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How can I block emails with no sender?

So it looks like a new email spam technique has developed. The email is send without a sending email address. When one of these emails is received by the Apple Mail app (Big Sur 11.6.5 on my imac), the "From" column displays (no sender). This thread on the Apple Community line How can I block emails from “no sender?” - Apple Community

provides absolutely no help. The Apple Reply appears to be from a AI bot that does not have human supervision. Given that the above link provides no help whatsoever, I thought it a good idea to ask again. Seems hard to believe that the Apple Mail app cannot screen these new spammers. Or perhaps later versions of macOS have solved the problem? My iMac is too old for an upgrade to a more recent macOS.

Posted on Aug 19, 2023 8:05 AM

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Aug 24, 2023 2:45 PM in response to garygorman

The only remedy I came up with was to go to my internet provider (Spectrum) and dive into my email settings there, marking one spammer with no email return address as "junk mail" and they automatically moved all of them to the junk mail folder. When I returned to my Mac's email page, they were all in the junk mail folder as well. I hope this solves the problem.

Aug 25, 2023 2:05 AM in response to garygorman

Haven't tried this with Apple Mail.


Some Windows users were having the same problem with "No sender" spam, and someone came up with the idea to set their mail filtering to move ALL e-mail into (a junk folder, or the trash), EXCEPT for e-mails where the sender field contained a '@'. The idea being that all legitimate e-mails (as well as many others) would have the '@'.


https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/how-can-i-block-spam-email-with-no-sender-email/1ad8e13e-8dc9-4d7f-9b7c-24217094ec3b?page=1

How can I block emails with no sender?

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