Blocking A Single E-mail Address

[lilirose]

I seem to attract weirdos, for some reason.

 

A polite debate with someone via e-mail has degenerated into a flame war- or, to be more precise, they are flaming me, despite the fact that I've done my best to remain polite.

 

So anyway...my question. Is there a way to block this person's e-mail address at the server level, so that when they e-mail me again, their mail will either be bounced or deleted from the server without me having to look at it?

 

I know I can do this within my e-mail program using filters... I don't really want to use that method, because that will just put the e-mail into my "trash" folder, and I know I won't be able to resist looking for it, reading it, and getting extremely upset over the whole situation once again. I know that's silly, and I should have more strength of will than that, but I don't. So please try to forgive me for that and help me out anyway.

 

I just want to figure out a way to stop e-mails from this person from ever making it onto my computer at all. So...is there any way to permanently blacklist someone's e-mail address at the server level?

[TCH-Bruce]

If you are using Spam Assassin you can blacklist the email address.

 

See this help page for info on Spam Assassin.

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/id60.htm

[lilirose]

Thanks so much for your quick response, Bruce.

 

I am using Spam Assassin, but the way I have it configured right now, it delivers all the messages tagged as spam to my e-mail program, where I use a filter to put them into a junk-mail folder, so I can check them and make sure that none of them were tagged by mistake (it does happen occasionally). So that would be no better than simply setting up a filter to auto-trash this person's mail.

 

Is there a better way?

 

Again, I appreciate your help so much!

[TCH-Thomas]

Hi lilirose,

The blacklist_from on the page Bruce refers to, should work with what you want to do.

[TCH-Bruce]

Yes, as Thomas says it should work correctly. Go into the Spam Assassin configuration. You will see white-list and black-list boxes. If you enter the address into one of the black-list boxes it will discard any email from that address.

 

Conversely, if you add an address to a white-list box spam assassin will not capture any mail from that address as spam whether it is or not.

[annie]

But what about E-mail filtering in cpanel?

Edited February 23, 2005 by annie