Spambutcher

[Dickie]

Am running the above and collecting my e-mail through turnpike. Although
I am able to purge my spam it still gets on to my post. Can someone
please tell me how to stop e-mail being left on my server. Thanks
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Dickie

[John Underwood]

On Wed, 21 May 2003 at 06:19:20, Dickie wrote in
demon.ip.support.turnpike
(Reference: <wJkougAY...@dorphy.demon.co.uk>)

>Am running the above and collecting my e-mail through turnpike.
>Although I am able to purge my spam it still gets on to my post. Can
>someone please tell me how to stop e-mail being left on my server. Thanks

If you have TP configured to mirror your POP3 mail you can stop it doing
so by changing the setting in TP Connect (Configure | Email transfer -
select the relevant POP3 server and click Edit. Change the radio button
from Mirror to Fetch all). Alternatively, delete or file the message -
or move it to any folder without routeing rules and the message will be
deleted next time you connect to the POP3 server.

If that doesn't do it, then spambutcher is failing to delete the
messages from your POP3 box and that is a question for them.

Before you embark on that, have another look at their claims. This is a
fairly expensive product - $30 for something that doesn't appear to be
much different (or not as good) as other products which are free.

It claims to stop 95-98% of your spam - therefore, you can expect it not
to stop 2-5%. Elsewhere, though, it says it puts intercepted mail in a
special folder (presumably not a TP one, which doesn't help you if it
contains (as they admit it may, albeit rarely) genuine mail. Other
applications put headers into mail so that you can route it as you
choose within TP.

I suggest that you would probably achieve better than 98% recognition of
spam if you were to change your From: address to something else and stop
using the one you have compromised by, effectively, telling spammers to
use it to write to you.

The outline advice on this is contained in the newuser FAQ which is
published weekly in demon.answers
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John Underwood
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