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MS Office Forum / Outlook / New Users / March 2008invalid email address
In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address. I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers. Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way? Can I make it invalid? Thank you You mean when posting to an online service like this? Sure, don't type your (correct) email address. See my address or from many others to see an example. Note: I've removed your valid address in my reply.  SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- > In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address. > I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers. > Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way? > Can I make it invalid? > Thank you Thank you, I changed my isp a week ago so do not use my old freeserve address any more. I have changed my address in the newsgroups to the old address. Hope that works. > You mean when posting to an online service like this? Sure, don't type > your (correct) email address. See my address or from many others to see an [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> Can I make it invalid? >> Thank you I would use a completely fake address including a fake domain. The way you have it configured now means the junk email message is still going to be delivered to the Freeserve mail servers and they have to drop process it and drop it. This wouldn't be really nice to your old ISP. Using a fake domain name will prevent that. SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- > Thank you, I changed my isp a week ago so do not use my old freeserve > address any more. I have changed my address in the newsgroups to the old [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >>> Can I make it invalid? >>> Thank you > In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address. > I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers. > Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way? > Can I make it invalid? > Thank you Munging Email Address http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm > In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email > address. I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by > spammers. Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way? > Can I make it invalid? If you're using Outlook to send the message using Hotmail's server, you can mung the address as recommended by Gordon, although it's not as straight-forward as when using outgoing SMTP, but I've done it. If you're using the Hotmail web interface, I don't know of any way to do it. I see that you included what looks to be your real address in your NNTP account in Outlook Express. You should change that. (Although it's too late now, since you've posted the real address to a public forum and your addresses likely has been harvested already. Once harvested, it will be sold from spammer to spammer ad infinitum.) SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] I did not think of that so I have tried again using a fake address, I now realise that stuff might go to the freeserve address but presume that it will be shut down in a week or so. >> In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email >> address. I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > likely has been harvested already. Once harvested, it will be sold from > spammer to spammer ad infinitum.) Even if your address is dropped at Freeserve, the mail will still be send to Freeserve because they are the only one who can verify if it has actually been dropped or not. With a completely fake address the message will be dropped or returned more quickly to the originating domain. BTW; your current address still holds a valid address (or at least a valid and registered domain). SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- > I did not think of that so I have tried again using a fake address, I now > realise that stuff might go to the freeserve address but presume that it [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> addresses likely has been harvested already. Once harvested, it will be >> sold from spammer to spammer ad infinitum.) Thank you for the advice; I have now made up a completely false address and am using that. However I see that any messages that I post are still showing as "sent items" in my hotmail account. Would I get round this by deleting my newsserver "msnews.microsoft.com" and then reloading with the false name from the start? Thank you > Even if your address is dropped at Freeserve, the mail will still be send > to Freeserve because they are the only one who can verify if it has [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >>> forum and your addresses likely has been harvested already. Once >>> harvested, it will be sold from spammer to spammer ad infinitum.) |
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