Reject unwanted email

[Alan-W]

How can I reject emails friom certain addresses such that the sender receives a notification that the mail has been rejected?

What does reject with reason do?

[Ady-TalkTalk]

No you don't. If I could have answered faster I would have, in fact the only reason I didn't post back sooner is that I thought I'd have an answer sooner.

Ady

[Alan-W]

Thanks for that Ady. I must learn to be more patient!

[Ady-TalkTalk]

Hi Alan-W, I've no idea if it even works so I've been waiting on the team at OpenXchange to confirm if it does and what it does. I've sent a chaser this morning as you've reminded me. Sorry for the delay in getting you an answer on this.

Ady

[Alan-W]

Hi Ady-TalkTalk

Well, am I to assume you don't understand my question, you don't know the answer to my question or have you just got bored with talking to me?

[Alan-W]

Go to settings, all settings, mail, rules, add new rule, add action :-

I have set filters to reject mails (scams) with certian strings in the header. The mails are rejected but what does 'reject with reason' actually do?

Also mail which goes to the spam folder bypasses the filters. Can I get rid of the spam folder so all mail goes to my inbox?

[Ady-TalkTalk]

I don't have that option in my test accounts. Could you provide a screenshot without the personal information please. 

Ady

[Alan-W]

Yes Ady, in TalkTalk Webmail.

[Ady-TalkTalk]

In TalkTalk webmail?

Ady

[Alan-W]

Hi Ady

In mail settings - Rules (for handling incoming mails). After specifying coditions there is an action option - Reject with reason, and a text box opens.

I set a rule to reject wth reason all emails from my gmail address. The mail sent from here was rejected but the text was seemingly ignored and no notification was sent back to my gmail address.

So, is the text box relevant in any way?

[Ady-TalkTalk]

Hi Alan-W, where are you seeing reject with reason?

Ady

[Billx]

Hi, @Alan-W 

I wanted to achieve the same.

To automatically respond to a particular sender, and to give the sender a reason why I am rejecting his emails.

I similarly thought, that that command 'Reject with reason' might be the one to use.

However there is no way of knowing, as there appears to be no documentation.

In that command, there is just one empty text box. Would that be, where I, as the rejector, types the reason for the rejection?

Bill