IP Address block on email?

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This this is the best place to post this, I am about to switch to the new 2013 NIS and I was wondoring if it was possible to block ip addresses to filter out the spam (been getting a lot of new spam which has been going around the Norton Antispam).

 

If it is possible, how do you do it?

 

Windows XP

Outlook Express 6

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Welcome,

NIS blocks names but not IP addresses. Are you using an email client [outlook, thunderbird] or a web based service [gmail, etc.]?

I use the filter on the web based service to screen out most of the trash and the filter in outlook to do the rest of the job. That leaves NIS with those pieces of spam and other unusual trash to trap and dump. So far the system seems to be working well.

Keep us posted

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It wouldn't work because the email is not coming directly from the spammer to you.

They are first going to your ISP, or gmail, or another service.  Only they could block by IP.

By the time you get them they are coming from the IP address of the mail provider and not the spammer.

 

Dave

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thanks for the input but I thought that an IP block would look for the IP address in the source code? It provides a series of IP numbers coming from the source of the e-mail through to the ISP.

 

In any case the spam seems to be completely random from location to e-mail domains, the best I can do is a series of rules based on the vulgar meanings in the message body, for a time however most of them came from Southern US and Russia.

 

Norton does its best to screen any spam but this is really difficult to get its head around how to block these new ones.

 

Also I use Outlook and the e-mail I use is not a free one, it comes with my ISP.

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By the time you get the mail, the IP addresses of the origin is just numbers in the source code.

You can't block something by that.

 

You said in your first post your using XP with Outlook Express.

I also have the same setup on my main system.

 

When I get "new" types of spam that slip though Norton Anti-Spam, I select it and click "this is spam".

From then on, Norton will pick up all similar spam and it's very rare for me to get spam now that is not detected by Anti-Spam.

If you select "this is spam" on something, let it send a copy to Norton and it helps improve the spam filter.

 

Dave