Any Pitfalls when using Gmail?
 

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:13:43 -0600, "Vanguard"
wrote:

|Instead I use e-mail aliases. Right now I use Sneakemail. They have free
|accounts where you can define an unlimited number of e-mail aliases. The
|free accounts have lower quota (size of message, how many bytes per month)
|than the paid accounts but then I don't get much traffic through the
|aliases. If an alias starts to get spammed, I kill it and that traffic is
|zero thereafter. Because the alias was created and divulged only to one
|recipient, I know exactly who betrayed me. For example, if you want to
|download demo videos of games from Gamespot.com, you need to provide a valid
|e-mail address. Aliases are valid e-mail addresses so you will get their
|confirmation e-mail to complete the registration process. Everytime that I
|have opened an account at Gamespot.com, spam starts coming after around 3
|days. Although CNet control Gamespot, I haven't had a problem with aliases
|divulged to CNet when, for example, wanting to submit a user review of
|software available at their download.com site. So it is Gamespot alone at
|CNet that is farking over its users. You don't even have to kill the alias.
|You could just disable it. You can configure it to automatically delete any
|mails delivered to it (so the sender doesn't get a rejection). If you use a
|simple forwarding service to hide your e-mail address, any reply to a
|forwarded message will go through your own mail server and not back through
|the forwarding service (i.e., they forward to you but do not provide SMTP
|service that specifically goes through your alias account). Any mails sent
|through a Sneakemail account have the headers setup so on a reply your
|message goes back through their server, all headers get stripped so only
|their headers are in the delivered mail, and it looks like it came from your
|account at Sneakemail.
I have free accounts at Mailshell (tested beta vers
but dont create any new addys) & SpamGourmet.com which
call themselves disposable but act like aliases as u
describe above. I do assign a new addy to each
recipient altho u dont have to so I know who spammed
me. I do remove myself b4 letting an addy expire.

I'll look at Sneakemail & compare to to 2 above. TY 4
tip.

1 of the 1st addys to get spammed was not an alias but
a 'base' RR addy that I swear only RR & Computer
Assoc(EZ AV) had. Bummer. Luckely creating a new RR
addy & redirecting all aliases there is fairly easy.

So I like aliases,aks's or whatever the proper
terminology is alot.

Thanks- bye- Larry

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

Any Pitfalls when using Gmail?
 

"Larry(LJL269)" wrote in message
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I have free accounts at Mailshell (tested beta vers
but dont create any new addys) & SpamGourmet.com which
call themselves disposable but act like aliases as u
describe above. I do assign a new addy to each
recipient altho u dont have to so I know who spammed
me. I do remove myself b4 letting an addy expire.

I'll look at Sneakemail & compare to to 2 above. TY 4
tip.

I didn't see any free e-mail alias service at mailshell.com. Didn't see
anything about e-mail aliases but just anti-spam stuff. What does
mailshell.com offer that is actually free?

SpamGourmet.com uses the concept of adding a string to your username as
though that constitutes hiding your e-mail address. You divulge an e-mail
address like:



where someword is a random string and x is the number of times it can be
used. Otherwise, the rest of it is just like defining a disposable webmail
account anywhere else. I saw no mention of how they protect you when you
reply to a mail sent through their alias. It seems a one-way service: they
hide the destination e-mail address but only for inbound mails. If you
reply to a message that came through their alias, you are still sending that
reply through your own mail server, not theirs. When replying to mails
received through a Sneakemail alias, yes, they will go through your mail
server but the destination for that reply is to Sneakemail which then strips
out all the headers and adds Sneakemail-only headers so your mail looks like
it originated from there. Services that hide you only for inbound mails are
nothing more than forwarding services, like Bigfoot.com. They don't accept
any e-mails from you, including any replies you make to those mails received
through an alias or forwarding account.

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Any Pitfalls when using Gmail?
 

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 01:39:35 -0600, "Vanguard"
wrote:

|I didn't see any free e-mail alias service at mailshell.com. Didn't see
|anything about e-mail aliases but just anti-spam stuff. What does
|mailshell.com offer that is actually free?
Only free 4 beta testers like me but I dont have
all capabilities of paid version.
|
|SpamGourmet.com uses the concept of adding a string to your username as
|though that constitutes hiding your e-mail address. You divulge an e-mail
|address like:
|
|
|
|where someword is a random string and x is the number of times it can be
|used. Otherwise, the rest of it is just like defining a disposable webmail
|account anywhere else. I saw no mention of how they protect you when you
|reply to a mail sent through their alias. It seems a one-way service: they
|hide the destination e-mail address but only for inbound mails. If you
|reply to a message that came through their alias, you are still sending that
|reply through your own mail server, not theirs. When replying to mails
|received through a Sneakemail alias, yes, they will go through your mail
|server but the destination for that reply is to Sneakemail which then strips
|out all the headers and adds Sneakemail-only headers so your mail looks like
|it originated from there. Services that hide you only for inbound mails are
|nothing more than forwarding services, like Bigfoot.com. They don't accept
|any e-mails from you, including any replies you make to those mails received
|through an alias or forwarding account.
Any email sent from RR addy using OE 1st goes to
Mailshell or Spamgourment server & has no mention of my
RR addy in header when the recipient gets them. Both
have ways of blocking addys composed by anyone but me.
I looked at Sneakemail briefly & thought it would
be time consuming to have to go to their site every
time I need a new addy. Both of mine require me to do
that only if I an sending the very 1st email for a new
addy- like when I click mail-to link.
I use Gmail to send email to TS addy's from
existing Mailshell addys cause u cant send attachments
from email composed at Mailshell (it does forward them
tho).
I think any of 3 does better job with spam than
any filtering can but can be challenging for some to
use.
Bye- Larry

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.