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Hi,
I set up a no-limit address (by using the hack of setting the address as the exclusive sender).
However, whenever I receive a read-confirmation, the message counter increments.
Could you suggest something to change this annoying behavior ?
Thanks,
Ron.

try putting a dot (period . ) as the exclusive sender. I haven't tried it, but it might work.

Anonymous wrote:try putting a dot (period . ) as the exclusive sender. I haven't tried it, but it might work.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll try it.

Hi Anonymous,

I tried your suggestion:

Anonymous wrote:try putting a dot (period . ) as the exclusive sender. I haven't tried it, but it might work.

and so far so good: works like a charm.

Many thanks,
Ron.

Forgive my ignorance, but whats the point of a no limit address?

RM

I cannot speak for Ron. I would use an infinite limit as an expedient way to administer addresses that I give to senders that I think have a low chance of spamming the address or of giving the address to someone who will spam it.

Say I hand out an address that allows unlimited messages. In the common case, I never have to touch that address again. In the rare case, I am back to the old days -- I get spam. But only until I set the message limit to zero or hide the address.

Imposing no message limit is a bad strategy if the recipient of the address is likely to spam you. For me, the strategy works well for most of the entities I give an email address to.

ttancredi wrote:I cannot speak for Ron. I would use an infinite limit as an expedient way to administer addresses that I give to senders that I think have a low chance of spamming the address or of giving the address to someone who will spam it.

Say I hand out an address that allows unlimited messages. In the common case, I never have to touch that address again. In the rare case, I am back to the old days -- I get spam. But only until I set the message limit to zero or hide the address.

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Couldn't say it better

Ron.