More junk mail recently

Since I was "migrated" to the new BT email system I have been getting a lot more junk/spam/phishing emails. Can I change a setting somewhere to stop this?

I also have been getting spam on a daily basis since the upgrade (down grade more like). From day one of being switched to the new system i have had spam everyday. And like Annegray01 points out, it does not matter how many time you mark it as spam, further emails from the same people still gets sent straight to your inbox, not even marked as being spam.
Come on BT, this is not good enough, first, why are we getting so much more spam now we are on your new system, and, secondly, why on earth does your mail system not remember something we have repeatedly marked as being spam? The yahoo system found that easy, mark it as spam the first time you get an email from a certain company, then future mail from that company would automatically be put in the spam folder without any input from us.
I am also sure that Yahoo must have much superior spam filters, thus half the junk we are getting now would have been stopped at your end with Yahoo.
For a company that rates itself so highly, this mess really is not good enough, shines a very bad light on BT.

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More junk mail since I've made and applied rules...why?

I was getting 6-8 junk emails a day. It was recommended that I use rules to delete them and prevent them from re-occuring. Now that I have applied the rules I am getting two to three times more junk mail. Why is this happening?

iSki123 wrote:
I was getting 6-8 junk emails a day. It was recommended that I use rules to delete them and prevent them from re-occuring. Now that I have applied the rules I am getting two to three times more junk mail. Why is this happening?
Because your email address has made the spammer's top ten list.
The rules won't prevent spam. They just move the spam to the trash.
Do you have the Junk mail filtering turned on in Mail's preferences?
It will attempt to identify incoming spam and move it into the Junk folder. If it doesn't catch a message, you can mark that message as junk and it might start learning that messages like that are junk. Also, it may catch some messages that are not junk. So, you have to periodically peruse the Junk mail folder to see if it has caught anything legitimate. You can mark those as Not Junk so that it will learn not to catch those.
"Thumbs Down" button marks it as Junk
The button turns to a "Thumbs Up" to mark it as "Not Junk". Also, there will be a banner across the top of the message where you can mark it as "Not Junk."
It is also advisable to set Mail so that it doesn't show remote images. When those images are loaded, the spammer can tell that you opened them because they are retrieved from their servers. That validates you email to them and they now have a more valuable email address they can sell to other spammers.

Getting more Junk Mail in one Mac than the other

I have two Macs I regularly use: a G5 running Tiger, and a new MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. The G5 gets a minimum of junk mail. The MacBook Pro gets a significant amount. Both junk mail filter settings in Mail preferences are set identical to one another (enable junk filtering - yes, etc.). I can't figure this out. Thanks.

Yes, POP3 mail accounts. I can't understand why this would cause one computer, and not the other, to bear the weight of a majority of the email. I guess one wey is to see if the computer with less email actually never received it, and that it wasn't filtered out. But I honestly still wouldn't know what to do if that happened to be true.
Chris

Junk mail since using iPad

Since using an iPad I am receiving more and more junk mail. I have tried to add to Blocked Senders but I still receive them. Anyone else suffered from this?

The Mail app on the iPad does not have any junk filtering capabilities. You'd need to log into your email account through your email provider's web page and see what type of filtering they offer on their side.

How to stop getting junk mail

How do I stop the weekly US postal service mailings from AT&T U-verse? Seriously. I've contacted AT&T a few times, and nothing works. AT&T has literally tried to steal money from me in the past, so I have no desire to ever be a customer, and I receive more junk mail from them than most other companies combined (about ~70 mailings per year). You are wasting your time, money, and our resources with this crap. Seriously, how does one make the junkmail stop?

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My Junk Mail has increased ten fold. It seems that spammers has got hold of my E-mail address has anyone else had this problem recently?

In the last 2 weeks my Junk mail has totally gone viral. I am having at least 10>12 mails a day of junk advertizing. I have never had this prevously have the Apple mailboxes been hacked into?

I had this happen to me yesterday. I got over 160,000 spam emails in 24 hours. Now I can't access my email. I'm able to get to all the other icloud functions tho. Really weird. I have tried on a couple of different computers but NO go. I thought it might have been my computer or OS devices but it won't even let me access my mail on my computer from work. I think I will have to contact Apple support. Anyone have any ideas?

Mysterious "junk mail" problem

For the past couple of days, each time I open Mail (2.0.5); aside from fetching mail, takes a random, recent email (sometimes sent, sometimes received) and places it in the Junk Mail folder. It does not mark the mail as junk (No 'Mail thinks this mail is Junk' header).
The mail (always Ham, often mail which I have sent) which mysteriously moves from the in-box or sent items is always recent (though not always the last received/sent); there is never more than one.
This is hardly earth-shattering in its ramifications, but it means I have to carefully check the Junk mailbox before quitting (as I have Mail set to erase Junk on quit)
Any thoughts, people?

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Junk mail just does not work as it should

I've had this for ages and just put up with it.
I have my jumk mail settings set for
Enable: the following types of messages are exempt from junk mail filtering: sender of message is in my address book (and in previouos recipients).
I assume that this means that anyone sending a message who is in my address book will not then appear as junk. This does not happen and despite repeated attempts to assign each one as not being junk it never learns as I thnk it is supposed to. A very few of my incoming messages of people who are in my address book do not appear as junk but I can't see a pattern.
Over time I have tried all kinds of ways to set the various settings but to no avail and now I really think that I should try and sort it as it is low grade annoying. I would appreciate any help anoyne could give.
Pete Snowdon

hey are you still having trouble with your ical publishing? it looks like it needs more testing...but try this format of the web address.
http://ical.me.com/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME
It looks like iCal hasn't updated when you updated your operating system if it's still writing to a .mac address like you suspected. The most recent version is 4.0.1. If you need to update your actual application you can try copying from another computer with snow leopard installed (I've tested this), or reinstalling Snow Leopard. (not a fun option for such a small issue I know)

Overzealous junk mail filter

I'm having trouble with Apple Mail. So much so in fact, that I'm ready to switch over to Entourage instead.
I used to love how far advanced Mail's junk filter was over the competition. It rarely produced false positives (tagging good mail as junk), at the same time, catching most of my junk mail. Recently however, so many legitimate emails are being tagged as junk. I find myself sifting through my junk mail filter after each check of my email, which sort of eliminates the usefulness of a filter in the first place. Messages from online vendors, in particular, are getting tagged as spam. Every online order I place, every eBay transaction, even messages from my bank, it's over the top. Every time I discover one of these false positives, I tell mail that it's not junk and move it to my Inbox before deleting it. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be helping.
I'd really like to keep using Apple Mail. Any advice on how to prevent false positives would be appreciated. Is there an easy way to create a whitelist?
Thanks in advance,
Dave

Spam doesn't get directed to your email address out of thin air.
When a spammer uses HTML that must be rendered from a remote server and you allow the HTML to be rendered, you are notifiying the spammer that your email address is "known good" causing more spam to be received.
Selecting a "remove me" link included with spam does no such thing and alerts the spammer that your email address is "known good" causing more spam to be received.
Using an email address in a public internet forum or providing it out in the open in any public manner on the internet will cause that email address to receive spam.
The email address used for online shopping is suspectible to spam depending on the merchant's privacy policies. Some state they take your privacy seriously when they do not.
Are any of these email addresses used for online shopping - namely with your iCloud account?
HTML included with spam rendered with any of these addresses - namely with your iCloud account?
Google has an excellent spam filter at the server level, but I can't say the same about Yahoo.
If someone is a regular Mail app user on a Mac with the included junk mail filter trained well along with accessing an IMAP account, it is a viable option to leave the Mail app on their Mac launched and running for junk mail to be filtered by the Mail app on their Mac. This will be reflected with accessing the account on a mobile device as well that doesn't have a junk mail filter.

Erase Junk Mail is Dimmed

Until recently I was able to "right" click on the Junk Mail folder in the Mail.app and select Erase Junk Mail. Now when I bring up the contextual menu Erase Junk Mail is dimmed as is Erase Junk Mail from the Mailbox menu is also dimmed. Any ideas?

Agreed. I had just changed my Junk Mail preferences to "Perform Custom Actions" and the same thing happened to me - no more "Erase Junk Mail".
Changing the preference item back to "Move it to the Junk mailbox" restored the "Erase Junk Mail" functionality. BTW: hitting the reset button wasn't required.
Personally, I think this is a nice little bug.

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

Urgent help needed with un-removable junk mail that froze Mail!!

Urgent help needed with un-removable junk mail that froze Mail?
I had 7 junk mails come in this morning, 5 went straight to junk and 2 more I junked.
When I clicked on the Junk folder to empty it, it froze Mail and I can't click on anything, I had to force quit Mail and re-open it. When it re-opens the Junk folder is selected and it is froze, I can't do anything.
I repaired permissions, it did nothing.
I re-booted my computer, on opening Mail the In folder was selected, when I selected Junk, again, it locks up Mail and I can't select them to delete them?
Anyone know how I can delete these Junk mails from my Junk folder without having to open Mail to do it as it would appear this will be the only solution to the problem.

Hi Nigel
If you hold the Shift key when opening the mail app, it will start up without any folders selected & no emails showing. Hopefully this will enable you to start Mail ok.
Then from the Mail menus - choose Mailbox-Erase Junk Mail . The problem mail should now be in the trash. If there's nothing you want to retain from the Trash, you should now choose Mailbox- Erase Deleted Messages....
If you need to double-check the Trash for anything you might want to retain, then view the Trash folder first, before using Erase Junk Mail & move anything you wish to keep to another folder.
The shift key starts Mail in a sort of Safe mode.

James Send to Junk Mail

Hello , i am using james 2.2.0 installed on a server with a online DNS , it recives mails properly , but when i try to send emails ( also when using Authenticated SMTP) , mail go to junk mails ( as hotmail and yahoo) , When i use Outlook express outside the server to send mail i get the following error :
The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[email protected]'. Subject 'hahahhaha', Account: 'mytrans-port.com', Server: 'mytrans-port.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 - Requested action not taken: relaying denied', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79
here is my config.xml , Thanks
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE config [
<!ENTITY listserverConfig SYSTEM "../conf/james-listmanager.xml">
<!ENTITY listserverStores SYSTEM "../conf/james-liststores.xml">
<!ENTITY fetchmailConfig SYSTEM "../conf/james-fetchmail.xml">
]>











<config>
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      <postmaster>Postmaster@localhost</postmaster>
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      <servernames autodetect="true" autodetectIP="true">

         <servername>mytrans-port.com</servername>
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      <usernames ignoreCase="true" enableAliases="true" enableForwarding="true"/>
      
      
      <inboxRepository>
         <repository destinationURL="file://var/mail/inboxes/" type="MAIL"/>
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            <host>mail.mydomain.com</host>
            
            <user>username</user>
            
            <password>pass</password>
            
            <interval>600000</interval>
        </fetch>
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      <threads> 10 </threads>
      
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         <mailetpackage>org.apache.james.transport.mailets</mailetpackage>
      </mailetpackages>
      <matcherpackages>
         <matcherpackage>org.apache.james.transport.matchers</matcherpackage>
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      <processor name="root">
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="RelayLimit=30" class="Null"/>
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="InSpammerBlacklist=query.bondedsender.org"
                 class="ToProcessor">
           <processor> transport </processor>
         </mailet>
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="InSpammerBlacklist=dnsbl.njabl.org"
                 class="ToProcessor">
           <processor> spam </processor>
           <notice>550 Requested action not taken: rejected - see http://njabl.org/ </notice>
         </mailet>
         <mailet match="InSpammerBlacklist=relays.ordb.org"
                 class="ToProcessor">
           <processor> spam </processor>
           <notice>550 Requested action not taken: rejected - see http://www.ordb.org/ </notice>
         </mailet>
         
         
         
         <mailet match="All" class="ToProcessor">
            <processor> transport </processor>
         </mailet>
      </processor>
      
      
      
      
      
      
      <processor name="error">
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="All" class="ToRepository">
            <repositoryPath> file://var/mail/error/</repositoryPath>
            
            
         </mailet>
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      <processor name="transport">
        
        
        
         
         <mailet match="RecipientIsLocal" class="LocalDelivery"/>
         
         
         <mailet match="HostIsLocal" class="ToProcessor">
            <processor> local-address-error </processor>
            <notice>550 - Requested action not taken: no such user here</notice>
         </mailet>

         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="RemoteAddrNotInNetwork=127.0.0.1" class="ToProcessor">
            <processor> relay-denied </processor>
            <notice>550 - Requested action not taken: relaying denied</notice>
         </mailet>
         
         
         <mailet match="All" class="RemoteDelivery">
            <outgoing> file://var/mail/outgoing/ </outgoing>
            
            
            
            
            <delayTime> 5 minutes </delayTime>
            <delayTime> 10 minutes </delayTime>
            <delayTime> 45 minutes </delayTime>
            <delayTime> 2 hours </delayTime>
            <delayTime> 3 hours </delayTime>
            <delayTime> 6 hours </delayTime>
            <maxRetries> 25 </maxRetries>
            
            <deliveryThreads> 1 </deliveryThreads>
            
            <sendpartial>false</sendpartial>
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
         </mailet>
      </processor>
      
      
      
      <processor name="spam">
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="All" class="ToRepository">
            <repositoryPath>file://var/mail/spam/</repositoryPath>
            
            
            
            
            
         </mailet>
      </processor>
      
      <processor name="local-address-error">
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="All" class="ToRepository">
            <repositoryPath> file://var/mail/address-error/</repositoryPath>
            
            
         </mailet>
      </processor>
      
      
      <processor name="relay-denied">
         
         
         
         
         
         <mailet match="All" class="ToRepository">
            <repositoryPath>file://var/mail/relay-denied/</repositoryPath>
            
            
         </mailet>
      </processor>
   </spoolmanager>
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   <dnsserver>
      <servers>
         
         
         
      </servers>
      
      
      <autodiscover>true</autodiscover>
      <authoritative>false</authoritative>
   </dnsserver>
   <remotemanager>
      <port>4555</port>
      
      
      
      
      <handler>
         
         
         
         
         
         <helloName autodetect="true">myMailServer</helloName>
         <administrator_accounts>

            
            <account login="username" password="password"/>
         </administrator_accounts>
         <connectiontimeout> 60000 </connectiontimeout>
      </handler>
   </remotemanager>
    
    
    
   <pop3server enabled="true">
      
      
      <port>110</port>
      
      
      
      
      <handler>
         
         
         
         
         
         <helloName autodetect="true">myMailServer</helloName>
         <connectiontimeout>120000</connectiontimeout>
      </handler>
   </pop3server>
    
    
    
   <smtpserver enabled="true">
      
      <port>25</port>
      
      
      
      
      <handler>
         
         
         
         
         
         <helloName autodetect="true">myMailServer</helloName>
         <connectiontimeout>360000</connectiontimeout>
         
         

         
         <authorizedAddresses>127.0.0.0/8</authorizedAddresses>
         
         
         
         
         
         
         <maxmessagesize>0</maxmessagesize>
      </handler>
   </smtpserver>
    
    
    
    
   <nntpserver enabled="true">
   
      
      
      <port>119</port>
      
      
      
      
      <handler>
         
         
         
         
         
         <helloName autodetect="true">myMailServer</helloName>
         <co

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
<mailet match="RemoteAddrNotInNetwork=127.0.0.1" class="ToProcessor">
<processor> relay-denied </processor>
<notice>550 - Requested action not taken: relaying denied</notice>
</mailet>
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

Junk Mail Filtering - is it me or is it just rubbish?

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but didn't have the patience to wade through all the threads. Hopefully someone can help...
Frankly, I think the filtering on Mail (using 3.5 with OSX 10.5.6) is hopeless. Simply put, I've tried configuring it every which way in Preferences but the same issues persist. The main one being that when I configure to "exclude" those in my address book and/or previous recipients list from junk mail filtering ...people in my address book (SPECIFICALLY ME) still end up in the junk mail folder.
I have 2 accounts: Mail.com (POP3) and Gmail (IMAP) and I use an iPhone for mobile access. And I have a work email. All three are in my address card in Address Book.
Yet whenever I send myself (or anyone else) an email -- either from work or from my iPhone or even from within Mail -- it still ends up in the junk mail folder.
I think the problem is that Mail's filtering doesn't look at email addresses. It must look at how the name is set up??? i.e., LAST FIRST or FIRST LAST, etc. and when any of these don't match up it puts it into junk mail folder????
It just seems rubbish to me. Outlook had much more sophisticated filtering options\rule set up.
Anyone got any ideas on how to solve this? Thanks.

Mulder wrote:
If you have multiple email addresses in your card in Address Book, which messages are going to Junk, and what email address was used?
All three emails go to junk. My work to either personal address. Gmail to Mail and Mail to Gmail emails all go to junk
Have you tried setting up the Junk filter so that:
If any of the following conditions are met:
*Sender is not in my Address Book*
*Sender is not in my Previous Recipients*
Message is Junk Mail
Perform the following actions:
*Move message to mailbox: (Junk mailbox On My Mac)*
Yep. Tried that. Still didn't work. Even tried ticking "not junk" on each of the several tests I've sent myself -- and then re-sent more tests, which still ended up in junk????
As I said, I've tried virtually every possible configuration of boxes ticked and unticked and nothing...
My latest setting (using your advanced rules above) were:
Enable Junk Mail - ticked
When Junk Mail arrives - 'perform custom actions'
Msgs Exempt - In address book and previous recipients both ticked. Use my full name unticked
Trust ISP headers - unticked
Filter before applying rules - have tried this both ticked and unticked... same result
Thanks,
The Smoking Man
PS - Should add that when others send me email to the Gmail or Mail accounts they properly go to inbox, not junk. It's just when I send myself something (anything, really)...

I am having a problem with mail. In my junk mail folder I have two messages which I drag to trash and empty. Within a few minutes the messages are back in junk mail folder

I am having a problem with mail. I am attempting to trash junk mail. Each time I do this and a while later I find the junk mail has not been discarded and is back in junk mil folder.

Hi tony paine,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
iCloud: Keeping the Junk folder consistent between iCloud Mail and OS X Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4911
Cheers,
- Judy

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