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Apple Mail cannot block junk email in OS 10.14.6

Receiving too many junk emails and cannot find instructions for OS Mojave 10.14.6. Found instructions for Big Sur & Catalina.


Believe all junk filters set correctly. Wish to block emails immediately. Please help


Thank you


OS Mojave 10.14.6

Apple mail vers. 12.4 (3445.104.21

MacBook Air early 2015

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 7, 2021 8:37 AM

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Posted on Oct 7, 2021 9:58 AM

Hello, no blocking in 10.14.6, Rules is all we have...


Use rules to manage emails you receive in Mail on Mac

You can create rules that help you manage incoming email messages and automate tasks, such as replying to or deleting messages. For example, you can create a rule that highlights messages from a specific person, or that automatically moves messages from your inbox to other mailboxes.

Open Mail for me

  1. In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Rules.
  2. To review an example of a rule, select a provided rule, then click Edit. To close the rule, click Cancel.
  3. Click Add Rule, then type a name for the rule.
  4. Indicate whether any or all of the conditions must be true for the rule to be applied to a message.
  5. Specify the conditions.
  6. To use different header fields in conditions, choose Edit Header List from the first pop-up menu. To add your own header, click the Add button in the Message Headers window.
  7. Choose actions to perform on messages that meet the conditions. To specify multiple actions, click the Add button .
  8. You can use AppleScript scripts as rule actions.
  9. When you’re done, click OK, then decide to apply rules to existing messages already in mailboxes or to new messages.
  10. You can apply rules to existing messages later by choosing Message > Apply Rules.

If you have multiple rules, they’re applied in the order in which they appear in the list of rules; drag a rule up or down to change the order.

Mail stops applying rules to a message when it encounters the Stop Evaluating Rules action, or when a message is transferred to another mailbox by rules used on a mail server or computer or device synced to your computer.

If you use iCloud Drive, your rules are available on your other Mac computers that have iCloud Drive turned on. Files attached to rules, such as sound files or scripts, aren’t available. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents.

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Oct 7, 2021 9:58 AM in response to musiu

Hello, no blocking in 10.14.6, Rules is all we have...


Use rules to manage emails you receive in Mail on Mac

You can create rules that help you manage incoming email messages and automate tasks, such as replying to or deleting messages. For example, you can create a rule that highlights messages from a specific person, or that automatically moves messages from your inbox to other mailboxes.

Open Mail for me

  1. In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Rules.
  2. To review an example of a rule, select a provided rule, then click Edit. To close the rule, click Cancel.
  3. Click Add Rule, then type a name for the rule.
  4. Indicate whether any or all of the conditions must be true for the rule to be applied to a message.
  5. Specify the conditions.
  6. To use different header fields in conditions, choose Edit Header List from the first pop-up menu. To add your own header, click the Add button in the Message Headers window.
  7. Choose actions to perform on messages that meet the conditions. To specify multiple actions, click the Add button .
  8. You can use AppleScript scripts as rule actions.
  9. When you’re done, click OK, then decide to apply rules to existing messages already in mailboxes or to new messages.
  10. You can apply rules to existing messages later by choosing Message > Apply Rules.

If you have multiple rules, they’re applied in the order in which they appear in the list of rules; drag a rule up or down to change the order.

Mail stops applying rules to a message when it encounters the Stop Evaluating Rules action, or when a message is transferred to another mailbox by rules used on a mail server or computer or device synced to your computer.

If you use iCloud Drive, your rules are available on your other Mac computers that have iCloud Drive turned on. Files attached to rules, such as sound files or scripts, aren’t available. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents.

Oct 10, 2021 8:48 PM in response to BDAqua

BDAqua: thanks much for very thorough and complete answer. Of course disappointed to learn limitations pf OS 10.14.6. Believe settings correct and set toobest available. No junk mail received in InBox.


Apprecitae your response. Piople of your caliber certainly help the neophytes like myself.


Thanks again.

Apple Mail cannot block junk email in OS 10.14.6

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