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Blacklisting pests
#24214 11/21/12 04:15 PM
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There is someone from whom I no longer wish to receive emails. The obvious solution is to blacklist them.

Then I wondered, how would that manifest itself to the sender?

So I went into the black/whitelist control panel, and blacklisted another of my (rarely used) yahoo accounts. In another window, I logged into that yahoo account and sent a test email to myself.

Then waited.

Whoah! I only had to "wait" for one second. The test email was immediately bounced back with "The user (realname@realaddress) does not accept mail from your address."

I'm impressed.

Re: Blacklisting pests
Bensheim #24216 11/21/12 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted By: Bensheim
There is someone from whom I no longer wish to receive emails. The obvious solution is to blacklist them.

Or...if you're using Apple Mail, you can go to Preferences/Rules and set up a rule that deletes offending email before it ever reaches your machine. It's a function I've used successfully for junk mail.

I found that some junk mail would have an "Unsubscribe" process (even though I hadn't "subscribed" in the first place) but the "Unsubscribe" was simply a fishing expedition to extract information. i.e. the site wanted information it could not already have.

Last edited by ryck; 11/21/12 04:28 PM.

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Re: Blacklisting pests
ryck #24217 11/21/12 05:00 PM
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Hi Ryck,

Nah, it's not junk mail in this case. It's a real live miserable and sarcastic person.

smile


Re: Blacklisting pests
Bensheim #24220 11/21/12 08:01 PM
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Aaah.....so you know my cousin. grin


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Re: Blacklisting pests
Bensheim #24222 11/21/12 10:08 PM
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> Nah, it's not junk mail in this case. It's a real live miserable and sarcastic person.

Which doesn't detract from ryck's suggestion (which I can't speak for or against...no experience).


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