Please give us a default option NOT to post email addresses onnewsgroups!!

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Bill Weylock

Ouch!!

In many years of web experience I do not think I have ever before today
posted my real email address on a public newsgroup.

It did not occur to me to check, but of course Entourage helpfully did that
for me. This is the first time I have seriously tried to use a combination
email and newsgroup program. I decided to try Entourage instead of my trusty
(paid) Eudora. All the dedicated newsreaders I have used give a clear option
to withhold an email address or fake one and warn about security on
newsgroups.

Why doesn¹t Entourage?? So far I can¹t see any way to do it manually. I¹ve
tried editing the address book several times, and nothing seems to work.

Admittedly my security has to be my responsibility, and I am experienced
enough that I should have thought of it, but Entourage should invite me to
think about it instead of just helping me paint a great big bulls eye on an
address that up to today has received very little spam.

I¹m sure that¹s going to change right away. Really annoying. Infuriating
might be a better word.

OK. Since I¹ve now done it (with a domain that I have guarded like a tiger),
could some of you guys please tell me how you spoof your own email addresses
for news posting and still keep a valid ReplyTo address for email in
Entourage?

Thanks.
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

Ouch!!

In many years of web experience I do not think I have ever before today posted
my real email address on a public newsgroup.

It did not occur to me to check, but of course Entourage helpfully did that
for me. This is the first time I have seriously tried to use a combination
email and newsgroup program. I decided to try Entourage instead of my trusty
(paid) Eudora. All the dedicated newsreaders I have used give a clear option
to withhold an email address or fake one and warn about security on
newsgroups.

Why doesn¹t Entourage?? So far I can¹t see any way to do it manually. I¹ve
tried editing the address book several times, and nothing seems to work.

Admittedly my security has to be my responsibility, and I am experienced
enough that I should have thought of it, but Entourage should invite me to
think about it instead of just helping me paint a great big bulls eye on an
address that up to today has received very little spam.

I¹m sure that¹s going to change right away. Really annoying. Infuriating might
be a better word.

OK. Since I¹ve now done it (with a domain that I have guarded like a tiger),
could some of you guys please tell me how you spoof your own email addresses
for news posting and still keep a valid ReplyTo address for email in
Entourage?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

1. Go to Tools/Accounts/Mail/New and make a new POP account to which you
provide a) a fake email address, b) your real Name c) NO receiving POP
server address, d) the same SMTP (sending) server address as your real POP
or IMAP account, with same settings. Give the account a distinctive name.
Save, and ignore warning about no POP server.
2. Go to Tools/Accounts/News/Microsoft News Server. Change the E-mail
account popup from your real POP or IMAP account name to the new SMTP-only
account you just made.

That's it.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
G

Gnarlodious

Entity Bill Weylock spoke thus:
Entourage should invite me to
think about it instead of just helping me paint a great big bulls eye on an
address that up to today has received very little spam.
Click to expand...
It's worse than that, when I imported all my settings from the previous
version Entourage automatically gave me my default email address to my
Usenet accounts. Read my post of 5/22.

in the previous version I was nicely set up with a spoofed spambox address
so imagine my horror when I saw my real email address in my first post from
Entourage 2004!
I¹m sure that¹s going to change right away. Really annoying. Infuriating might
be a better word.
Click to expand...
A serious security breach is what I would call it.
OK. Since I¹ve now done it (with a domain that I have guarded like a tiger),
could some of you guys please tell me how you spoof your own email addresses
for news posting and still keep a valid ReplyTo address for email in
Click to expand...
I keep a spamtrap address at Yahoo I check once a day but even so I munge it
for Usenet so people can still write to me if they hack the string.

But you can always direct them to your website which is robotproofed.

-- Gnarlie
http://www.Gnarlodious.com
 
B

Bill Weylock

Hope you noticed that Paul gave me an answer to this.

Still should be a default instead of a fairly laborious option.
 
M

Mickey Stevens

You need to first set up an e-mail account in Tools -> Accounts that has a
fake e-mail address (be sure not to add it to your Send & Receive All
schedule). Then, you can open your news account and set it to use the
e-mail account with the invalid address.

I agree that Entourage should have a warning when a new account is created.
Be sure to send your feedback to Microsoft. In Entourage X or 2004, go to
Help -> Send Feedback on Entourage. Otherwise, click on this direct link to
enter Mac Product Feedback:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/feedback/suggestion.asp>
 
S

Sherman Wilcox

Go to Tools/Accounts/Mail/New and make a new POP account to which you provide
a) a fake email address, b) your real Name c) NO receiving POP server
address, d) the same SMTP (sending) server address as your real POP or IMAP
account, with same settings. Give the account a distinctive name. Save, and
ignore warning about no POP server.
Go to Tools/Accounts/News/Microsoft News Server. Change the E-mail account
popup from your real POP or IMAP account name to the new SMTP-only account you
just made.
Click to expand...

Thanks for this information, Paul.
 
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