Lots of junk mail

Since my recent upgrade to safari 4.0.5 I am getting LOTS of junk mail. Prior to this upgrade it was rare to receive any junk mail.
Wonder if anyone else has seen a similar problem and if so have you found a solution for eliminating it?
Thanks.

Same here, as others have stated, I have never gotten more than 5 pieces of junk mail in the last 2 years.
I keep this account clean and never disclose my address beyond friends/coworkers (one of the reasons I bear the unbearable $100 a year; a solid email system with robust spam filters).
Today, when .Mac came back up, about 5 spams were already there and more have been appearing since then. All of them have the same attachment.
I seriously think someone has broken into .Mac. Maybe that was the reason for that total outage. http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20051121132930491
If possible, please post examples or experiences. This concerns me as another reader stated that people in his Address Book were Cc:ed on some of the spam he got.
The below spam had an attachedment called "Mail.zip (54.2 KB)".
My Example:
From: [email protected]
Subject: smtp mail failed
Date: November 21, 2005 6:55:10 PM EST
To: [email protected]
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
SMTP_Error []
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
The full mail-text and header is attached!
MacMini Mac OS X (10.4.3) 20" Cinema Display

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Hi,
Hopefully someone can help me. It's something I had done but I don't know what I have done. All of a sudden all my emails from eBay are going directly to my Junk Mail folder, although when I try to click them as 'Not Junk' (Thumbs Up) they are not even selected as Junk Mail and I can still select them to be Junk Mail.
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Hi everyone!
Like most everyone I think that spam is rather annoying. I was thinking about how to get rid of it and came up with a very simple yet powerful idea. I've never heard of this way so at least in my own little world I can say I came up with it.
The idea is this: You define a basic set of mail rules. The rules would be this:
- If ALL of the following conditions are met:
+ Sender is not in my Address Book
+ Sender is not in my Previous Recipients
+ Message is Junk Mail
Now of course using the rules that were set above are not at all a great way of defining spam, because someone trying to get a hold of you (such as a potential employer or long lost friend for example) will likely not make their way through those rules, and their message will be marked as spam. Here's where it gets good though! Instead of simply doing a message bounce, you can also add a custom message that goes along with the bounce, as if you were to reply to the spam yourself. Now of course you can make some dirty comments to the potential spammer, but the point of the auto replying is not to be mean or anything of the like. So before going further, here's what would basically happen:
-=-=-=-
I have automatically returned this message to you because I think it is spam.
Original message:
Is your girlfriend happy?!?! bla bla bla
-=-=-=-
Okay now back to the problem: what if the supposed spam message is actually not spam and is important? Well, not a problem! We now use the power of the custom response. Instead of just saying "I have automatically returned this message to you because I think it is spam," we can also add "If this message is not spam, please resend the message and include in the subject line the phrase "we2y9e5". So if the message was indeed a legitimate email and not spam, the original sender can now put the phrase "we2y9e5" in the subject field. And now that can be a custom mail rule! So in the end you'll have:
- If ALL of the following conditions are met:
+ Sender is not in my Address Book
+ Sender is not in my Previous Recipients
+ Subject does not contain we2y9e5
Perform the following actions:
+ Reply to Message [Reply Message Text...]
+ Delete Message
So now if the Sender sends you an email with the subject "we2y9e5" in it, it will no longer be bounced back to them. From there you can add the Sender to your Address Book and have a new lifelong friend.
Of course, if the message was actual spam, the spammer could just go ahead and put "we2y9e5" in the subject line and get through your new shield. This is in no way a problem though, because if people start using this method there's no way a spammer would bother looking for the phrase in an email. Even if they did, it's just a simple matter of changing your phrase and updating the rule that goes along with that phrase. You can even have a little fun and make it like a little puzzle, like "the phrase is the sound a cat makes" or something like that. Just don't make it too confusing, but you get the idea.
No spam means it's far less likely for users to have their computer taken over by those who are up to no good. You won't have to nervously post your email on forums in some weird "this-is[delete this section]my-email [at] yahoo [d0t] com" format. Best of all you'll never have to go through your mail and delete spam again! Give this method a try and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I have attached some screenshots of how to set it up for those who are like me and would rather go off a picture.
Happy emailing!
http://www.fullarticulation.net/tutorials/spam/antispam01.jpg
http://www.fullarticulation.net/tutorials/spam/antispam02.jpg
http://www.fullarticulation.net/tutorials/spam/antispam03.jpg
~Reckless Ronin
[email protected]
www.fullarticulation.net

There are a number of problems with this approach.
1. You should not reply to spam, since in the unlikely event that the "reply to" or "return path" email address is actually owned by spammers, it will confirm to them that yours is a real, "live" email address. This will get it on lists sold & traded among spammers, increasing dramatically the number of junk messages sent to you.
Note: bouncing spam will usually have the same effect, since (contrary to what you might think) it is easy to extract the "bouncer's" email address from the message Mail sends. Bouncing is really only effective if a human reads the reply.
2. In the more typical case, the sender's address is forged, often with a real address of some entity, perhaps from one of these "known good" lists. Sometimes a real address is chosen specifically to victimize its owner, for instance to damage a reputation or to flood a mailbox -- sometimes this is the entire purpose of the spam.
3. A lot of legitimate email is generated by automated systems with no human involved. Frequently these are alerts or advisories, telling you that if action is required it must be done by other than email means, such as through a web site or phone call. Some ignore all email replies, or take action only on those with specific subject or body keywords. It is often not possible to know in advance the email address this type of message is sent from; thus, you can not add it to Address Book until you actually receive an example.
4. Even if the sender is a human & the message is legitimate, the "I think this is spam" reply may cause them not to resend a second version containing your special keyword for various reasons. Imagine for instance someone on a slow, dial up connection, or on a usage based fee service, or with any sort of quota limits to worry about. Or think about what would be required if some poor soul sent a first-time message to a large group, say for organizing a high school reunion, & many of them used this approach, each with their own special 'not junk' keyword.
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I have many folders on my IMAP account and server-side rules to sort my e-mail. Mail correctly synchronizes all these folders (almost, it sometimes shows a wrong number of new messages until I open the folder. But that's a minor issue).
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This is an issue both when the Junk folder is on the server, or locally.
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MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I have many folders on my IMAP account and
server-side rules to sort my e-mail. Mail correctly
synchronizes all these folders (almost, it sometimes
shows a wrong number of new messages until I open the
folder. But that's a minor issue).
The problem is junk-mail. In one folder i receive a
lot of spam. When the junk filter is in training
mode, it correctly identifies the spam messages and
highlights them with the brown color. When I
configure the junk filter to "automatic" mode it
seems to correctly detect junk mail, and moves
messages to the Junk folder (when I answer "Yes" to
run the filter in the current mailbox instantly).
However, when I receive spam and the filter is
already in automatic mode, messages seem to be
detected as spam, but they're not moved to the Junk
folder. When I view the messages, I get the button
to mark them as "Not junk". The messages aren't
marked with the brown color either.
This is an issue both when the Junk folder is on the
server, or locally.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues? If I
don't find a solution to this I'll have to switch to
Thunderbird...
MacBook
Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Yes, I am having the same problem. I've tried changing a slew of mail preferences. So far nothing is quite satisfactory. In fact, for about 36 hours I didn't recieve any email at all, including test messages sent to myself. I'm not sure where it all went. It's confusing. And Mail's documenation *****.
I'd love to hear if you figure this out.
Christina

Junk Mail Filter in Lion: Any Better or Still Mediocre?

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thanks
JIim

Sigh... Jeffery and Michael, you are like the Apple Support people... you simply do not comprehend what is happening or what people are talking about.
First off, the O'Reilly article is from 2004... that's 7 years ago. If you want to believe that OSX has not changed in 7 years, that's your perogative, but it is clearly not in tune with reality. Nor with what Apple is selling. The article may or may not still be accurate... there is no way of knowing.
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From reading some threads here, it seems that an infected Windows machine somewhere that has my email address may be sending these rogue messages....
This morning I got a message from my mail provider stating that I have exceeded my "daily limit" on outgoing messages...I'm not sure if this was an issue with their server (an hour later it worked fine) or if my Mac is actually sending some rogue messages or if an infected machine is actually using my mail server/account to send messages.
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Infected or not, no machine can actually send spam through your email account unless it has that account's password. The fact that you are receiving both lots of spam & lots of rejection notices indicates that your email address (but not your password) is probably on one or more spammer's "known good" address lists. These lists provide not just target addresses for spam but also forged sender ones to make spam look more legitimate to others.
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Hello Diane162,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you would like to be able to filter some of the junk mail that you are receiving in Mail. The attached article has a lot of great information on junk mail filtering, including how to mark as junk and adjust the junk filter.
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I use Mail.app at work/school. Unfortunately, my email address there is [email protected], and because it's so simple spammers have taken to sending spam that looks like it came from me. So every day I get dozens to hundreds of bounces from their spam, and my school's spam filter only catches about a quarter of them.
Here's my problem: 75% of the time, Mail catches all the spam bounces and puts them in my junk mail folder like it's supposed to. But if I get a whole lot at once - usually the first time I Get Mail for the day - it screws up and dumps them in the inbox. They're marked as Junk, but I still have to go through and delete them. The other day, I checked my mail and got over 200 messages in my inbox, only a handful of which were not spam!
If only a few - say, less than 20 - spams come at once, it works fine. But more than that and I have to delete them from my inbox. Anyone know how to fix this? I've played around with the JM filter settings.
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No, those folders could only be a problem if they existed and you had something installed there.
I’m not positive you’ll be able to find a satisfactory solution to this problem because, as I said in my first post, it’s not uncommon for Mail to choke on those bounces and the user not even being able to delete them by normal means, but you may try the following in case there is something amiss here.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and ensuring that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all the mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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