Hi Tradeguy,

I delete the contents of the Trash basket at least three times a day. Hundreds and hundreds of spam emails come in daily. 126 recent messages (2 hrs since the last mail download) took over 5 minutes to receive (mostly due to the attached files), and of the 32 that didn't go directly to the Trash (those not fiiltered by Pair.com or by my AW filters), only two were legit.

Similar to your setup, all mail to my ebay-selling address is forwarded through a mailbox at Pair. I've been using the same address and forwarding recipe for about 10 years, but I never had a problem until about nine months ago. Non-spam mail that's delivered to this address also includes Yahoo forum posts, Favorite Searches, and Paypal notifications.

It's been so long since I set up my email at Pair, I'm not sure I could create a new account if my life depended on it. I'm thinking of calling Pair (I think they do phone support now) and asking for a solution.

I used to occasionally get an auto-reply from someone requesting verification, but I found it annoying and seldom acceded to the requests. But maybe BoxTrapper works differently. If you sent a message to an Etsy buyer, for example, they'd be automatically whitelisted?

I remember years ago, my ISP migrated their email routing (might be the wrong term) to gmail servers, and spam to my "regular" email address (using MS Outlook) came to a screeching halt. I don't know of a single mis-identified message, and I no longer even check the webmail trash. This proves it can work. I just don't understand why the problem cropped up so suddenly with mail that goes to my AW address.

I also really wish Thom would consider adding a feature that blocks all messages with attachments. If on the very rare occasion someone needed to send me an attached file, I could temporarily set AW to allow attachments, then re-enable the feature after the file was received. I wonder if that's possible....



Sue
[mostly gave up on eBay]
SecretWorkshop on Etsy