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Originally the "Tech Support Pits" were reports of the funniest tech support incidents, but over the years the
column gradually shifted to answering tech support questions put forward by the readers of the Dear
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This collection of computer and web advice was started partly because readers demanded an archive, and partly
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Tech Support Pits column from Dear Webby's Humor Letter of
05/29/05: How to block mail from an ex
Tech Support Pits:
From Glennis===
Dear Webby,
I can't change my email address because of my business,
but I need to block mail from my ex. His mails are polite
and friendly, not of a harassing type, but I just don't want
any more mail from him. He forges different sender
addresses, so it's not easy to avoid his mails.
What do you suggest?
Glennis
Dear Glennis
Just get MailWasher, the Pro version, from the left side
menu. Then look at a few of his mails and find something
that is common to all of them. With MailWasher you can
easily peek at the hidden header stuff, and even if you
don't find anything common in the message body, you
will easily find something that shows up in all of his letters,
but not in legitimate mail.
Then make a filter that is triggered by that. Making filters
is childishly easy with MailWasher Pro, even fun.
Set the filter to delete his mails automatically, without
showing them, and you won't ever see them again.
With the filters you can have them triggered by many
different items. If any of ten different traps recognizes
him, his mail gets nuked.
To fine tune your filter, you can set it so that it just
flags his mail for deletion. That way, if somebody else
also uses one of the trigger phrases, you can modify
the filter.
Have FUN!
Dear Webby
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