Inbox suddenly flooded with spam?

As the orevious reply has stated, there’s not much that you can do to stop unwanted content from initially reaching your mailbox - however, there is something that will help to avoid indiciating that your mailbox is “live” to the spammers.

Harvested email addresss are often targeted speculatively - and if not confirmed to be “active”, it is possible that the address might eventually be discarded as either “inactive” or “black-holed”.

If you haven’t already, ensure that the “Load Remote Images” setting is Off:

Settings > Mail > Load Remote Images > OFF

The rationale is this...

If you automatically load all images within received email, your mail App will download embedded content the instant that you review the mail in your mailbox. This indicates to a spammer that your mailbox is active - and this can attract further unwanted mail. All the spammer has to do is monitor the source that serves the embedded content (such as an image) to determine that the email content, sent to you, has been accessed - thus confirming the mailbox is live.

If this setting is switched to OFF, reviewing an mail within the mail App will initially display the body text only - the mail App will provide an option to download em embedded content if you choose to do so (which you might wish to do if the email is a wanted and from a legitimate source).

If the email is instead unwanted, you simply delete the mail; as embedded content wasn’t automatically downloaded, the spammer doesn’t receive confirmation that their spam has necessarily been received and/or opened.

Hope this provides some help.

Unfortunately there’s not a lot you can do. Try not to open any of them and delete them unopened.

If a spammer has harvested your address, they will just keep hammering at it.

You do have to open it to do this, but if you see that it’s all coming from one address you could block that. Or to avoid opening it, use your filters to send common headers into the trash (say there’s a bunch for male performance pills, set up a filter that any emails with that name in the subject line go directly to the trash)

Speaking for myself. Good to know, I learn something!👍👊