Someone who has my email address in their address book was infected by a virus today and spewed out tons of emails to me with virus’s attached. Not really a big deal as my virus scanner scans all incoming email attachments, and if it detects a virus it deletes the attachment while allowing the email to be received.
But, it’s a pain to have to delete all the emails as they fill my inbox. If you are using a POP3 email address, have access to your cPanel and have SpamAssassin installed it’s pretty easy to stop the offending email at the server level.
First locate the offenders IP address from the headers in one of the emails. Next log into cPanel and go to MAIL and then E-mail Filtering. Add $message_headers contains “IPADDRESS”. Now all email from a particular IP address will be blocked before it ever gets to your inbox.
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