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  • 31-03-2013 11:23pm
    #1
    CrinkElite
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 890 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks I need a little help here.

    I use yahoo mail myself and they do a great job of dealing with spam but my father is still on an eircom.net email account.

    He is plagued with spam email from a few sources.

    The following is what I get when I look at the properties in outlook.
    Return-Path: <dailydish@yournewsletters.net>
Delivered-To: eircom.net-************@eircom.net
Received: (vpopmail 59019 invoked by uid 16); 30 Mar 2013 09:08:26 +0000
Received: (qmail 59013 messnum 3301062 invoked from network[213.94.190.18/avas04.vendorsvc.cra.dublin.eircom.net]); 30 Mar 2013 09:08:26 -0000
Received: from avas04.vendorsvc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (213.94.190.18)
  by mail16.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 59013) with SMTP; 30 Mar 2013 09:08:26 -0000
Received: from vmta-132.everydayhealth.com ([199.167.32.132])
    by avas04.vendorsvc.cra.dublin.eircom.net with Cloudmark Gateway
    id Hl8C1l0022r2f3b01l8Sne; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:08:26 +0000
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=k1; d=southbeachdiet.com;
 h=From:Date:To:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; i=dailydish@southbeachdiet.com;
 bh=LL2y/+QfrHqcBDUkz9BoRddZPvw=;
 b=RPIhVp5h0RDGlLJP7RW78IA0KJzMnNlCPfa9I7I8Eqbqbeq94d706jtlP7CgYsAGibH9R2MmHjny
   GoXS+CgSnLS4pOzktPOgNSMPZQzr1ImoqSKwwKrXReEaaWlt2GUZ+2Y/zHbDy50v4xTvYRT0mP7J
   YVnkbKY6gsR/9WqEtPQ=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns; s=k1; d=southbeachdiet.com;
 b=ZzR3wmbOwGcra1rrDaf3KhOzpWcTtfS/LHL6qjp0TQUwIMeIvDvJd+8xMZis69iIDXg5nw32SZzC
   f/eRuwJ4RYmJaHuybdqy9Vb937QyFUJsoC68NfuwN+5EoER7eHmafGe8ABsykHBoT4VNtSyPIuLA
   TbTEOiI9CDgk3S9Kqfk=;
    He's added them to the blocklist many times using thee "junk email" feature but it has no effect.

    He also regularly receives email from what appear to be his contacts but they're just spam.

    Is there something I'm missing here or maybe there's some undetected malware on the machine?

    He's running a fully patched Win7(32bit) OS with Microsoft security essentials.

    I can post the details of the other sources if it helps, thanks in advance.


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    #2
    CrinkElite
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 890 ✭✭✭CrinkElite


    I've just found out about outlook's message rule feature, It's clunky but it works hopefully.


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    #3
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Get him to use Mailwasher (the free version is just fine). After a week or two, he'll have the usual suspects (and their domains) blacklisted and all is well. With Mailwasher, they'll be deleted from the server even before they're being downloaded and moved to some junk folder, where they're still eating up disk space.


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    #4
    CrinkElite
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 890 ✭✭✭CrinkElite


    Torqay wrote: »
    they'll be deleted from the server even before they're being downloaded and moved to some junk folder, where they're still eating up disk space.

    Thanks Torgay, Outlook actually has that functionality already so I think I'll see how he gets on with that.


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