On Monday, February 22, 2021 at 6:26:54 PM UTC-5, 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.) > > -- > Frosted Flake
UPDATED: How do I block email addresses from unwanted spam. When I get these emails I hit the spam button but they keep coming back. I called them and I cant filter them by address because they change it all the time. But I CAN filter it to spam when I filter out the subject line or certain words in the subject line. Also if I include keys words in the body of the email. Thanks for all the suggestions. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
