Excessive Email Spam
I have been receiveing excessive spam email today that is not being filtered out by the verizon email spam filter. Has anyone else noticed this? The spam filter was previously working.
Ed
I have also seen a lot more SPAM the last few days than I am used to. I suspect the issue is tied to an intermittent failure of one or more of Verizon SMTP and POP servers. Both problems appeared at the same time. There is another thread on this board about Verizon email being broken.
I would hesitate to use the word broken, let's just say unreliable. The POP/SMTP servers seem to go up and down like a yo-yo, and talking to Verizon Customer Service is like talking to a brick wall. The only thing they can do is play with your computer. The possibility that it is actually a Verizon problem is beyond their comprehension.
If the www.verizon.net says it is unavailable, and my email client says it is getting a status of ' service temporarily unavailable', I seriously doubt that changing anything on my computer will have any effect, since www.verizon.net is interacting directly with the pop servers without my computer being involved in the conversation.
anyway I suspect that when they get the server issues fixed, the SPAM filter will also begin working reliably again.
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Excessive Email Spam from Romania!
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--Boundary_(ID_bGb4qADmXFD2EKkp/Z1nUQ)--These are a handful of suggestions for best use, and you should try to adopt as many of them as you can. In general though you should make good use of the spam button, spam detector tool and Filter rules (filters allow you to create a rule, and have it automatically delete those spam messages. You have gone through a lot of the below suggestions, I imagine, so you MAY want to set up two ID's for online email.
Always try to use best practices when using email on the internet.
You should start reporting the spam with a spam button in the webmail client
Forward spam emails that were not caught to [email protected]
Set your e-mail filter. An e-mail filter and spam blocking software are absolutely critical. Set these security measures to update automatically to ensure that you are protected from the latest threats.
NEVER reply to spam. Replying to spam, even to "unsubscribe," could set you up for more spam.
Protect your e-mail address and instant message ID. If you must post this information online, set up two identities, one for real use and one for online activities.
Be wary of e-mail attachments. Change the settings on your e-mail program so that images and attachments are not opened automatically. Only open attachments from users known to you.
Watch out for phishing scams. Don't click on links in e-mails or instant messages unless the sender is known to you. Instead, open a separate web browser and visit the site directly.
Create smart and strong passwords. Use a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols.
Never enter your personal information in a pop-up window. You may not be able to tell when a scammer has hijacked a seemingly legitimate site.
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I'm having problems with excessive email usage on my iphone 4/ios 7. Just noticed that it (settings/usage) was using 900+ mb. I deleted all my mail, deleted the mail account, turned the phone off and back on, downloaded any remaining mail on the server to Outlook on my computer, and it still says it's using 661 mb. My ipad uses a fraction of that.
Background: I recently (December) bought an ipad and set up icloud for contacts and calendar, but NOT mail. My email provider is Verizon. I use computer, iphone, and ipad to check my email; eventually I download it from the server using Outlook on the computer and then delete any remaining emails from the phone and ipad. I can't find info on this problem anywhere.Howdy there COUGAR444,
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iOS: Force an app to close
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
When you have done that restart the device and test the issue again:
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
If the issue persists, backup your device to iTunes, then restore it as new and verify that it works.
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups
If it does, then restore your backup to either verify it still works and the software just needed reinstalled, or isolate the issue to the backup file itself.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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You can't.
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Just as with an iTunes playlist. A song cannot be in an iTunes playlist unless the song is in the main iTunes library. Placing a song in a playlist does not duplicate the song. Remove the main iTunes library or the songs from the main iTunes library that are in a playlist and the songs will no longer be in the playlist either. This way you can listen to the songs in the playlist only by selecting the playlist, or all songs in your entire iTunes library by selecting Music under Library in the iTunes source list.
The same with iPhoto on a Mac. A photo cannot be in an in iPhoto Event or Album unless the photo is in the main iPhoto library. Placing a photo in an Event or Album does not duplicate the photo. This way you can view the photos in an iPhoto Event or Album only by selecting the Event or Album, or all photos in all Events or Albums. -
I am using Intuit's GoPayment to process my credit card payments from customers. GoPayment allows me to email a receipt to my customer but many do not have email addresses so I purchased the HP3522 ePrinter so that I could email the receipt directly to the printer's email address enabling me to provide them with a printed receipt. The email spam filter is rejecting these emails. Intuit creates the email and sends it with my gmail account listed as sender. (I have the settings on the printer set to accept ANY addresses). Anyone else have this issue?
I am able to send the receipt to myself and then send that email to the printer but that seems rather counter-productive and time-consuming. Is there a way to get these receipts to print on this printer without this added step??
I paid for the printer, the paper, and the ink cartridges - shouldn't it be MY decision if spam emails are using it up??? Please, let ME decide what is spam!!!Hi CARParts. The spam filter for email prints cannot be overridden. If the subject line is blank, that could be a reason it is being blocked, but I imagine it has something typed in. If you wish to print these receipts a workaround to consider would be to have them sent to your email directly and then save/convert them to a PDF file, and then send to the printer.
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Unhappy with OS X Server handling of email spam
I'm unhappy with the way that OS X Server (on Mountain Lion) handles email spam.
What I *want* is to be able to set some SpamAssassin rules, and then to have the mail server refuse spam emails (not accept and put into Junk, but refuse to accept them in the first place). I used to do this with Exim and the sa-exim tool. In 10.7 I decided to switch to the built-in mail server, but that doesn't offer this functionality.
I would settle with being able to set some SpamAssassin rules and then have the server filter junk email into my Junk folder. 10.7 Server used to do this; I had to enable webmail and turn on the setting in there, and it would configure Pigeonhole (a Dovecot plugin) to put spam into the Junk folder. 10.8 server no longer offers webmail and no longer comes with Pigeonhole. I can add it myself with MacPorts, but I don't understand how to configure it on OS X Server.
So I have to settle for my OS X Server delivering all junk emails to my inbox, where then I have to delete them one-by-one on my iPhone. I could leave a Mac on at home all day to do the spam filtering, but that just seems silly.
If anyone could tell me how to set up Pigeonhole on OS X Server (10.8) to put my spam into a folder - or even how to set up Postfix to refuse spam in the first place - I would be very, very happy.The issue you've run into is that postfix uses amavisd as its post queue (I.e. received and accepted by smtp) filter.
If you don't want to set server-side rules ( easiest way is still webmail / Managesieve plugin) to auto move junk mail into a junk folder because of security concerns, then there are other options.
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I haven't done this but, if you have a look at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedInPostfixWithAmavis ,
It has some instructions on how to adjust the amavisd conf ( path to server/mail/config/amavisd/amavisd.conf ) , set up a new mailbox and quarantine the spam to there. This saves you having to set up webmail /Managesieve plugin, and means that you don't lose any mail incorrectly classified, although you will need to clean it out from time to time.
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Iphone Email Spam... How do I filter the spam? My yahoo account filters the spam, but the Iphone does not!!
How you are accessing your Yahoo account on your computer is called webmail access using a browser with IE which also indicates Yahoo is doing the SPAM filtering at the incoming mail server for your account which should be the same when accessing the account with the iPhone's email client.
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How can I protect against email spam robots in muse?
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Hello
I have lots of emails spams coming into my emails. How to stop them from emailing me with spams?hope you can help?Setup email filters on your mail provider's website. The iPad Mail App does not have filtering capability.
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Email SPAM filter doesn't work
Is the webmail SPAM filter supposed to ... like ... prevent SPAM? I get the same SPAM every day. The SPAM button does nothing,
I have been marking about 30 per day as spam and forwarding all of them to the address that Verizon says is for undetected spam. The spam I get is all from the same outfit, I believe, based on the uniformity of how they package their notes and the fact that all of the links are spoofed. One would think that after 30 a day for several months, somebody in Verizon would wake up to the fact that Verizon users are getting killed with spam. One would think that if they truly cared about our email experience they would have an army of folks jumping on the spam we forward to them, aggressively pursuing it and working to reduce it. The fact is that they show no evidence of putting forth ANY effort at making our experience better.
The fact seems to be that they have little concern for their email users. The more of us that stick with Verizon for our home internet service, paying them their monthly fee, but jump to other, better email providers merely means less work for them. Not a bad model for making maximum profit, but a sucky way to treat customers.
My Verizon Wireless service has been fantastic. But my Verizon phone/internet service sucks. I'm just waiting until another provider is available in my area so I can leave Verizon forever. Lousy support, uncaring employees. I send in notes to them and get zero response. Look at the complaints in these forums that continue to rack up. Almost no response from the company. We're all left to try to deal with our problems ourselves with only minimal support. Probably some intern that spends his/her shift playing Angry Birds. -
I would say in the last week, we have seen an increase in random spam coming through our IronPort C160. We are on async version 7.6.0-444. It seems in the message logs quite a few get out there with random. My boss just got 3 pieces of spam mail in the last 10 minutes. Here are our the settings in anti-spam.
Anything you guys recommend? Why the uptick in spam all of a sudden?
IronPort Anti-Spam Overview
IronPort Anti-Spam Scanning:
Enabled
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Never scan 3M or more.
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120 seconds
Regional Scanning:
Off
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No updates in progress.Ok I altered the values to 80 and 40 respectivly, and also slightly altered the SBRS score ranges for blacklist, throttled and allowed. Our CIO still got another piece of spam. I had him install the Ironport outlook plugin and report it as spam.
How can we stop this from getting in?
Envelope and Header Summary
Received Time:
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
MID:
8565070
Message Size:
1.39 (KB)
Subject:
Hey, Need_to_Finance _a_New_Car? (AllCreditOK)
Envelope Sender:
[email protected]
Envelope Recipients:
-undisclosed recipients
Message ID Header:
<[email protected]newcarsfound.net>
SMTP Auth User ID:
N/A
Attachments:
N/A
Sending Host Summary
Reverse DNS Hostname:
point70.breadhosting.net (verified)
IP Address:
209.95.37.187
SBRS Score:
None
Processing Details
MAIL POLICY "DEFAULT" MATCHED THESE RECIPIENTS: undisclosed recipient
04 Sep 2014 11:57:31 (GMT -04:00)
Protocol SMTP interface Management (IP 192.168.1.200) on incoming connection (ICID 13310837) from sender IP 209.95.37.187. Reverse DNS host point70.breadhosting.net verified yes.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:31 (GMT -04:00)
(ICID 13310837) ACCEPT sender group SUSPECTLIST match sbrs[none] SBRS None
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
SMTP delivery connection (DCID 4387118) opened from Cisco IronPort interface 192.168.1.200 to IP address 10.1.1.3 on port 25.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Delivery connection (DCID 4387118) successfully accepted TLS protocol TLSv1 cipher RC4-SHA .
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Start message 8565070 on incoming connection (ICID 13310837).
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 enqueued on incoming connection (ICID 13310837) from [email protected].
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 on incoming connection (ICID 13310837) added recipient (undisclosed recipient).
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 SPF: helo identity [email protected] Pass
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by engine SPF Verdict Cache using cached verdict.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 SPF: mailfrom identity [email protected] Pass
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 does not contain DKIM signature.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 contains message ID header '<[email protected]newcarsfound.net>'.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 original subject on injection: Hey, Need_to_Finance _a_New_Car? (AllCreditOK)
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 (1425 bytes) from [email protected] ready.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 matched per-recipient policy DEFAULT for inbound mail policies.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Spam engine: CASE. Interim verdict: Negative
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Spam engine: CASE. Final verdict: Negative
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Virus engine Sophos. Interim verdict: CLEAN
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Virus engine. Final verdict: Negative
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Outbreak Filters. Verdict: Negative
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 queued for delivery.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
(DCID 4387118) Delivery started for message 8565070 to undisclosed recipient.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:33 (GMT -04:00)
(DCID 4387118) Delivery details: Message 8565070 sent to undisclosed recipient
04 Sep 2014 11:57:33 (GMT -04:00)
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I get alot of spam and windows mail stops it pretty well.. my question is when i setup my iphone to recieve email all the mail comes spam and all.. anyway around this...
so i have to get ahold of my isp?.. maybe i will try routing it thru google.. seemed to work on my htc magic
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Can your contacts be hacked and sent as email spam
I have received confirmation of spam email sent from my contact list on my pc, my mail address is hosted by AOL is there any software to check if i have in spambots hidden in my system or is it within AOL servers.
It was your use of the term PC that led me to believe you were using a Windows computer. While Macs are technically personal computers, PC is more generally thought of as a Windows computer while Apple computers are Macs.
My confusion aside, it is still extremely unlikely your Mac is infected with some form of malware. The odds are it is a PC belonging to someone you correspond with that is infected. They are in all likelihood not using your AOL account, instead setting up an SMTP server on the infected PC and spoofing to appear as if the traffic were coming through AOL. So changing your AOL password wouldn't hurt anything, it is unlikely to help.
There is one possibility where your Mac is involved and that would be if someone else has physical access to your Mac. In that case all bets are off. If someone with ill intentions has physical access to your Mac and a modicum of knowledge, they own you and your computer. Your best protection in that case is to encrypt your entire HD using Filevault (System Preferences > Security & Privace > Filevault.)
WARNING: If you use Filevault and forget your password you are toast.
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