Account flooded by junk mails

I have had this Verizon account for more than ten years. It is now flooded by junk emails, o matter how many times I move them to the spam folder. Any solutions other than close this account altogether?
Thanks for your suggestions.
TZ

The Spam filter (even though it might be on) is acting like it's off.
Toggle it. Turn it off, Save it.
Wait a little while and re-enable it.
And then keep an eye on it and let us know if it helps. I hope it does,

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You're welcome.
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hi
you have to change the config.xml to allow the server accept relay mails from your host machine from which you are sendign the mail ...
ie
change
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add few more ips (your network / subnet ip)
so that it accpets mails from that machine to be relayed ...
you can also change the smtp autheriZation part and do that ...
any one is enough ..
Regards
Venkat

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