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Don’t let email spammers verify you

In Email, Thunderbird on 3 June 2009 with 1 comment

Automatically viewing images from specific people in your Thunderbird address book is fine.

But, don’t add your own email address(es) into your address book and check that box. If a spammer ever gets your email address, and you open that email, images displayed inside the email will verify you.

I lasted about a year in minimizing spam. It’s starting to trickle now, but I hope it doesn’t get any worse.

For further information, read “Privacy basics [for] Thunderbird” at mozillaZine.

I know about Gmail. They appear to have the best spam filters¹. If you’re not paranoid about Google seeing everything, they’re the way to go. Do you have your own domain but want Gmail hosting? Look at Google Apps.

Related:

• Switching from Gmail to IMAP in 9 steps
• Spamgourmet
• Train others how to use email
• Email spam (Wikipedia)

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