hundreds of spam porn emails

My acct is innundated with porn spam... they usually go to trash but still...hundreds. I have tried blocking, and using Apple Mail preferences to automatically delete them, the sending addresses change all the time but many end with .us or .de... blocking those does nothing. I also notice when I use preferences to delete other spam, many of the porn will disappear when I apply that rule. Any ideas? Thanks!

MacBook Pro 13”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 8, 2020 4:30 PM

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Jan 8, 2020 4:45 PM in response to MSG160

That’s pretty typical for somebody that’s registered with a number of web sites and services, services that have gotten breached, addresses exposed, and otherwise been using email.


SpamSieve works well, though you’ll need to let the Mac run all the time, if you want to have the filtering for your iOS or iPadOS devices.


One of the folks I’ve known was clearly a verified and valuable recipient for the spammers, and got lots of spam.


SpamSieve massively reduced that.


Rules will never work against spam. Only against over-eager advertisers and over-sharing acquaintances.

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