Blocking a whole Domain for Junk Mail - has anyone tried this approach?
I know it is a pain to block each spammer email address one bc they use hundreds and hundreds. It works with Apple Contacts and Mail just as designed. I'm curious if anyone else does this?
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OVERVIEW: Uses your Contacts temporarily, but with one difference - saving a Contact with the *@domain, so you can pull it into your Blocked or Junk Mail list (then delete the Contact you created, still leaving the domain you are blocking in the Junk list.)
The junk mail for the domain will go to your Spam/Junk folder.
SPECIFIC Setup:
Create a new Contact with the spam email address (don't save yet)
(Your email will differ of course. I used this for demonstration since I don't want to publish an actual email domain here)
Contact email: junk@testspam.abc
UPDATE the email address: Replace junk (or your spammer name) before the @ to an astrick *
Contact name: Test Spam
email saved: *@testspam.abc
Now SAVE the new Contact (I used Test Spam to make it easy to find - remember this is a temporary)
Block Contact in Mail:
iphone/ipad: Settings>Mail>Blocked
Desktop/Laptop: Mail>Preferences>Junk Mail
add the Contact to the Blocked or Junk Mail list (Screenshot 1 for Desktop/Laptop)
Delete the temporary saved spam Contact in Contacts app
restul - Screenshot 2 (desktop/laptop): This does NOT delete it in your new Block list email: *@junkmail.abc remains in the JunkMail/blocked list (but you see the Contact name no longer appears because you deleted it in Contacts app).
It will still appear in your iPhone/iPad blocked list also.
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
You can do this same thing on your Laptop and Desktop using Mail Rules (Mail>Preferences>Rules), if you want to create Mail Rule, saving the *@domain and moving to either Junk or Trash, but there seems to be a question if this worked on synced iphone and ipad. The block domain question has been around for years. And now after the pandemic, it seems spammers are trying to make up for lost time.