Are Junk Mail Options like the Shut Door button on Elevators?

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Are Junk Mail Options like the Shut Door button on Elevators?

It seems there are lots of opportunities to do things about Junk mail, but none seem to work. Moving things to Junk mail has done little. I see lists of the same junk mailers in there every day. I move the legitimate email back to the inbox after adding the name to my contacts. I chose block contact and have the option to move blocked contacts to trash, but it doesn't work. To see who the sender really is I must open the email which means the sender knows I have looked at it.

I know this is a game of whack a mole, but the same junk mail from the same addresses/domains still comes in and I can't seem to white flag the legit ones?

Is this like the open/shut buttons in elevators, that reportedly do nothing except make like you have done something?

I understand the massive size of the problem. If I can just stop those repeat offenders that send mail daily and whitelist the legit ones, that would be an improvement.

Thanks. (<close the doors on spam>)

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 1:04 PM

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BDAqua

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Aug 15, 2021 1:52 PM in response to Jarmaracark

Sometimes they are.,LOL.

But don't move the eMails with Move to function, using the Junk/Not Junk button is supposed to train Mail.

Personally for ridding of spam, I donated $15 to spamcop.com, reporting spam there has cut it to near zero, some spammers are persistent & may require 2 or 3 reportings.

Just crossed my mind why mail messes with junk/not junk for some, wonder if it's Spotlight needs rebuilding?

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.

Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

Open Terminal and run each of these...

sudo mdutil -E /

This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc. To re-index only for a specific drive, use the /Volumes path. For example, for an external drive named “MiniMe,” the command would look like this:

sudo mdutil -i on /

Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line. A few minutes normally. Then Mail may take a week or more to start learning.

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