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Stop 1 E-mail
On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 17:58:40 -0500, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote: Using Thunderbird 52.5 in Windows 10, I have one company that is consistently sending me E-mail, The company is called Wayfair.ca, they are an online furniture company, I have created rules from a message numerous times, I have added them to my hosts file but they still keep coming through. my hosts file seems OK as I can no longer reach there web site They are very annoying as they send them every few days. Is there any way I can stop them once and for all. Thanks, Rene Mail takes an indirect route. It uses servers. The servers talk to one another. transport some_server ------------- some_server / \ / \ wayfair.ca rene.ca So in that diagram, adding wayfair.ca to your HOSTS file, won't do anything. Because a packet didn't come straight from wayfair.ca to your place. You're right that a hosts file entry won't help, but it's not because of the path that email took to get to him. Instead, it's for the simple reason that hosts file lookups are performed when your PC needs to translate a domain name to an IP address. That kind of lookup isn't required (i.e., isn't performed) when receiving email. Instead, you need to have a spam filter, snip Correct. Sometimes the trick is in constructing one that's effective, meaning it does what it's supposed to do without doing too much. |
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