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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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Aug 20, 2023 11:08 AM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad, I don't understand. Keyboard Maestro looks like a tool to create keyboard shortcuts. I get one "no sender" email every day. If I want to delete that email I make two clicks, one to select the email and the second click on the trash icon. So that's not many clicks to delete. I guess you could get it to one click with a custom keyboard shortcut, like shift-comand-alt-x-select or whatever. Are you suggesting my two click process could be improved to one click or are you suggesting something different?


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

Sep 4, 2023 8:50 AM in response to garygorman

I agree. A smarmy arrogant response not worthy of Apple - I hope the attitude isn't endorsed by the corporation. I too have just recently started seeing these types of emails; there is no way to block them as junk; it's clearly a new weapon in spam wars, and one way or another Apple is going to have to deal with it. So, let's get cracking.


How can I block emails with no sender?

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