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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 11:27 am, Kai Hendry wrote:
As I am trying to get my parents to switch painlessly to another email address, I would like BT to setup a forward to the new email. I have emailed bti support and as usual no reply.
I'm considering a similar thing - the resurrection of an old email address that has been spammed to death. I want to re-direct to a linux box (possibly via fetchmail), run SpamAssassin and find the 1 in 4,000 non-spam messages. There's no way that the old freebie ISP is going to co-operate. I've left the account the requisite 90 days without connecting (and then some) but, as expected, the account has not been deleted. (Instead it had collected >2,000 spam messages - something that should have at least raised an alert with the ISP!)
Wouldn't it be great if all our "old" email addresses, pointed to the current email we use?
Something that Linux should be ideally positioned to create, at least for some users.
I think companies use this as an evil ploy to stick with their services.
Of course.
It is frankly anti-competitive, is it not? Should there not be legislation to protect consumers from this behaviour?
Should, but this is the internet - it's not covered specifically by ANY legislation, it's a hotch-potch of laws laid down when only paper documents existed.
Well, I thought so. And I emailed oftel. And I think I got a stupid reponse really.
Not that bad, it really isn't part of Oftel's remit. It's not really part of any watchdog's remit, that's why Microsoft get away with being so controlling and anti-competitive. After trying to email Theo off-list, it's certainly possible. Works on the basis of deny-all - similar to the best firewalls. All emails from unrecognised addresses get bounced with a corresponding explanatory email. This requires full control over the mail queue - hence the idea of fetchmail. Theo - would that work? Would there be security problems with running fetchmail alongside your scripts, perhaps once daily? Does anyone else know much about SpamAssassin - is it Perl? - -- Neil Williams ========== www.codehelp.co.uk www.dclug.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JKEQk7DVr6iX/QIRAuAWAKCL/BHOJKfW/+DPcjH4pmz+FhrapQCfQGzx HJh5gJO+UeyZn4SLTTlFP+s= =B5CD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.