Well, this is real nice. Wathching all this crap downloading into my OE. What weekend warriors are attacking escapees now??

I'm not getting anything. Probably because all my mail goes through gmail before I move it down through the reader. Gmail is so good at filtering spam that the defaults work well enough I don't even have to write any custom filters. I'm pretty happy with it.

Are they really spam messages or are they rejection, bounce and challenge messages? That is a whole nother ball of wax but can be helped with a couple filters too.

The are mostly Mailer-daemon stuff, undeliverable mail..

Just put in a filter to delete all mail that has a blank return path and doesn't come from escapees.com. That will delete all the forged stuff and still get you any real bounces from the escapees server.

I forgot to mention that you are getting these messages because a spammer has stolen your address to use as the return address on their spam run. So far you aren't getting hit too hard, this can easily go over 10,000 per day.

I'm not sure if this is a good candidate for a system wide filter or not but it sure cuts down on the forged messages.

how do you do that?

I went to the office to check my escapees accounts, and there is no spam.

--Kellie

I can't test this with no incoming forged bounces but it should work, testing it to a forwarded mail account instead of just deleting assures you will not miss any good e-mail if there is a glitch.

Log onto mail.escapees.com, go to "Rules"

Create a new rule called "bounce"

Set the Where to "Header"

Set the condition to "Return-Path\: <>"

Set Comparison to "Contains"

Click "Save"

Click "Add and/or"

Click "And"

Click "Save"

Click "Add Condition"

Set Where to "From"

Set Comparison to "Does not Contain"

Set Search to "postmaster@mail\.escapees\.com"

Click "Save"

Set Action Type to "Forward" and enter an e-mail address to collect the messages that hit this filter. A temporary gmail account works well for this.

Once you are sure that it is working you can switch it to delete.

Personally I use Mailwasher from www.firetrust.com which has a nice free version or a really good paid version to deal with all of my spam and unwanted mail before it has a chance to corrupt my computer.

If I could only log in to my escapees mail.. that's such a chore anymore. Thanks stan.. maybe i'll call the office.

Either that or just quit using the darn thing..grrr

Then just go with the free mailwasher, makes dumping junk easy and safe.