too much Junk mail hundreds each day on my Mac
I am receiving too much Junk mail hundreds each day on my Mac, is there a way to stop this?
iMac 24″, macOS 14.1
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Low effort: Use a new, different email address instead. Be selective in who you let know about this new email. If the new email gets on a tradable list that spammers use, then it will happen again.
High effort: report each and every new spam to e.g. www.spamcop.net, where the email provider of the spam sources gets notified to take action on their bad customer. I have found this, in combination with the method below, very effective in the long run (down to less than 10 spam/month).
Use a system of revokable extra email addresses (with forwarding to your main email) for half-trusted sign-ups. With a different address per usage, you can stop spam on any specific extra address by knowing the source of the leak and blocking that address from further spam. Apple’s own service for this is ‘Hide my email’ with iCloud+, but there are similar third party providers for this.
It helps if your own email provider and/or mail app has spam detection filters, to group presumed spam in a special folder for a few days, to unclutter your main inbox.