So very much incoming mail with ‘fake’ offers and notifications from ‘paypal’ ‘mcafee’ ‘norton’ and so forth. I keep selecting Block Sender and send to JUNK. It doesn’t seem to stop any of them.
I apologize if this has been covered previously, but does anyone know a way to block these permanently OR are the senders changing their ‘addresses’ via computerization to stay one step ahead of Apple’s Block Sender. Thank you, Patrick
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Your block is probably working, but such spam is usually using a spoofed e-mail address that it appear to be sent from. The next time it comes it will be from another address.
It’s amazing how often Amex tells me my card is on hold via one of their thousands of GMail accounts!
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I seem to be on a product recommendation spree, but since I installed SpamSieve, I almost never see junk mail in my inbox. And if you’re a TidBITS member, you get 20% off!
[Edit: I just saw Adam’s “Black Friday” article, and the discount for that is 25%.]
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With some of my accounts, I can set up effective block lists so that the senders never end up in Mail at all. Sometimes blocking just a domain is enough to get rid of a lot of junk mail. I blocked some domains because they were always spam: .biz, .site, .company, .host, .xyz, .stream, .date, for example. I also blocked a bunch of country domains, since I have no reason to expect any legit email from them. My main email provider lets me block up to 500 addresses. Unfortunately, Google mail is a major culprit (both @gmail and @googlemail) with endless supplies of bunch-of-random-nonsense sender names.
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Either changing the addresses or using a bulk sending app where the actual outgoing email address is not the same as the From address. Nothing we can really do but get SpamSieve…and even then it only works on a single Mac so if you want filtering on iOS/ipados you have to set it up in an always running macOS with their SPAM drone thing.
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I’ve also struggled with Apple Mail’s blocking and rules for spammers. Marking as Junk often works, at least to put it in Junk folder, but blocking senders… like others wrote, the From in the email display is typically in my experience not the real sender and blocking or applying a rule doesn’t help.
For some especially annoying senders I’ve dug into the full headers and searched for the ‘real’ sending address and use that for blocking or rules.
Sometimes the rules work and sometimes not, alas, even in the latest Tahoe Mail App. Some rules I set up to mark email from a specific domain as read and move it to the trash. Sometimes they’re moved to Trash, sometimes just sit there in Junk folder til I Erase everything in Junk or Apply Rules (which is annoying-the rule should always do its thing, not wait for me, hmph!).
I think I’ll try out SpamSieve.
(edited to add: I think long ago I tried setting up rules in the Mail iCloud interface and those were effective; not sure if still so)
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I too find that sorting and eliminating mail based on filters set up in the Mail section of iCloud works very well and eliminates the need for additional spam filtering. Should repeated emails become bothersome, I simply add a new rule in iCloud/Mail.
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I fiddled around with email rules for quite a while. I finally installed SpamSieve and that solved all my problems with very little effort. I installed it on my parents’ MacBook as well, and they are very happy. The only downside I can think of is that your main Mac must be kept running at least in sleep mode so that SpamSieve can apply the filters, otherwise you get new spam on your other devices in Mail.
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