Blocking an email

Caoimhín

Hey people,

I use google mail and I want to block my self from sending an email to a certain address. Now, i will let you use your imagination as to why, late at night i want to prevent myself sending an email to this address.

I have the google gadget that makes me do sums to see if i am sober enough (dont usually drink but i had a damn bad night last Saturday and made a fool of myself) but i can get past that too easily.

I want to block me sending to this address completely.

Any help would be great,

Thanks.

Cuddlesworth

Step one, pick up laptop
Step two, drop laptop from a great height.

Komplett: Marc

I know it might sound a bit low-fi but I just remove those addresses from my contact list...

If you have a REALLY good night out, you might forget the address permanently

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

Ah the Auld' drunken Email. I too have fallen victim to this...Several times

The only thing i could do was delete the contact, and all emails from the person and hope that you cant remember the email address off heart. But im sure there probably is some way to do it. Hopefully someone here will let us both know

Caoimhín

Komplett-Tech (Ryan) wrote: »

Ah the Auld' drunken Email. I too have fallen victim to this...Several times

hope that you cant remember the email address off heart. But im sure there peobably is some way to do it. Hopefully someone here will let us both know

There in lies the problem, i dont think i will ever forget the email address.

Cuddlesworth

Caoimhín wrote: »

There in lies the problem, i dont think i will ever forget the email address.

Two words.

"Vegas BABY!!!!!!!!!!!"

Gone Drinking

Install willpower

Sleipnir

Naw you can't block yourself from sending an email to someone. I mean, why would Google implement such a thing.

"Hey, we've got a lot of requests from drunks with no self-control to block them sending emails to ex's sobbing like children, begging for forgiveness and looking for a ride"
"How many requests?"
"8 Million"
"Whoh, that's badly needed then"

Next time you're pissed and thinking about sending an email, read this thread.

Caoimhín

Useful advice there lads.

Any serious answers?

ED E

I need a Java app to lock my phone while drinking. Started texting people at 2:30AM on sat, didnt even remember when I got given out to today.


If you used a mail client you could change your password to an random series, then input it into the mail client. That would limit you to accessing it from there(hide a copy of the pass somewhere you cant get it). Then you could block the ports used by the mail client at certain times. Wouldnt be easy I'd say but should be do-able.

Just leave a large pie near the computer, you'll be asleep before you can get to sending emails.

aidan_walsh

GMails Labs Mail Googles?

Caoimhín

aidan_walsh wrote: »

GMails Labs Mail Googles?

I tried that, the sums are too easy with a calculator at hand...

Anti

system32/calc.exe

Delete that for a start, deatroy your mobile phone, and hope all the alcohol has killed your ability to solve simple maths problems.

Baring that im shit out of ideas.

Cuddlesworth

Anything that you put on the system you will be able to take off. Otherwise its the worst app in the world. And there lies the problem.

Keano

My serious answer hat. Ask a friend you trust and let him change your password every weekend until the urge is gone.

Caoimhín

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Anything that you put on the system you will be able to take off. Otherwise its the worst app in the world. And there lies the problem.

Im not so sure if i follow. Do you mean if i delete something it is gone forever off the PC?

aidan_walsh

Caoimhín wrote: »

Im not so sure if i follow. Do you mean if i delete something it is gone forever off the PC?

No, he means that any preventative measures you put in place you will be able to get around them.

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

Just thinking, with custom rules in outlook could they be taken across to Gmail? But i think as CW said, anything you do put on you can easilly take back off. Sadly i think this is all down to self control

Tallon

Any chance you could get into or get someone to log into "their" account and add you to the deny / blacklist?

I doupt they would notice....

leninbenjamin

Write a greasemonkey script that appends random characters to form input between the hours of 00.00 and 07.00?

Reginald P. DuM

Caoimhín wrote: »

I tried that, the sums are too easy with a calculator at hand...

Interesting thread. It was only the Saturday just passed that I sent a ridiculous drunken message to an ex, thankfully it was ignored and hopefully soon forgotten by all involved. I wasn't aware of this mathematics feature but obviously it's easily by-passed. Simple equations won't stop a determined drunk. Still the point of it is it makes you think twice about sending the message, or at least gives you time to think. Everything for a reason, and even if I'm hammered I will still wonder what the reason for these annoying sums is. Oh yeah, protect me from myself. Result..

Caoimhín

Tallon wrote: »

Any chance you could get into or get someone to log into "their" account and add you to the deny / blacklist?
....

I was just think something like that. Say Friday at 8.30pm until 7.00am, same on Saturday night.
And I mean logging on the laptop entirely, not even letting me log in (no other users...)
Can this be done?

K.

phlegms

This might be a completely crazy idea, but, you could..I dont know..Drink less?

Actually scratch that, thats an awful idea :pac:

Cianos

Send one final email (during the day time) to the person in question politely asking them to add your address to their block list. If they oblige, you know the emails won't be read so you won't bother typing them. If they don't oblige, it'll be more incentive to not email.

edit: Wonder has there ever been a PI/Computers&Tech cross over before :P