I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

You or your wife's email address was in the Bcc field.
The only way to not get the email is to create a message rule, Where the
email is from 'specific' address, Delete from server (or move to a spam
folder and stop processing more rules). You have to add everyone in your
Address Book to the rule.
Any new addresses will have to be added to the rule.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

I'll risk showing my ignorance but I have to ask if "adding everyone in your
Address Book to a rule" that deletes the message from the server is what you
really are recommending. Won't that delete all emails from anyone in their
Address Book? That’s a little drastic to get rid of spam. Surely I must be
misinterpreting this posting. Help me see what I am missing.

Thanks,

Tom


"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
You or your wife's email address was in the Bcc field.
The only way to not get the email is to create a message rule, Where the
email is from 'specific' address, Delete from server (or move to a spam
folder and stop processing more rules). You have to add everyone in your
Address Book to the rule.
Any new addresses will have to be added to the rule.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

I missed one important step. :-(
The rule needs to be changed to if it is not from address1 or address2, or
address3...............Delete or move to a folder.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Tom Brown" wrote in message
...
I'll risk showing my ignorance but I have to ask if "adding everyone in
your
Address Book to a rule" that deletes the message from the server is what
you
really are recommending. Won't that delete all emails from anyone in
their
Address Book? That’s a little drastic to get rid of spam. Surely I must
be misinterpreting this posting. Help me see what I am missing.

Thanks,

Tom


"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
You or your wife's email address was in the Bcc field.
The only way to not get the email is to create a message rule, Where the
email is from 'specific' address, Delete from server (or move to a spam
folder and stop processing more rules). You have to add everyone in your
Address Book to the rule.
Any new addresses will have to be added to the rule.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

You can't stop the message from being sent to you. You can filter some
of them out.

http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm

Also check with your mail service. You may be able to do some spam
filtering there.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:20:01 -0800, Jennifer wrote:

I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?

There is nothing that you can do, other than normal filtering. Email works
by identifying the recipient in an SMTP command called, "RCPT TO:". There
are ways to suppress the display of that email address; called, "BCC:".
Gateway SMTP servers aren't required to record the "RCPT TO:" email address
(though some do, using a special "X" header line).

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum