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cvn-tv-dip	May 19 2009, 12:03 AM
Retired Soliloquist Posts: 2,928 Group: Members Member #54,295 Joined: May 14, 2005 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	Quote: Why not just no longer log into that account to check email? Change your settings to whitelist only if they provide it. That's more or less what I think I would do. Basically, I want to close my hotmail account because I'm getting about 20 spam a day, and it's just a lot of unnecessary mail. I have a Gmail account that is about half old that I would rather use. If you mail something to an unrecognized/nonexistent address, it bounces back with a "Delivery Failure" notice. I've noticed that if you try to reply to a spammer, it bounces back like that. That's the kind of effect I want to achieve, so it's clear to the sender that the account is no longer in use. I guess having the away message on and not logging in is the best option, even though it feels like it's incomplete. Even if I whitelist it, all the mail would go to the junk, and the away message would actually not be sent to senders whose mail are junked. Edit: I tested out what Will suggested and it seemed to work. But the Delivery Failure notice shows not my hotmail account, but the made-up address. And it doesn't show the away message because it's a direct forwarding that skips my hotmail account. So it's a toss-up: should I enable forwarding or the away message? Edit: Actually, I decided to forward all mail to this address: <e-mail account>-at-hotmail.com-address-is-no-longer-taking-email-please-contact-using-other-ways@hotmail.com Edited by cvn-tv-dip, May 19 2009, 06:49 AM.


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