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(See below why MBraedley's solution doesn't work):
This method is kind of a hack but it works. I'm happy about any suggestions how to do this otherwise.
Create a filter with:
Doesn't have: SOME RANDOM CHARACTERS YOU'LL PROBABLY NEVER RECEIVE
Create filter with this search ยป
Check:
โ Forward it to: YOUR EMAIL
โ Never send it to Spam
โ Delete it ...
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Hi, first of all I'd like to share my methodology:
The first step was to find out how these tweets were being posted (e.g. using a Twitter client such as TweetDeck, a third-party service such as Facebook, or directly from the Twitter website). Until recently, this could be done from Twitter itself, but they've recently removed this information from the ...
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It's a common problem, the email addresses are forged (this is easy to do with Internet email) usually the senders of spam choose random "from" addresses constructed from their list of target addresses. The flood should subside after a few days (or weeks).
There is nothing really practical you can do to stop the spammers using your domain name in their ...
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Short answer: You cannot send more than 500 emails in a day from a single Gmail account.
Google will temporarily disable your account if you send messages to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages.
If you access Gmail via POP or IMAP clients (like Microsoft Outlook), you can send an email message to a maximum of ...
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If you're using Chrome (or Chromium, probably), you can use Facebook Filter to block content by keyword. I haven't come upon an equivalent tool for Firefox, though. If you're up for tinkering, of course, you could make your own. ;)
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You say you use Google App Engine API. Does that also mean you've used Apps to buy a domain at some stage? If so, then your transaction went through Checkout, which has now turned into Wallet.
The last time I went into Wallet (to check that my credit card there was still valid, prior to a domain I'd purchased auto-renewing), I was asked to confirm my ...
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RFC2822 says Date: and From: headers are required (section 3.6). It looks like Google will let you get away with just adding a From: header though, e.g.:
[..]
DATA
354 go ahead
From: <account@OurISP.net> <-- add this
Subject: Test email from the Avid ISIS Notification Application This message was generated by Avid ISIS Notification Application.
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I have found the answer here.
Resolution:
In Calendar: Click the gear, select "Settings",
Find the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar" section,
Set its value to "No, only show invitations to which I have responded".
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You can have a virus. The one that sends e-mails. If you have at least one spam e-mail try to track computers that had received it in Received header. If it tracks down to your computer - you are vulnerable.
They can just use your e-mail when sending spam. Nothing you can do unless your mail provider (Yahoo) would use something like DKIM or SPF.
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I'll complement the other answer and say that spams now have an explanation for why they're there. For example, I see sometimes at the top:
Why is this message in Spam? You previously marked messages from spammer@example.com as spam. Learn more
Which links to:
What you need to know:
After you report spam for several messages from the same ...
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Use the Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email (GTUBE). It's a standardized spam signature used precisely for testing spam filters.
Put this in the body of the test email:
XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X
and it will force it to be recognized by Gmail as spam.
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I've been getting the same emails.
Instead of an unsubscribe link, there's this paragraph at the bottom of the email:
You are subscribed as XXX registered on eBay. To change your communication preferences, log into My eBay and select the Account tab, then click on 'Communication Preferences'. Please note that it may take up to 5 business days to process ...
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Microsoft relies on various authentication filters to determine if an email is spam or not.
Common industry practices include reviewing email for the presence of a SPF Validation, Sender ID and DKIM records within email received.
The Sender ID Framework is an e-mail authentication technology protocol that helps address the problem of spoofing and phishing ...
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Unfortunately there is no way to take 2 actions within Gmail. The email that you mark as "Not Spam" is moved from one place to the other, so taking another action means you have to move to the inbox to see the message again.
Thunderbird or other IMAP services might be able to take multiple actions, but I can't comment since I've never used those products.
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The page you link to has a big red button with the following text underneath
Use this button to report spam abuse. This will create a new section/report on the talk page.
Click that button and it takes you to a new page where you can report the spam. You need to one of the specified templates:
{{IP summary|127.0.0.1}} -- to report anonymous editors
...
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Watch for duplicate From: headers or Reply-to: headers that don't match each other. This same problem was experienced by a number of users of Outlook for Mac who had extra header information erroneously migrated from previous mail client accounts. See http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?p=718579
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Not really, no. You are the unfortunate victim of a spammer that's using your email address in the from and/or fail-to fields in the messages that they're sending. I believe it's a way to try to get around anti-spam measures that check to see if the sending address is valid.
I've been the victim of some of these myself, at various times over the years. They ...
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Contacting Tumblr is your best bet for tracking someone down.
That being said, it seems that the general consensus from sources on children's internet safety is that Tumblr is not for children and that there is little that can be done to make it more kid-friendly (it's not as easy to restrict access as, say, Instagram). The ability to message a user ...
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Twitter was hacked it wasn't a spam or scam. Change your password and any password on other sites that match your twitter password, because the perpetrators located somewhere supposedly in China absconded with 250,000 usernames and passwords.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/security/3424069/twitter-hacked-250000-users-must-reset-their-passwords/
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They're probably not "using" your domain to spam. That is, the spam is most likely not coming from the email system for your domain. It is ridiculously easy to send email from any address. The spammers in this case are probably just using yours. I've had it happen to me on my personal email address because I'd receive the same sort of spam messages bounced ...
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Besides the disproportionate ratio of followers to followings already mentioned, I've seen spammy followers show up because their area of work (?) is related to a keyword of my last tweet. I don't tweet often, and I don't have lots of followers, so this is pretty easy to spot manually.
For example, I whine in a tweet about getting CVs that contain "Java ...
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An extreme following > followers ratio. An account that is following hundreds of people, but has only a handful of followers, is in many cases a spam account.
BUT by no means is this a straight indicator, merely a good warning sign to keep an eye out.
Obviously, 'people' you don't know personally sending you very short direct messages with a shortened url ...
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You could use the "FB Purity" browser extension's Custom Text Filter to accomplish this task.
First get FB Purity here: http://fbpurity.com
Then setup a custom text filter.
if the guys name was "joe bloggs"
then you would add a custom text filter of
"Joe Bloggs was tagged in"
though you need to leave the quotes out
and that will filter out any posts ...
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Use the alias as the main e-mail, and filter out the rest.
E.g. if your friend is spamming you on namesurname@, use name.surname@ as your default email (change in your profiles, etc.).
You can also use + sign, like: example+nospam@ to do the similar thing.
See: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12096
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There is SpamFence.
SpamFence offers professional e-mail security with spam filter and
e-mail categorization service and it's free for private use.
How does SpamFence work?
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if the post actually contains the words "9gag.com" anywhere in it, you can filter it out using a browser extension such as "FB Purity" : http://fbpurity.com which is compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. You just need to put the text "9gag.com" into the extension's Custom Text filter.
Of course if the "9gag" text only appears in the image, its ...
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Facebook API gives information about the public groups you are in. This method does it -
https://graph.facebook.com/<user_id>/groups?access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>
It returns the data in following format -
{
"data": [
{
"version": 1,
"name": "The Magnet Link",
"id": "358110224242411",
"unread": 1,
...
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There is no hard-and-fast rule of when it gets added to the blacklist.
SpamCop uses a complicated, intentionally obscure weighting system (details in SpamCop FAQ item "What is on the list?" Briefly (and oversimplifying), your report(s) alone will not result in a spam source to be added to the list, it takes others to report, as well, and the spam reports ...
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if you're a firefox user, there's an add-on called youtube ratings preview. it shows the percentage of ratings on both search results and recommended videos on video page, but not on 'load more suggestions' results.
not the ideal i guess, but it helps.
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