Frosted Flake wrote:
NFN Smith wrote:
CC D wrote:
How do I block email addresses from unwanted spam. When I get these
emails I hit the spam button but they keep coming back.
Are you trying to block this content from inside Seamonkey? If so, I
recommend that you don't bother.
These days, most servers have user-tunable spam filters active. If
you're getting unwanted content, the first thing to do is to check
your webmail client, and use the offered tool for marking messages as
Spam there.
There are multiple benefits to using the server's tools as your
primary spam filter. The major one is that the server is better able
to handle spam based on your stated preferences, and where the
handling is focused on the entire message content (including all
headers and body), rather than specific content. From there, those
preferences are applied at the time the message is being received by
the server. And if a specific message is designated as spam (or not
spam), then similar message will be handled in the same way. And
tagging a message as spam is generally enough to get content delivered
to a spam folder, and depending on server implementation, enough to
cause future content that's sufficiently similar to be rejected by the
server entirely.
Therefore, even if an incoming message purports to be being sent by
somebody you know, if it's spam, it's safe to designate as spam,
because the filter is applied to the entire message, not just the
From: or Subject: lines.
As a general thing, it's not worth the effort to do spam-filtering in
Seamonkey. It's common for spammers to randomize as much as possible,
and if you're trying to create filtering rules, by the time you figure
out a usable pattern to block a specific message or two, it's unlikely
that you'll ever see another message that matches that pattern.
In other words, it's not worth the effort to do spam-filtering from
Seamonkey unless you're getting content from a source that's unusually
constant in flow and consistent in content.
Smith
Sounds good EXCEPT - - this does not work with comcast/xfinity.
I have ONE email address with them that gets at least one, usually two
every day since the beginning of the year. (I don't have any
recollection of this happening so often earlier). However, EVERY one of
them has been marked as SPAM in Seamonkey, AND EVERY one of them has
been marked as SPAM in the Comcast Email, AND EVERY one of them has been
sent to comcast at [email protected], AND since mid February, I
have taken to forwarding the entire list (currently 61 emails) to both
"[email protected]" and "[email protected]". I have six other
email addresses with comcast, NONE of them get this quantity of SPAM.
THe main thing that they have in common is a size less than 6-8 KB,
anything larger is usually a Phishing email.
In about mid March I'm going to delete that email account and create a
new one with a different name that my correspondents can use. (This one
gets very little useful/real/non-SPAM so it should not be too difficult
to notify this that use it to contact me.)
I have had to do this once or twice.
I created the new address, told all my legitimate correspondents to use
it, monitored the old one for a few weeks, told all remaining legitimate
correspondents to USE THE NEW ONE and then nuked the old one altogether.
There was no reason to do it all at once.
--
spammo ergo sum, viruses courtesy of https://www.nsa.gov/malware/
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