Reduce Spam by using alternative Google Mail Address?
I read about this tip yesterday on the Digital Inspiration and found it quite interesting. The tip mainly states that users who sign up for Gmail don't get one but two mail addresses: [email protected] and [email protected]. The suggestion was to give one out to friends and use the other for all the other signups and conversations on the Internet.
It might seem like a solid trick unless you think about it for a second. If you know that there are two email addresses on those two Google domains that lead to the same user, the spammer could know as well and most likely will.
So, even though you use one email for private matters and the other for everything else, Mr. Spammer will simply add a script that sends mails to both Google accounts automatically.
The only real way that works in my opinion are separate email accounts with no connection whatsoever. Using one account with those two email addresses will simply not reduce the amount of spam that you receive.
Update: While it is still possible to use either email address when you sign up on the Internet, you may have noticed that sending always uses the gmail.com email address. You need to keep that in mind if you sign up for a service that you need to reply to, or when you contact the service by email.
An alternative are email aliases which you can make use of as well. This is done by appending +name to the user name of the email address. If your email address is [email protected], you can use any [email protected] combination. Emails will still arrive at the [email protected] address. The method still has its issues, as spammers can simply derive the original email address from that as well (by removing the+alias part from the email address that you have used.
So, it is definitely best to use separate email accounts that have no connection to each other, as spammers won't be able to draw a connection between the two this way.
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!