"Hide" email address

[Larry Kriesmer]

Is there a way to re-set the default email account that
Windows uses when I visit a website? I'd like to use an
email account that I don't check often, so that my
regular email account does not get overrun with spam from
the sites I visit.

Is the email address picke up from Outlook, or from the
Windows registration process?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Not sure what you mean by "that > Windows uses when I visit a website". If
you're talking about clicking on a mailto: link to send mail from a page, it
will use whatever your default mail client/account is set to in Windows. You
can change that as you please.

 

[cato]

I have the same question, but want to clarify the question.

In respect to newsgroups, one can define bogus e-mail accounts in order to
avoid stuffed with spams 95% of malicious mail traffic. This newsgroup is a
hunting ground for hackers, as we all experienced it, unfortunately.

The real question: is it possible to define bogus e-mail address while
responding in a suspicious web page? Or as for many the default mail client
Outlook Express provides the original POP3 account info automatically. That
case the "you can change that as you please" expression needs further
explanation.
Thanks


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"