Where do I find cookies

As do we all. Not much you can do but use a good spam filter on your mail. I recommend using SpamSieve. Best out there from my experience. But you'll never get rid of spam. You also can't do away with cookies.

Open Safari's preferences and click on the Privacy tab. Cookie control will be seen in the upper part of the dialog. Here's what mine looks like:

Click on the Manage Website Data button to reveal a list of all your stored cookie data. You can select all and remove everything. Understand that much will come back as you continue your browsing. But this will not help with spam.

If the e-mails are from certain senders, you can create a rule in Mail/Preferences/Rules. Sample below.

Junk Mail Filters (2)

Junk Mail Filters (3)

Junk mail filters aren’t working correctly - Apple Support

Junk mail filters aren’t working correctly - Yosemite

Junk Mail Filter Change - Mavericks

Here is how your email address gets targeted:

1. When you sign-up for an online service, or blog membership, your email may fall into one of the following categories:
   1. Sold by employees for an extra paycheck, or by the site itself - despite their stated privacy policy.
   2. Shared with another associated business, or affiliate members of that business — that results in junk email.
   3. Stolen by site security breach for use by spammers and phishers. Examples: (Adobe, Yahoo, Target, etc.)
2. You click a link at the bottom of spam/phishing email to unsubscribe, and this confirms that you have an active, e-mail address. Then, they really pour on the junk email from multiple sources to a known target.
3. You provide your email address as a condition for guest access or download.
4. You post your email address in any online support community where it is harvested by sinister people.

I used to boast how one of my email addresses never got spam, until Adobe had a security breach and a large number of accounts were compromised. The spam and phishing from that stolen email continue to increase years afterward, as the address is shared, and sold repetitively.

Sometimes, it is worth setting up a new email account that you never provide outside of close friends and family. You make it crystal clear that the email address is not to be forwarded, posted outside of this group, or otherwise used without your permission.

Katherine -

You can clear cookies in safari on your Mac by opening safari and going to preferences, clearing history and then going to privacy and clicking "manage website data" and deleting the cookies on there. On iOS devices just go to settings, safari and click "clear all website history and data".

Unfortunately, that won't stop spam. You may have to manually unsubscribe from the people who are sending you spam. If they are legitimate then just click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email and ask for your email address to be removed from further mailings.

You know if she's entering her email address online for purchases and such that it would limit spam to have cookies accepted "current website only" rather than your setup of "from websites I visit", right? Just making sure. That sure doesn't HELP with spam.

Mine are in a cookie jar. Could you perhaps ask a clearer, well-defined question?

Depending on what type of email you use, you may want to adjust the spam filters as well. Hope all this helps.

What mail client are you using?