400 Spam Messages a Day

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400 Spam Messages a Day

Junk about Kamala, Trump, Tesla, Bitcoins, etc. I have blocked the senders, which correctly puts the spam into the Spam folder and keeps it out of my Inbox. However, they still appear in the Unread folder but with a red warning sign.

How do you KEEP BLOCKED MESSAGES OUT OF THE UNREAD FOLDER? KEEP THEM AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER?

Lots of housecleaning in Apple Mail: Empty the Spam and Trash folders, which removes the spam from the Unread folder. Since I usually work from the Unread folder, repeat the procedure several times.

Since I cannot scan all the spam, I may be deleting good messages that have been classified as spam.

I was looking for a setting in Google Mail that would keep spam away. No luck.

This all started early this year. In a moment of foolishness, I unsubscribed to several spam messages as recommended by Google. That brought more spam. It is now growing exponentially.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.1

Posted on Nov 21, 2024 2:40 PM

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Answer 1

AlWeir

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Nov 21, 2024 4:59 PM in response to JoePlato

Here is an example of a rule I use in Mail to help. It is manual but works. If a email comes in and has Bitcoin as a example, put that as a Description, also use in place ox Example in From and Subject. If the email comes in and it is in your Trash, highlight it, but don't open it and right click on it and use the "Apply Rules" at the bottom.

Also use a few other things. In WiFi use the Rotating option, not Fixed or Off.

If you don't get a lot of email that don't have attachments, in Settings for Mail-->Privacy. Use the bottom two options Also use Private Relay in iCloud if you have a 50GB account.

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JoePlato Author

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Nov 22, 2024 11:14 AM in response to AlWeir

Thank you for your suggestion, but it is rather cumbersome. Mail successfully puts spam into the Spam and Trash folders, but they show up in the Unread folder, albeit with a red warning mark.

1) I don't want spam to show in the Unread folder.

2) I would like to keep spam from my computer so that I don't have to keep deleting spam all the time.

Probably, there is no solution in Mail or Gmail.

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AlWeir

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Nov 21, 2024 5:09 PM in response to AlWeir

Mail will not Delete the email. I wish it would, but I haven't found a way to get it to do it. Gmail is spam city.

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JoePlato Author

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Nov 22, 2024 10:36 AM in response to AlWeir

Thanks! That's too bad! I think it should be relatively easy to keep spam away from my computer. Some spammers have been at it for months, and it should be obvious they are emitting spam.

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AlWeir

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Nov 22, 2024 11:19 AM in response to JoePlato

Google doesn't seem to really care. I should mention that there are a couple of third party apps you can use but are not free. SpamAssassin and SpamSieve.

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