your spam mail will be almost non-existant.

Lo Koeks .. sista ..

Does your mailwasher also "empty itself " after a while ?

Wait let met open a Thread - maybe you will not see this and it might be a little "off the topic" :o