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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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On 12/06/2017 04:32 PM, 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 Have you done business with Wayfair.ca? If so, they may include an unsubscribe link. If not, don't use it. I would probably set a filter on anything with the sender that ends with "wayfair.ca". I have does similar things with persistent sources of junk mail. -- 18 days until the winter celebration (Monday December 25, 2017 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The money man gives to get him into heaven is what he ought to use to improve the earth." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_] |
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On 12/06/2017 06:03 PM, Wolf K wrote:
[snip] I checked them out. They are an international company, their Boston HQ he 4 Copley Place Floor 7 Boston, MA 02116 Check your filters. They should be "From contains", not "From is". the From field usually contains both a display name and an email address, Create a filter item for each one. Also look at the Subject lines, and concoct some "Subject Contains" filters. Test them by Move To Junk, so you can catch false positives, and possibly refine the filter string. There are also "begins with" and "ends with" options that are more specific than "contains" and should be used if appropriate. For email filters, I usually use "From ends with" when I want to intercept email from a certain domain. -- 18 days until the winter celebration (Monday December 25, 2017 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The money man gives to get him into heaven is what he ought to use to improve the earth." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_] |
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On 12/07/2017 1:19 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 12/06/2017 04:32 PM, 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 Have you done business with Wayfair.ca? If so, they may include an unsubscribe link. If not, don't use it. I would probably set a filter on anything with the sender that ends with "wayfair.ca". I have does similar things with persistent sources of junk mail. All done, see my post of 9:40 am. Rene |
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On 07 Dec 2017, "Mayayana" wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10: The unsubscribe might work. Though there's something not quite right about companies that spam you without asking and then say they'll stop if you ask them nicely. That's just the way it is, although I find that in most cases there is an opportunity to opt out in the same place you give out your email address. Sometimes it's not very obvious. I've had almost 100% success simply using the email's "unsubscribe" link, if it's a sender I'm convinced is legit. If they're not legit, it's liable to be a one-off spam and not worth thinking twice about. I've only ever had to resort to filtering out advertising emails two or three times. Junk phone calls are far, far greater problem for me these days than are junk emails. |
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On 2017-12-06, 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. If you have access to procmail on the mail server you can use a procmail recipe to send all mail from wayfair.ca to /dev/null. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On 12/07/2017 4:24 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
On 2017-12-06, 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. If you have access to procmail on the mail server you can use a procmail recipe to send all mail from wayfair.ca to /dev/null. Thanks Roger, I will check into that in case this fails. as I am not familiar wit it. Rene |
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On 07/12/2017 19:24:56, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 12/07/2017 1:19 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote: On 12/06/2017 04:32 PM, 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 Have you done business with Wayfair.ca? If so, they may include an unsubscribe link. If not, don't use it. I would probably set a filter on anything with the sender that ends with "wayfair.ca". I have does similar things with persistent sources of junk mail. All done, see my post of 9:40 am. I found your post by having to search the entire thread. The time you posted is indeed 09.40 am in the header, but we don't all live in your time zone so the date/time shown can be different in the message pane of the newsreader. Time here of your message was 15.40.29 ;-) -- mick |
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On 12/07/2017 5:08 PM, mick wrote:
On 07/12/2017 19:24:56, Rene Lamontagne wrote: On 12/07/2017 1:19 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote: On 12/06/2017 04:32 PM, 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 Have you done business with Wayfair.ca? If so, they may include an unsubscribe link. If not, don't use it. I would probably set a filter on anything with the sender that ends with "wayfair.ca". I have does similar things with persistent sources of junk mail. All done, see my post of 9:40 am. I found your post by having to search the entire thread.* The time you posted is indeed 09.40 am in the header, but we don't all live in your time zone so the date/time shown can be different in the message pane of the newsreader.* Time here of your message was 15.40.29 ;-) Yeah, I never thought of that but it makes things harder for other people in other time zones, must be an easier way. ERene |
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 19:23:56 -0600, Rene Lamontagne
wrote: On 12/07/2017 5:08 PM, mick wrote: On 07/12/2017 19:24:56, Rene Lamontagne wrote: All done, see my post of 9:40 am. I found your post by having to search the entire thread.* The time you posted is indeed 09.40 am in the header, but we don't all live in your time zone so the date/time shown can be different in the message pane of the newsreader.* Time here of your message was 15.40.29 ;-) Yeah, I never thought of that but it makes things harder for other people in other time zones, must be an easier way. The universally accepted way of referring someone back to an earlier post is to reference it by its Message-ID. For example, the Message-ID (MID) of the post to which I'm replying here is Message-ID: . |
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