#spam-prevention

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How-to: How to block someone that redirected his email spams to your email address? #solution #programming #answer

How-to: How to block someone that redirected his email spams to your email address? #solution #programming #answer

How to block someone that redirected his email spams to your email address?

I have two friends (yes, belive or not they are my friends) that are redirecting all the email spam they receive to my email address. This makes my Hotmail account receive 30 spams per hour (that are not filtered), so I need to keep erasing them and blocking the sender.

I already blocked their email addresses in the…

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Fixed: How to send messages to spam in Gmail filter? #answer #fix #development

Fixed: How to send messages to spam in Gmail filter? #answer #fix #development

How to send messages to spam in Gmail filter?

Is there a way to create a Gmail filter that sends the filtered items to the spam folder? There is an option to send it to a label, or to “Never send it to Spam” (which is ironic considering what I want to do).

I need this because I’m getting spam emails from a domain called libero.it, and Gmail’s spam filter consistently fails to mark them as spam,…

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Solution: How to Create a CAPTCHA enabled Custom Google Drive Form #fix #development #programming

Solution: How to Create a CAPTCHA enabled Custom Google Drive Form #fix #development #programming

How to Create a CAPTCHA enabled Custom Google Drive Form

I don’t have much knowledge of coding. How can I create Google Form with CAPTCHA to avoid spamming. Any form of CAPTCHA will work.

Answer [by Sathya]: How to Create a CAPTCHA enabled Custom Google Drive Form

You can create your own simple CAPTCHA by inserting a multiple choice question like this:

How much is three plus seven?

( ) Don’t…

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[stackcopybiz]

Resolved: How do I change the default Junk Mail folder in Outlook? #dev #answer #fix

Resolved: How do I change the default Junk Mail folder in Outlook? #dev #answer #fix

How do I change the default Junk Mail folder in Outlook?

I’m using an IMAP mail service (fastmail.fm) which moves Junk email messages to an IMAP folder called “Junk Mail”. Outlook archives Junk to “Junk E-Mail”. How do I change Outlook so that it uses the “Junk Mail” folder for Junk instead of the default?

Answer [by alex]: How do I change the default Junk Mail folder in Outlook?

There’s no way…

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How-to: How to use command line whois for "spam infected" domains like apple.com? #computers #it #answer

How-to: How to use command line whois for "spam infected" domains like apple.com? #computers #it #answer

How to use command line whois for "spam infected" domains like apple.com?

In short: is there any way to get the full whois-details for domains like apple.com, using the command line on Max OS X?

Running whois on the command line for, for example, apple.com is like searching for all domains that include that phrase. So, thanks to whois-spam, this gets one the following on a Mac or on FreeBSD:

$…

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Solution: How can I read spam mail safely in Gmail? #development #fix #solution

Solution: How can I read spam mail safely in Gmail? #development #fix #solution

How can I read spam mail safely in Gmail?

Is there a way to see the spam mail contents in Gmail safely?

Answer [by Traveling Tech Guy]: How can I read spam mail safely in Gmail?

Use an alternate browser than your regular one

Open a private browsing tab or window – all browsers have them (Chrome calls it “Incognito window”, for example)

Browse to your spam folder and view messages – do not…

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Fixed: Is greylisting still an efficient method for preventing spam? #solution #computers #development

Fixed: Is greylisting still an efficient method for preventing spam? #solution #computers #development

Is greylisting still an efficient method for preventing spam?

I’ve used greylisting on my servers for many years, but I don’t know how effective it is nowadays.

Is it still good for fighting spam in 2012?

Or is the typical spammer MTA capable of resending greylisted emails now?

Answer [by Gryphius]: Is greylisting still an efficient method for preventing spam?

spambots usually still don’t do…

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Fix: Spam events appear in my Google Calendar #development #programming #dev

Fix: Spam events appear in my Google Calendar #development #programming #dev

Spam events appear in my Google Calendar

In my Google Calendar, I sometimes find spam events that I never created.

In the screenshot below, you can see that they even managed to put my email address in the “Created by” field.

They are always in the past.

I could not find much information about this problem. This Google support tip tells me to click “Report spam”, but there is no such link.

I…

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