Is Anyone Else Buried in Chinese Spam

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Is Anyone Else Buried in Chinese Spam

Every few minutes for the last 2 days I've been getting an email lebeled "printing project" from a Chinese firm selling printing services. Hundreds per day. It feels like a virus. They do go to my Junk folder, but they are clogging up my mailbox. I've sent most of them to spam.me but, so far, nothing has changed. I do subscribe to mobile me and, otherwise, the "Junk" system is working for me. Is there any way to block these emails from reaching my mac mail?

macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Jan 17, 2010 5:42 AM

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Answer 1

Barney-15E

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Jan 17, 2010 5:56 AM in response to bob-lo

I think some of those things run in spurts.
Is it all coming from the same domain, or is it random email addresses?

Most email providers can blacklist a domain if it is sending out spam, but if it is just coming from the multitude of Windows SpamBots, then there isn't much you can do besides what you've already tried.

Does MobileMe have a server-side anti-spam service where you can have the server flag the email and not push it to you?

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thomas_r.

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Jan 17, 2010 6:09 AM in response to bob-lo

You could enable junk mail filtering on MobileMe. I've never done it, as I prefer not to manage multiple different spam handling systems, but it does exist. Click the little gear button when logged in to the MobileMe web mail interface, select Preferences from the menu that appears, then look for the junk mail option (I forget which tab it's under).

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bob-lo Author

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Jan 17, 2010 12:30 PM in response to thomas_r.

Junk mail filtering is enabled but all that does is send the spam to my junk folder which is now clogged with 85 messages from this source and are still coing in.

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bob-lo Author

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Jan 17, 2010 12:34 PM in response to Barney-15E

I believe it's all coming from the same two domains and I'm hoping spam@me.com will be willing and able to block it. I don't know about whether MobileMe can flag abd block these emails but I'll contact them and ask. Thanks.

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