Block Country - Spam from Russia

{Austin is from Ireland and his initials are in the avatar with the AK
and blue elephant; so that should be clear in case someone out of
the blue thinks AK in other cases, represents Alaskan conservatives!}

In any event...
I know of people here who've gotten RU based email spams
and they have IP based email. Those with google mail don't
get RU-based spams however. Such as me. They're filtered.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

You can't block spam from the client side. You must setup a rule. http://www.freeemailtutorials.com/appleMail/rulesWithAppleMail.cwd

Otherwise, check with you email about using their spam filters for your account.

I don't know how to find the information to do so, but if countries are given contiguous blocks of IP addresses, one could then block by creating a rule (or a set of rules) to look for, as an example, "If Received contains \[85. then do something." (Look at a message with long headers and you'll see to what I'm alluding.) When building the rule, first choose "edit header list" in the first top pulldown menu and add "Received" to the list, then it will show up with the other choices of To, From, CC, and Subject. I'm thinking that might help to get around possibly forged addresses that don't end in ".cn" or whatever, but should.

Could this be something that your email provider could implement on the server side?

A rule based on "From ends with .ru" should catch some of it.

AK

I am assuming in mac I so not have to use *.ru

Correct. You are saying "ends with" so anything can come before. Contains is another useful one.

AK

Austin is from Ireland ...

and in his ignorance was completely unaware that his wee elephant had any political significance in the USA! Thanks for that, K.

AK