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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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Posted on Feb 27, 2024 8:51 AM

Set up a rule "From", "does not contain", "@", "delete". Worked for me.

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Apr 9, 2024 6:10 AM in response to garygorman

The most effective way I have found that seems to work and Does not delete all your emails is on a Mac go to preferences “Rules” create one rule don’t involve any any other rules with it .. “From” “Does Not Contain” “ . “ .. then create a mailbox on your Mac called “ filtered mail “ have this rule send any mail to this box… only use it for this rule.. don’t add it to a pre-existing rule. Then, when you go to your mail, you look in the filtered box, anything that should be kept for whatever reason you can transfer back to the inbox and anything else you just select all and delete.

Aug 23, 2023 4:13 PM in response to Nonoise226

"what the heck" indeed. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254567622, I found a MacOS Ventura 13 user who has the same problem. Maybe this problem is present in all MacOS or maybe it somehow turns up only infrequently, I don't know. But the simple fact is that it is not a sufficiently high priority for Apple to fix, perhaps because the software bug only turns up for a few users. The problem seems easy to fix as it results when the sender="null" b ut maybe not so easy to fix for who knows what reason.


Apr 2, 2024 4:31 PM in response to garygorman

Have you selected a message when you try to access that menu?


Try the following:


1 - Control (right) - click on the email toolbar and select Customize Toolbar.

2 - select and drag the "All Headers" icon into the toolbar and click Done.


3 - open one of the problem emails into it's own window and click on the "All Headers" tool.

How can I block emails with no sender?

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