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These emails from blocked contacts just appeared in my email. As you see, these things are pouring in. What is the point in blocking contacts if Apple Mail just keeps sending me the stuff? How do I I stop this stuff?
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Why am I still getting emails from blocked addresses?
Spam emails can take a lot of our busy time. In many occasions even if we block them we still get their messages, this is happening when an email address has been spoofed to show a different name in the "From:" field. Identify the real name of the blocked email address and stop it for good.
Elysios 781 points
May 30, 2023 4:30 PM in response to GuitarTom1954
There are a few reasons this can happen:
Why am I still getting emails from blocked addresses?
Spam emails can take a lot of our busy time. In many occasions even if we block them we still get their messages, this is happening when an email address has been spoofed to show a different name in the "From:" field. Identify the real name of the blocked email address and stop it for good.
Elysios 781 points
May 30, 2023 4:30 PM in response to GuitarTom1954
There are a few reasons this can happen:
Just because you blocked an email that had the title "Free Life Insurance!!!!" doesn't mean you will never get other emails with the same subject line. Usually what that means is that it's coming from a different address.
Did you read the link given earlier on how to reduce spam?
User wrote " These emails from blocked contacts just appeared in my email. As you see, these things are pouring in. What is the point in blocking contacts if Apple Mail just keeps sending me the stuff?"
The Mail Client ( Application ) belongs to Apple and we agree on that.
The emails are coming for the Senders via the email address associated with your email Provider
The Application is doing what the User has configured it to do, Block Sender(s)
You may consider logging into the webPortal of your email service provider
See if there is some setting or filter they offer to Block the email addresses of the Block Sender
In so doing, the Blocked Senders email(s) may be Blocked or Deleted Server Side of this equation and never reach your Inbox.
Report and reduce spam in iCloud Mail
An aside but related
Once an email address is exposed on the Internet - some Spammers troll the Social Media Site to Harvest email addresses
They sell and trade lists of email addresses for Profit
I am using Fibre Optic 1 GB upload and 1 GB Download via Bell Canada 🇨🇦
My main email account is with Apple via iCloud
The point being, it matters little, who your email account is placed with from nor the speed of one's Internet.
The Spammers will always find a way to Invade your and my space
We can only mitigate the effects by blocking the senders and or changing your email address and Only give it out to People you Trust
Email, in general, is like writing a personal and confidential letter on a Postcard
Anyone can read it before it arrives to the Recipient
First, I certainly understand that my email is “out there.” I may not have been clear.
When I look at my Junk folder I see emails from blocked senders.
Somewhere in the ether on their way to my iCloud email Junk folder the emails were marked as blocked.
When the marking occurs it seems to me that whoever or however the emails are marked they could just be deleted.
If they can’t then what’s the point of blocking?
I still have to wade through my junk to find the occasional legit email from contacts that Apple sometimes — but not always — does not recognize and marks it junk.
I think my good colleague @IdrisSeabright has your question answered
Yes I saw it and thank you
I have replied
I guess I am too tech un-savvy to understand. Apple Mail is my mail and Apple Mail offers me to block senders. They are not blocked. Where do I go from here. I have Greenlight Fiber. Have no idea how to do as you suggest.
Simplified, Blocked Sender does not
mean to Delete regardless what Mail>> Preferences >> Junk filters
The wording is misleading and has been misleading in Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma
This is my understanding and not that of Apple per se
Blocked sender in Junk allows the user to shift through ALL the junk messages, as you have stated and choose the ones that are Not Junk
Under your scenario above
If the Junk is immediately Deleted, presto your non Junk you mentioned would have been deleted
Careful what you ask for
Thank you and everyone who replied and I now see the flaw in deleting all blocked msgs. If emails from contacts didn’t show up in spam everything would be fine. I’ve seen complaints about that in these discussions.
I rephrased my question above.
You are welcome from a collaborative effort from my fellow contributors and self.
What is the point in blocking contacts?
