Changing E-mail Addresses...

[ThatAdamGuy]

Since I've been getting an enormous amount of spam at adam@[firstdomain], I decided to make a fresh start... selecting adam@[newdomain] and using that new address only with friends and never posting it in any newsgroup, on any Web page, etc.

 

So far, so good. adam@[otherdomain] has gotten barely a hundredth of the spam the other address gets.

 

Now I'd like to do a full shift to my new address, but I don't want to leave friends behind! Literally hundreds of friends, family members, acquaintances know me by my old address, and so I thought... no problem, I'll just create an autoresponder on my old domain, telling people to please resend their note to my new domain.

 

The problem is, 99% of the mail I'm getting at the old domain is spam with non-existent 'from' addresses. That means that when the autoresponder responds, the mail bounces back to my primary (hosting) POP account... which then requires that I clean out that account on a regular basis!

 

Since I don't use my primary POP account for any real mail, I suppose I could just POP it every hour or two and have my client delete all that mail. But that seems pretty inelegant.

 

Any other (better) ideas for ways in which I could have an autoresponse go out to people who mail me at old addresses? I've actually thought about getting one of those commercial challenge-response programs like qurb, but I only want this to apply to one of my many POP accounts, not everything in my Outlook!

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[TCH-Thomas]

I don´t know how to solve this but I´m moving it for better exposure and organization.

[TCH-Bruce]

Add a forward from your old account to your new account and delete the old account.

 

Of course you are going to get all the spam going to the old account until you quit forwarding.