Not Yet Rant

[freyakitten]

It has now been one week and two days since I sent emails to my ISP support asking them to:
a) fix the problem I have with getting other people's emails
b) fix the problem I have with getting emails with attachments containing viruses sent from people who exist only half the time
c) strip all attachments from incoming emails - related to b)
d) fix the problem I have which is, I think, someone else using my email address to send messages like b) from. I found this when a different ISP checked an email ostensibly sent from my address and found that the attachment had a virus, so sent it back to me.

I've received the autoresponder messages telling me that they've received my emails, but since then there has been no response.

The last time I had to ask them something it took two days to reply so they must be very busy. I'll give them another week and then I'll enquire oh so sweetly about the missing response.

Comments

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Well, I entered the filter, now it's downloading my email - lets see how it works. Update in 10 minutes.

Thanks for the help, Lederhosen.

One of the reasons I use Eudora, by the way, (apart from ease of use, and NOT opening attachments automatically) is that it's the email program my ISP distributes as part of their package, so most of their users use a standardised program. It makes it easier for them to answer questions.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

10 minutes, my hat!

Well, filtering for multi/mixed, and it managed to only filter the 'response' messages from LJ telling me about the previous two messages in this thread!

Trying ditto to see how that goes, and if it doesn't work the way I want it, will try further permutations until it either works or I'll ask for more help.

Thanks again, Lederhosen.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Odd, my LJ notifications come through as multi-part/mixed...

Hmm. There is an option for whether you want LJ email to come through as HTML or plain. I've got HTML switched off, so if you've got it switched on that might be the difference.

In that case, you'll need to use "show message source" on the offending messages and look at their content-type header. If it's the same as legitimate messages, things get trickier.

There looks to be some good info on Eudora spam-filtering here, though I'm not in a position to test it for myself.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Yay! Checked the website you suggested and the filter _worked_!

Bounce bounce bounce...