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New Contributor II
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Email bouncing
I have blocked one email address but would like to automatically send them a message back saying it was blocked. Is this possible?
EdwardH
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New Contributor II
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Edward, I am referring to the settings and controls that Cox has on the webmail site. I have one email address blocked because that person is a pain in the you know what. However they continue to send argumentative messages and they do not know that I generally do not read them and they are blocked. This person gets their joy from disagreements and voicing a negative message. I have told them that I have blocked them a couple of years ago, but they think I am just ignoring their messages. It would be nice to have a system where Cox would return their message indicating that it has been blocked.
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Health_Edge
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Valued Contributor III
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I don't think you can set up a reply rule with a block rule, but you could just forward rule along with a reply, and then just forward the email to a invalid email, like test@xoc.com
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New Contributor II
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I guess I don't understand your response Health Edge.
"but you could just forward rule along with a reply, and then just forward the email to a invalid email, like test@xoc.com"
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Health_Edge
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Valued Contributor III
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Sorry it wasn't very clear. I typed it fast while having some coffee. :-)
I thought you could forward email and send reply message via Webmail > Settings > Message Filters, but I guess it's not possible. You could do it as a vacation message, but that would effect all incoming, not just one specific email. Sorry for the confusion.
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ChrisL
Former Moderator
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I'd urge restraint with regards to setting up any sort of rule to auto-forward to a black hole email address. Sending lots of email to invalid addresses will get you flagged as being a spammer thus you'll create a bigger problem for yourself than the one you originally started with.
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Health_Edge
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Valued Contributor III
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I was just suggesting it as a work around. I don't have the problem myself.
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ChrisL
Former Moderator
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Indeed the logic as a workaround is sound however one statistic spam blockers look at is the number of attempts to send email to an unknown/invalid email address. Should you cross that threshold all of your outgoing email ends up in Charlie Brown's spam eating tree.
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Health_Edge
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Valued Contributor III
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Your right. I guess the only solution is to use Gmail or some other client with more options. Thats the main reason I don't have the problem. Cox email looks to be having all kinds of issues these days.
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New Contributor II
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What I ended up doing ( a bit of work however) was to reply using a from "Postmaster" email address claiming the message was blocked.
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