Does anyone use Yahoo mail? Need a a app to block Yahoo spam and works with my iMac

frank_the_snake_master_01 wrote:

I am having so much spam come into my yahoo account is there a app to help me out with my yahoo account thats works together to block all this spam?

Thank you

Frank

Happy New Year 2023 to all

I don't do yahoo...

You always have the option of installing a third party spam filter.

one ex.

https://c-command.com/spamsieve/

I have used this SpamSieve since 2010. Single best software I ever invested in.

A one time purchase, excellent customer support, timely updates with each and every macOS that has come out.

I rarely see SPAM in my inbox

i'm sorry ... those two (SpamFighter & MailWasher) removed support for newer macOS ... they were the only free ones for macOS, who allowed atleast 1 email account to be cleaned/checked for free.

But a free version is available for microsoft-Windows, so if you have a spare Windows computer, you can run the spam-filter-server-app in MS-Windows, & by applying few networking tricks, you can use that spam-filter app's network-ports in windows computer, from the macOS / mac computer, over/inside your home/office LAN connection.

For now, pls use Thunderbird's own builtin spam filter.

and search on Ggl too.

SpamSieve did not work on newer macOS after Catalina (10.15.x), but recently they might have re-introduced it back for newer macOS. SpamSieve did not have any continuous free option. Trial (free for short time) is available.

JunkMatcher spam-filter appears to be still free for macOS.

emde-ash wrote:

SpamSieve did not work on newer macOS after Catalina (10.15.x), but recently they might have re-introduced it back for newer macOS.

According to SpamSieve:

1. SpamSieve 2.9.50 (released August 4) is compatible with macOS 10.9 through macOS 13 and Apple Silicon Macs.

Ofcourse many ppl use Yahoo Mail services provided by Verizon.

in USA, at this moment (atm), more ppl uses yahoo than microsoft-oulook etc, more info here,

but atm gmail users are now highest in USA.

Please load THUNDERBIRD email-client, it allows you to load various extensions/plugins/addons etc.

Load any one of more of these spam-filter addons inside Thunderbird:

SpamFighter : here.

MailWasher : here.

Thunderbird's own builtin spam-filter / junk-mail-filter : turn it on/enable : here.

By the way, there is also Spam Filter addons for apple Mail & microsoft Outlook, search for it kindly, if you need those.

Reduce junk mail in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

frank_the_snake_master_01 wrote:

Is Junkmaster safe to dowload for my new iMac using Ventura?

Generally, though not always, you get what you pay for. SpamSieve is very highly regarded.

Usually to get things working/running for cost-free, you yourself will need to do some own learning+configurations.

By the way, you can load "VirtualBox" from Oracle. Its a hypervisor software, that is : it allows to create virtual computer machine (aka: guest machine, aka: VM) inside a physical/real computer machine (aka: host machine).

you can create a VM inside virtualbox software that has x86 / x64 based virtual-hardware to load Windows-10 / Win10.

assign 3GB RAM for the windows VM, assign 25GB virtual-HDD space, assign atleast 1 or 2 cpu (thread) to it, assign a virtual cd/dvd drive, etc etc.

get Windows-10 ISO installer file only from microsoft website, attach the ISO file in the virtual cd/dvd drive, boot from cd/dvd drive, you can load winodws-10 in it, skip registration during installation to load in Trial mode, you can register later (within 30 days, there are ways to extend it upto 60 or 90 days max, so register before that).

Spend time to fine tune the Win10, by disabling all the extra graphics / feature display related options, disable all the indexing related features/options, disable other unnecessary services/processes/functions, etc ... so that it can consume less resource inside the virtual-machine (VM), then it will run better or smoother. (Thre are free scripts that can remove OS's bloatware).

in virtual-windows10 inside virtualbox, you can run windows-10 compatible apps, & load windows-based SERVER apps that are cost-FREE.

you will need to configure virtualbox configurations further to expose network-ports from (win10) guest , to (macOS) host machine , by using specific virtualbox related commands, so pls see virtualbox website's documentations, commands can be specified in some config file as well.

so above solution, can be used as your own IMAP+SMTP email-gateway , existing inside your own mac computer.

And this can be used from your apple Mail app or from Thunderbird app, etc, that are running in your macOS in your host machine (mac / macbook / iMac computer).

Load multiple free SERVER/GATEWAY(s) inside virtual-Windows10, use different network ports for each,

then use them from macOS email-client apps.