I'm getting mail addressed to ...@suddenlinkmail.com I'd never heard of them before & its not me!

Can someone explain why email that is NOT addressed to any of my email addresses - and clearly addressed to an email address that is not anything like mine (except it has a @ and ends in .com) comes to me? I don't get that part…

OK. I got on the phone with Apple Support. Got a Senior Advisor who had me send multiple screen shots of some of those messages addressed to ...@suddenlinkmail.com, along with the rules I set up in the mail app (that don't work). He did relate that there was a new "anti-piracy" feature in macOS Ventura that is supposed to be "better" at handling this. ???? But, the issue has been elevated to the engineering team, and I expect to get a response in a day or two.

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I have worked on eliminating junk email for months now by setting up mail rules. Sometimes it works and other times doesn't. I have worked on this with Apple senior advisors and they too see the same issue in their personal mail accounts. It is a moving target so it is pretty much impossible to fix. Fortunately Apple Mail recognizes most junk mail correctly and keeps it out of my inbox. The senior advisors have suggested reporting this to apple.com/support. Hopefully there will be some help coming in future software revisions.

The iCloud trick worked for me. I used Safari to go to icloud.com and signed in. I also have a "me" account. I opened the Mail section, then clicked on the gear box icon for settings. This is the rule I use and it least all of the those emails end up in trash.

In Safari, go to iCloud.com and log in.

Then, Click on Mail to open the Mail web interface.

In the upper left hand corner (above the list of Mail Boxes), Click on the small GEAR icon.

Select Preferences. Then select Rules.

Click on the Blue Text that says, "Add Rule"

I can confirm that my real address appears in the headers of those emails (menu item "View" then "Show > All Headers", for those who don't know this yet), and that i already have a rule to delete those emails, but as Mail on my iMac move them to my Junk mailbox, that rule cannot apply without manually invoking "Apply Rules" in menu "Message", by which you can delete All those "...@suddenlinkmail.com" at once.

I have now added a rule in iCloud.com Mail to move them to the Trash there, hoping that my iMac Mail will kindly delete them using my Rules on the iMac then (fingers crossed)…

Keep you informed then…

Michael, I have unsuccessfully made rules to eliminate thermomix.com.sg for weeks. Nothing has worked until I saw your post and tried it. Immediately two appeared in the Thermomix Spam mailbox I created. They have been showing up in my iCloud junk mailbox on my computer mixed in with others. I like the idea of having them dropped into a separate folder where I can select all and delete then. I have a couple of questions. I created a new Thermomix Spam folder in my iCloud account and another in iCloud mail account on my computer. The messages show up in both places but I like this because I can delete them in mail without having to go to my iCloud account in Safari. Your screen shot shows a Delete command. I didn't see this in the preferences when I created the new rule in iCloud mail. Finally as a warning to all becareful creating a rule where the action is to delete the message. Good mail may accidentally get placed there and you will never know because it will be deleted automatically. It happened to me but I was lucky to catch it. A good message appeared when looking at my iPhone and it a flash was gone. The rule worked but the message could never be recovered. I never got to read it. I noticed weekly newsletters stopped coming so I had to amend the rule.

Hi Bob Ayers,

RE: "Your screen shot shows a Delete command. I didn't see this in the preferences when I created the new rule in iCloud mail."

The red, "Delete," is for deleting the Rule, not for deleting messages. Apple does not allow "deletion" of messages with an iCloud Mail Rule. You can only move them to Trash or another Folder of your choosing - for the reasons you mentioned.

RE: "I created a new Thermomix Spam folder in my iCloud account and another in iCloud mail account on my computer."

If you expand all the iCloud mailboxes in Mail on your Mac, you will see the folders you created in iCloud Mail. So, you don't need to create a second folder on your Mac to see and delete those messages. (Using iCloud Mail is only necessary for creating and editing Rules, not for seeing those folders.

I'm glad you are seeing some success with this approach. For me, it has completely solved the spam problem that plagued me for months.

The spam that does get through is handily processed by SpamSieve.

Apple junk filter has been good at identifying the ones you mentioned and sending them to my junk folder. I check my junk folder daily. They are easy to identify because they repeat so often and several indicate that I have won something. I check to see if anything that isn't junk has gotten in and identify those as not junk mail. I then control click on the junk folder and and select erase junk mail. It only take a few seconds now that suddenlinkmail.com and thermomix have been separated out of the junk folder.

Try this rule…

Agree. As I wrote earlier, this is a total mystery to me. I started a chat with Apple support a short while ago, but got disconnected. Will try again and then update this thread. But, to me, this looks like a security hole in the Apple Mail Server.

I get about 30 of these emails every day. A week or so ago I got an alert from my credit service that my email was on the dark web. The filter on my Mac mail didn't work but I will try the iCloud suggestion.

Ok, I’m following your directions, and I don’t have Preferences or a place to create a Rule. What am I doing wrong?

as long as I’m here, I have a .me email address. Is it hard to switch to my .iCloud to stop getting spam? I am getting over 100 a day now.