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#61
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by Simon - Aug 25, 2025, 12:06:20Apologies, I seem to have given you some wrong information, as I've just noticed it says wildcards (*) don't work. I don't know if that's always been the case and I've never noticed before, or whether it's been changed at some point. Anyway, when you log into the customer portal, you should see your email settings:
Then you click Filters and scroll down to Advanced Filters:
From there you scroll down to Create Custom Rule and set the fields as below, and it should work.
Then you click Filters and scroll down to Advanced Filters:
From there you scroll down to Create Custom Rule and set the fields as below, and it should work.
#62
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by zappaDPJ - Aug 25, 2025, 11:10:23It seems I really don't know what I'm doing. I've tried everything I can think of, even *.* but everything I've tried is completely ignored.
I have managed to redirect everything .cn to Junk locally using Outlook 365 which was easy enough but I've had to admit defeat as far as the customer dashboard is concerned.
I have managed to redirect everything .cn to Junk locally using Outlook 365 which was easy enough but I've had to admit defeat as far as the customer dashboard is concerned.
#63
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by zappaDPJ - Aug 21, 2025, 20:14:22Quote from: nowster on Aug 21, 2025, 16:47:52Running your own mail server is not for the faint hearted these days.
That's probably why my brain shuts down every time I begin to think about it
#64
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by nowster - Aug 21, 2025, 16:47:52Quote from: zappaDPJ on Aug 21, 2025, 13:04:46I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go down that road.
Running your own mail server is not for the faint hearted these days.
#65
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by Simon - Aug 21, 2025, 16:07:38I guess you could do either, or both. I usually just use the From field.
#66
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by zappaDPJ - Aug 21, 2025, 14:49:29So I would leave the header field blank?
#67
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by Simon - Aug 21, 2025, 14:25:29I think you'd enter *.cn in the From field, assuming the .cn is like .com and you wanted to block all .coms. If it's something like joe bloggs @ xyz . cn, then you'd enter *@xyz . cn (without the spaces, again in the From field.
I've had them work either with or without the @ and/or the *, so you can try different combinations until one works.
I've had them work either with or without the @ and/or the *, so you can try different combinations until one works.
#68
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by zappaDPJ - Aug 21, 2025, 13:04:46Quote from: nowster on Aug 20, 2025, 10:10:36For my own personal email server
I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go down that road. I logged into IDNet's webmail, something I very rarely do only to find an entire 24 hours worth of unread emails (251) sitting in Trash.
Quote from: Simon on Aug 19, 2025, 15:24:35Assuming this is an IDNet email, if you log in to the Customer Portal, find the settings for your email, you can create custom filters for just about every imaginable trigger.
Any idea what I would enter as the header to ban .cn? I have no idea what I'm doing here
#69
IDNet Help / Re: OpenReach woes
Last post by nowster - Aug 20, 2025, 17:54:56And it's back. I didn't touch anything here.
Phoning up IDNet to thank them it appears it's likely to have been a "stuck session".
That's a phrase I hadn't heard since when the ISP I was at was providing ADSL using a BT-supplied "home gateway" (ie. LNS) nearly twenty years ago.
Phoning up IDNet to thank them it appears it's likely to have been a "stuck session".
That's a phrase I hadn't heard since when the ISP I was at was providing ADSL using a BT-supplied "home gateway" (ie. LNS) nearly twenty years ago.
#70
Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: Is it possible to reject e...
Last post by nowster - Aug 20, 2025, 10:10:36Theoretically it's possible to cause an email to be rejected when the remote server tries to deliver it, but that also has the potential of causing problems, and it's dangerous for an ISP to offer that facility.
For my own personal email server, the spam classifier software (spamassassin) has to give a very high spamminess score to an email for the mail server (exim4) to reject delivery outright rather than file it in the junk folder.
For my own personal email server, the spam classifier software (spamassassin) has to give a very high spamminess score to an email for the mail server (exim4) to reject delivery outright rather than file it in the junk folder.