Yes, I am an idiot
Urgent plea: if you sent me an email today and it bounced as an unknown address, please could you try again?
Suffice to say rumours of the death of the me@beckysweb address have been greatly exaggerated. :-S
What happened?
Er...
...kinda embarrassing...
My email used to be set up so anything that was sent to an address at the "beckysweb.co.uk" domain would get forwarded on to my Google email address. I found it really handy to be able to quote various email addresses to different companies and stuff.
Just recently though, more and more spammers seem to be using the technique of hitting every address that might possibly exist at an organisation. So they'll pick a known web domain name (like beckysweb.co.uk) and email "contact@", "sales@", "dave@" and so on.
Which of course, were all getting forwarded on to my central email account.
Gmail did a pretty good job of weeding it out into the Junkmail folder, but I used to like occasionally scanning through for possible non-junk items. When you're getting 100+ spam mails a day that gets to be a real chore!
So, I decided not to forward all the mail sent to beckysweb.co.uk on to my main email account, and just forward on the main ones I used. The rest would get bounced.
This meant going into my email admin at lunchtime, and explictly adding the addresses I wanted forwarded. Didn't take as long as I'd thought it would. I checked later in the afternoon and spam had dropped down to acceptable levels. Job's a good 'un!
Er, except I'd forgotten to add "me" to the list of allowed address. My main email address. Er. Whoops.
I thought some people had been quiet today! :-)
Suffice to say rumours of the death of the me@beckysweb address have been greatly exaggerated. :-S
What happened?
Er...
...kinda embarrassing...
My email used to be set up so anything that was sent to an address at the "beckysweb.co.uk" domain would get forwarded on to my Google email address. I found it really handy to be able to quote various email addresses to different companies and stuff.
Just recently though, more and more spammers seem to be using the technique of hitting every address that might possibly exist at an organisation. So they'll pick a known web domain name (like beckysweb.co.uk) and email "contact@", "sales@", "dave@" and so on.
Which of course, were all getting forwarded on to my central email account.
Gmail did a pretty good job of weeding it out into the Junkmail folder, but I used to like occasionally scanning through for possible non-junk items. When you're getting 100+ spam mails a day that gets to be a real chore!
So, I decided not to forward all the mail sent to beckysweb.co.uk on to my main email account, and just forward on the main ones I used. The rest would get bounced.
This meant going into my email admin at lunchtime, and explictly adding the addresses I wanted forwarded. Didn't take as long as I'd thought it would. I checked later in the afternoon and spam had dropped down to acceptable levels. Job's a good 'un!
Er, except I'd forgotten to add "me" to the list of allowed address. My main email address. Er. Whoops.
I thought some people had been quiet today! :-)
You can even do beckyenverite+microsoft@gmail and you'll get it.
"I'm sorry I can't do that, Dave."
No, I'm an idiot: what's your excuse?
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