Is there a way to keep junk mail from downloading from the server?

Wumzel1 wrote:

Lately I've been getting a ridiculous amount of junk mail.

I am sick of blocking contacts and deleting them one by one.

One is ***

The 'info' part is always the same, as is the '.irkaspersky.com'. Everything else changes.

I am also getting them from ***

Again, 'info' stays the same, as does 'thermonix.com'.

I would love to prevent them from even being downloaded.

Is there a way to do that?

Or even set it up so everything that comes through with those commonalities is blocked, thereby allowing me to delete at will.

I really appreciate any insight.

Thanks kindly.

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Apple's terminology for spam is "Junk"

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Client side filtering once it reaches your computer...

Server side filters depending on your email provider— you can log in through a browser and make some changes to Spam filters there.

One of the best piece of software I ever invested in was third party spam filter...SpamSieve

If Junk mail is not working for you as expected you can turn it off in Mail>Settings.

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

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

there are others of course:

https://www.spamhero.com/

ref: the whole enchilada

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It’s been the same issue for me. Just an onslaught of junk emails. Blocking the address doesn’t work because each new email comes from a slightly different address. I think they’re using a tracker to see if your computer downloaded or opened the email, because even clicking on them to delete or block them seems to result in more emails.

What’s more, Apple mail’s rules aren’t working to apply automatically on my computer.

what I have found to be effective is not touching junk mail at all on my phone, only opening the junk folder on my computer, and selecting all emails in it and right clicking/selecting “apply rules.”

I’ve set up about 20 rules for all the random email address bases that I get them from, like thermomix and irkasperky. So when I hit apply rules, it deletes them cleanly as if I never touched them.

But it’s really frustrating that these rules aren’t working automatically, and that I can’t create or manage them on my phone. I still get these insane junk emails, but now it’s down to 5-10 a day rather than 100-200.

I am having the exact same problem and found an article on Lifewire.com titled "How to Block email addresses in MacOS mail". You can probably search the article and easily find it. It seemed to have a good solution by using the Rules tab under mail preferences. It has you create a new rule and allowed me to choose to block mail from a sender "that ends in", this is where I entered the irkaspersky.com. Hope this will work for both of us!

Edit: I did a little searching and it looks like irkaspersky.com is a website registered in Iran

Welcome but try the Domain Name Blocking.

Only Example : Offending e-mail address is xxx@whoknowswhat.

Block the @whoknowswhat

That is the Domain Name

Add on - it is working on my wife's account

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Login to the Web Portal of your e-mail server account using our Browser

Some e-mail servers may or may not allow Blocking Senders via full e-mail address or domain name

refer to image from my wife's e-mail server

Just as more info, if you click the arrows to the right of "contains" you'll get the following choices. Also note that you can add multiple lines of conditions:

Wumzel1 wrote:

As I stated in my reply, there is an ever-changing number before the consistent name that is a part of the domain name.

I would be going through the same thing: blocking each one individually.

It is always @(ever-changing number).(same name).com.

Does that make sense?

For example (and Apple might edit thinking it’s a privacy violation):

info.1234@1234.mydogrules.com.

The number sequences are different every time. I need to block the “mydogrules” part.

Pardon me but user wrote >>

" The 'info' part is always the same, as is the '.irkaspersky.com'. Everything else changes.

I am also getting them from ***

Again, 'info' stays the same, as does 'thermonix.com'.

So, which is it ?

I've been getting the SAME emails from the same addresses. It's been awful. I get more than 100 junk emails every day. I have mail rules to filter/delete them from junk, but the rules don't apply properly.

I long for a solution to this.

You can't hit unsubscribe because they will just start sending more and from other email addresses. It seems like there's no way to just auto delete them without them loading some of the content.

It seems like the Rules I created (many rules covering the To and From categories of this scammer) only work one time and then I have to keep going back and modifying the rules. Does anyone know how to make sure the rules work every time?

Apple, Apple Mail, we need help with this. Even with blocking and creating new rules every day, they still make it to the computer and have to be deleted. There MUST be a way to stop these at the server and help all of your users!!!!!!!

GravleyEJ,

Works well! I normally use "contains" but that didn't work in this case.