Comments on: How do I stop someone from emailing me?

By: anon

anon — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:07:53 +0000

I was told to never use the “bounce” option for spam. 1) most of the addresses are bogus anyway, and 2) It’s basically the same as if you typed a message and said “I don’t want your email”. It also allows the spammer to realize that your address is a valid address, and by responding, they assume you read their email.
What about setting up a simple Rule in mail? ie: IF address is xxx then DELETE message.
Just my two cents.

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:12:32 +0000

Sometimes there are companies that has a problem with unsubscribing you from
lists that you accidentally subscribed to when installing a program or downloaded
some documentation.

You may use a rule and a small applescript to automatically bounce mails selected
by the rule. I may look something like:
on perform_mail_action(theData)
tell application “Mail”
set theSelectedMessages to |SelectedMessages| of theData
repeat with eachMessage in theSelectedMessages
bounce eachMessage
end repeat
end tell
end perform_mail_action

This is not tested, just an example of what it could look like.

/Hans

By: hansi

hansi — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:12:48 +0000

It is obvious that will not work against SPAMMERS. Why? If I send 10.000 SPAM mails an hour, I already get hundred of bounces. Why should I update my mail database?!

Hansi