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by notatntt

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A question asked of me that I didn't know.
I work for a school district and the teachers and admin staff will be out for the summer. Would deleting those email accounts for the two months they are out stop spam? The theory is that from multiple bounce backs, the spammer would delete that account's name. I realize that most spam FROM accounts that don't exist.

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by mm212

It would probably slow down the spam, but I think it would be unlikely to STOP it. Good point of deleting the account: They won't have MONTHS of spam built up when they come back to work and it may slow down the spam they receive when they return. Bad point of deleting the accounts: any mail they had saved will now be gone unless you first use .pst files or archive the email in some way.

by pan 13 x

for just 2 or 3 months , will not stop the spammers. if it was 6 maybe. the lists are sold on a daily bases. the only thing you can do really is before they get back. delete all currect emails . this will start them on a clean slate and you can block the spammers domain from your mail server. I have a list of about 2000 spam domains of my deny list right now. I still get some spam but not much.

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