AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from
addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can
it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

Richard

On 2007-07-20, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from
> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or
> can it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?
>
> Richard

As far as I know, neither GMail nor Yahoo Mail provide a
straightforward way to only accept messages which are purportedly
from senders in your address book. However, this is not a widely
accepted method of blocking spam because (1) the From: header is
easy to forge, and (2) what if someone new wants to send you an
email?

What GMail and Yahoo *do* support are two effective and flexible
means of recognizing non-spam messages, Sender Policy Framework and
DomainKeys/DKIM. You can read about them here:

http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
http://www.openspf.org/Introduction

Since you're asking about Yahoo in comparison with AOL, I take it
that you're considering switching email service providers. In that
case, I highly recommend GMail -- it's very good all around, and its
spam filter is top notch (which would make sense, come to think of
it; filtering spam does fit within the company's core competency of
organizing information).

--
Mark Shroyer
http://markshroyer.com/

On 2007-07-20, Mark Shroyer <usenet-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Since you're asking about Yahoo in comparison with AOL, I take it
> that you're considering switching email service providers. In that
> case, I highly recommend GMail -- it's very good all around, and its
> spam filter is top notch (which would make sense, come to think of
> it; filtering spam does fit within the company's core competency of
> organizing information).

And now I notice that you posted the original message from a Google
account, making this entire paragraph superfluous

--
Mark Shroyer
http://markshroyer.com/

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from
>addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can
>it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

Most email providers and POP3/SMTP email clients have mail filtering
capabilities. White lists, black lists, keyword or expressing
scanning, even Bayesian filtering are very widespread.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
(E-Mail Removed)
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from
> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can
> it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

gmail by default does quite a good job at stopping spam by defrault.

--
http://www.bootdisk.com/

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from
> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can
> it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

ps an account at email.com has been working quite well for me also. They
seem to hate/block spam very well also.

Plato wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from
>> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can
>> it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?
>
> gmail by default does quite a good job at stopping spam by defrault.
>
Too bad they don't block the spam their users send out. I see more spam
with gmail addresses than from anywhere else.
Allen