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i expect it depends on the spammer. i had an email i shut down for 2 years that was still getting the same spams when i resurrected it.
why not try mail washer? it really does take care of over 1600 spam emails for me a day so i can keep my email addresses.
I just took a quick look at mail washer and it seems pretty good because it doesn’t actually download your mail and then junk it. I have a question, which you may or may not be able to answer.
If you bounce or delete the e-mail using mail washer, do you know if it would count towards the ISP’s bandwidth limit on your account? I guess the question is: does an email counts towards a customer’s limit as soon as it hits the server, or only when the customer downloads it through their e-mail client?
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sorry – i wouldn’t know. even at up to 2000 emails per day, my email is such a small fraction of my bandwidth that there’s no way to be sure.
if the email is hosted on your server, then you’re getting charged for the bandwidth when the email arrives at your server, and then again when it goes from your server to your local email client on your machine.
But, as Cowan said, even with image-rich spam, the bandwidth is negligable.
As for the address eventually getting dropped, I would somewhat doubt it. Since the spammers aren’t paying for bandwidth, they have no reason to clean their lists, and I could also imagine in their mind that if they keep spamming, eventually the address will become active again, or the domain will get sold and become active, or whatever.
what’s REALLY shady is that some of our affiliates are apparently spamming. I’ve noticed that whenever we use a different email address to contact affiliates, even if it’s one we’ve never used for any purpose, we start getting a ton of spam to that address. It’s too much trouble to narrow it down, especially since we have great spam filtering, but it is really annoying.
Using a good spam filtering service is a lifesaver.
Thanks to the tips, Borisse.
In the case of Mail Washer, do you think it’s better just to delete the spam or bounce it. Does bouncing it cause the spammer any grief, or does it just bounce into nowhere land?
And I here you on the affiliate proble, but it’s not just affiliates. I’ve had the same thing with sponsors. After I signed up with a half dozen penis enlargement products programs, I noticed an increase in spam. It’s a piss off!
well, i didn’t stop getting spam after my email box had been off for 2 years, so it doesn’t seem that bouncing helps all that much.
Oh I wasn’t referring the notion of getting my email off their list, but rather just clogging up their networks the way they clog up mine.
nah – you’d need to send a lot more than you’re going to to do that. besides, half of them don’t even go back to the real sender.
I tend to forward everything to Gmail nowadays, they have the best spam filters and they have this dual inbox system where they automatically sort my emails into “Important” and “Inbox”.
