Re: Spam in my Inbox although not addressed to me
From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 04/14/04
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:04:57 +0200
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:02:25 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
>You've been BCC'd. Happens all the time, alas.
BCC is a Good Thing, else your email address would be visible on all
the other computers the spam was co-addressed to. Then if any one of
those computers was address-harvested or malware'd, you'd be hit.
The apparent downside of BCC is that without a visible recipient
address, you can't filter on email alias - but in fact, this is itself
a filterable criterion. I now filter base address as well as aliases,
so that whatever's left is bulk-mailed (e.g. elists) or spam.
Let's say you use the following email addresses:
- aaa; your base email address that you keep secret
- bbb; an alias used for personal stuff
- ccc; an alias used for work stuff
- ddd; an alias used for the "Mail To" link on your web site
- eee; an alias used for newsgroups and other public forums
- fff; a disposable alias for web site logins, registration etc.
Your filtering would be something like:
- if anyr = bbb and not ccc -> In-Personal
- if anyr = ccc and not bbb -> In-Work
- if anyr = ddd -> In-Website
- if anyr = eee -> In-Forums
- if anyr = fff -> In-Junk
For "anyr", read "Any Recipient" i.e. looks at both To: and CC:
addressing fields. That's Eudora syntax; other email app, YMMV.
What's left is either sent to both work and personal, or is BCC'd to
you, and you'd treat it accordingly.
>Derek wrote:
>> Recently I have received unsolicited mail in my Hotmail Inbox which
>> is not addressed to my account and apparently has no sender's address
>> (false or otherwise). I have reported it to abuse@hotmail.com (with
>> e-mail headers) but as yet have had no response from that department.
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