Unwanted messages to fake identities on my Outlook Express account
 

I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

Unwanted messages to fake identities on my Outlook Express account
 

You or your wife's email address was in the Bcc field.
The only way to not get the email is to create a message rule, Where the
email is from 'specific' address, Delete from server (or move to a spam
folder and stop processing more rules). You have to add everyone in your
Address Book to the rule.
Any new addresses will have to be added to the rule.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

Unwanted messages to fake identities on my Outlook Express account
 

You can't stop the message from being sent to you. You can filter some
of them out.

http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm

Also check with your mail service. You may be able to do some spam
filtering there.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

Unwanted messages to fake identities on my Outlook Express account
 

I'll risk showing my ignorance but I have to ask if "adding everyone in your
Address Book to a rule" that deletes the message from the server is what you
really are recommending. Won't that delete all emails from anyone in their
Address Book? That’s a little drastic to get rid of spam. Surely I must be
misinterpreting this posting. Help me see what I am missing.

Thanks,

Tom


"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
You or your wife's email address was in the Bcc field.
The only way to not get the email is to create a message rule, Where the
email is from 'specific' address, Delete from server (or move to a spam
folder and stop processing more rules). You have to add everyone in your
Address Book to the rule.
Any new addresses will have to be added to the rule.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

Unwanted messages to fake identities on my Outlook Express account
 

I missed one important step. :-(
The rule needs to be changed to if it is not from address1 or address2, or
address3...............Delete or move to a folder.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Tom Brown" wrote in message
...
I'll risk showing my ignorance but I have to ask if "adding everyone in
your
Address Book to a rule" that deletes the message from the server is what
you
really are recommending. Won't that delete all emails from anyone in
their
Address Book? That’s a little drastic to get rid of spam. Surely I must
be misinterpreting this posting. Help me see what I am missing.

Thanks,

Tom


"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
You or your wife's email address was in the Bcc field.
The only way to not get the email is to create a message rule, Where the
email is from 'specific' address, Delete from server (or move to a spam
folder and stop processing more rules). You have to add everyone in your
Address Book to the rule.
Any new addresses will have to be added to the rule.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

Unwanted messages to fake identities on my Outlook Express account
 

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:20:01 -0800, Jennifer wrote:

I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

There is nothing that you can do, other than normal filtering. Email works
by identifying the recipient in an SMTP command called, "RCPT TO:". There
are ways to suppress the display of that email address; called, "BCC:".
Gateway SMTP servers aren't required to record the "RCPT TO:" email address
(though some do, using a special "X" header line).

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum