Spam filter at .mac level

I am getting spammed by one source (exactly the same style message, but no consistent ip) and want to block it but cannot get any response from anyone at .mac. The messages are consistent and I can send them to my junk folder, but I would rather not get them in the first place. Is there a service out there that can help with this. I really don't want to change my email address. Thanks.

Spam is here to stay. The problem is too prolific. The only true way to avoid spam is to never let your email address get out.
sad but true.
Beavis2084

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Need help setting up the Spam Filter in Mail

Hi,
I tried so many times to set up my Spam filter in Mac OS Mail, without any success so far. Basically, I have 2 email accounts in Mail, one of them should only let mails through which have "Webmessage from" in their title. So I added the following rule in the Options (translated from German): 'Subject doesn't contain Webmessage from'. Additionally I also added 'Email is Advertisement' and I used 'fulfilling one of the following rules'. What this does, it it filters EVERYTHING and throws it into the junk. I also tried with other rules, as for example 'Sender is in previous receiver' and 'Email is not adressed to my full name', ... Mail just filter everything, everytime or nothing at all.
Can somebody please help me?

When you set up a mail filter, you can have multiple conditions before an action is taken. So, for example, if you want a rule to apply to one email address, set up the first condition where the 'to' is equal to the email address you want filtered. Click the plus sign next to it, and add the 'subject doesn't contain Webmessge from' condition. Above the 2 conditions, check 'all' of the following conditions. Then under perform the following actions, add two rules, one mark as read, and two move to junk or trash or wherever. That way, since it's marked as read, you never see it in any unread mail counts.

Can I set up a spam filter for my iPad like I have on my Mac?

Can I set up a spam filter for my iPad like I have on my Mac?

The Mac OS X Mail application has a "Junk" function that works locally, on the Mac, and just puts emails from previously designated "junk" addresses into a separete folder, so you don't have to wade thru all that spam in your Inbox. It's a very elegant and simple, local solution, that I dearly miss on iOS.
I did submit a request for it at Apple Feedback page.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Not happy w/ built in spam filter--recommendations?

Hi.
I have a client w/ 50 mail users who are not happy with the built-in spam filter on OS X server 10.4.8. It does catch a lot, but not enough for them. (I have flagged it at 3, and they still aren't happy).
So, is there either a software spam filter you recommend that runs on another machine (pc or mac, I don't really care, but client would prefer it run on a mac) or a hardware filter?
The two that came to my mind were (hardware) Barracuda or (software) ProxMox running on an old pc. I don't seem to be able to find a good software product running on OS X.
Thanks again.

The software built in to Mac OS X Server is actually very good, you just need to tweak it a little. You'll have to give up on the "Apple Server Admin" interface though and learn about configuring postfix, spamassassin and amavisd by hand.
First, tighten up postfix to not accept so much bad mail. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focusspampostfix/ has good (but not perfect) tutorial, keep in mind that some of this is already in place already (like the amavisd stuff he talks about near the end). Make changes one at a time and monitor the results for a few days, if you do something that is too strict you may block real mail (from terminal, "grep reject /var/log/mail.log" will show what's getting blocked).
Next, fix Spamassassin's bayesian learning which is misconfigured - see the posting by "pterobyte" at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=258593 - and set up the "junkmail" and "notjunkmail" accounts so you can forward spam and not-spam messages to train the bayesian filter (that's in the Apple documentation, except that it doesn't actually work if you don't fix the problem that pterobyte addresses).
Then do what everyone else suggested for installing SARE rules and rulesdujour, you should also follow the instructions at spamassassin.apache.org to set your own scores for different rules.

SPAM filter problems

All of a sudden, I'm getting tons of SPAM. It is coming on both my ISP mail account and my .mac account. I have set my preferences to filter all mail where the sender is not in my address book. I receive it anyway.
What's even more frustrating is that some mail where the sender IS in my address book (my daughter!) is being marked as SPAM by my filters. Huh?
I have tried checking the "trust my ISP" box and then I wasn't receiving about half my mail so I have now unchecked that box.
Any ideas?

Sounds like you have become the victim of what is called a dictionary attack by a spammer or spammers who use an automated program that guesses at email addresses with a particular domain.
The default junk mail rules under the Advanced tab are set up as follows:
If ALL of the following conditions are met:
Sender is not in my Address Book
Sender is not in my Previous Recipients
Message is not addresses to my Full Name
(and if) Message is Junk Mail - determined by the junk mail filter's "learned" settings by you marking a message as junk or not junk,
Move message to mailbox Junk.
Even if you have filter all mail where the sender is not in your Address Book, the message must still go thru the filter which does not mean the message will be automatically marked as junk.
Since your daughter's email address should be exempt from any junk mail filtering, something is wrong so I suggest doing the following first.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail and disable Junk Mail filtering.
Quit and re-launch the Mail.app and re-enable Junk Mail filtering.
IMO, I wouldn't adjust, add to or remove any of the default Junk Mail rules via the Advanced selection and allow the filter to do its thing. If disabling and re-enabling the Junk Mail filter does not resolve the problem, I suggest using the Reset feature which will reset the Junk Mail "learned" settings and you can keep Junk Mail set to automatic when doing so.
Regarding having problems with "Trust junk mail headers set by my ISP" selected, this indicates the spam filter at your ISP's incoming mail server is marking these received messages as spam which is called a false positive since the messages are valid.
I've never experienced any problems having this selected but if a valid message is marked as junk when received because of this, marking the message as Not Junk and moving it from the account's Junk Mailbox to the account's Inbox mailbox should prevent this from occurring again but it make take several "Not Junk" processes to "train" the filter.

Any talk of a SPAM filter?

Anyone heard about anyone developing a spam filter for the iPhone. It's really tedious deleting all this spam one at a time, when SpamSieve catches it all on my Macs...

Yes, and I don't need to be concerned about transferring my SpamSieve settings and learned settings from my computer to my iPhone. I access my .Mac account with the Mail application on my Mac as well as with the email client with my iPhone and this works for me. Not as easy with a POP account, but a POP account was not designed to be accessed with multiple email clients anyway.

No iPhone SPAM FILTER - why no iPhone SPAM FILTER?

I'm tired of spending 10 minutes a day deleting spam from my iPhone. Why doesn't the Junk Mail filter on my iMac synch up and work on my iPhone?

I'm not aware of any email client on a cell phone that includes a spam filter and if so, one that syncs all "learned" settings with the junk mail filter available with the email client used on a computer.
I access my MobileMe account with the Mail.app on my Mac and with the iPhone's Mail client. Since all server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account, and the Mail.app on my Mac includes a junk mail filter and is always launched and running, I have a remote junk mail filter for my iPhone.
The responsibility for this should be at the incoming mail server for the account anyway. This is like Microsoft placing all responsibility for security with antivirus software, which they pretty much do anyway, but shouldn't.

Why is Verizon limiting Spam Filter to only 50 entrees?

I've been with Verizon (first with DSL and now FIOS) for over 15 years.   Lately, the SPAM has gotten really out of hand and I have realized that the most powerful way to deal with it is to set-up the SETTINGS / E-MAIL OPTIONS / FILTERS inside the Verizon's Webmail website for each .NET account I have and use.
Believe me, it actully works but of course, the spammers keep changing the spelling of keywords to bypass the filter. I have had no problem to go in an add "new" keywords about once a week but just now, I got the shock of my life.
It seems that Verizon is limiting each email address to just 50 filters.   WHY??!?!?!?
It's not as it you can go logic entry for each keyword (meaning you can specify 10 words in each entry and us AND/OR logic). You need to use a phrase or just a single word per EACH filter entry.
How and whom do you suggest I contact to complain about this. I am considering writing the executive office if I have to.
This is just so wrong.   When I go in and add filter keywords, I am not taking up Verizon heck of a lot of Verizon's storage, nor am I taking up their time.
Can someone please tell me if I am missing anything and how can we all get involved in having them moving up the limitation from 50 to at least 200, if not 500!!!!
- A shocked Verizon user

I have been reading these discussions periodically for the past few months and subscribed today just to add my voice to the chorus of customers who find Verizon's silence and inaction on this issue inexcusable. Verizon email accounts are not free and every Verizon customer knows that we pay through the nose for Verizon FIOS service including the email. I view it as an insult to consantly see recommendations about "turning the spam filter on", "marking not caught messages as SPAM" and "forwarding not caught messages to Verizon" when none of these actions changes anything as anyone who has done these for months can attest.
I too have been a Verizon customer for over a decade and only early this year became subjected to the massive onslaught of OBVIOUS spam. I understand and accept that the spammers change servers everyday and send out the same spam over and over. However, key word filtering does work so if key word filtering works at the end user level, why can't verizon do it at the server/source level? Needless to say I too was livid when I discovered that Verizon limited the number of filter rules one can make. So on the one hand they do minimal filtering (the only SPAM I see get caught is spam that has my username in the subject line and offers of male enhancement remidies), but limit the amount of filtering you can do. Unfortunately for us customers, as the old saying goes, Membership (in the monopoly club) has its privileges.

Spam - Cloudmark Desktop equivalent (spam filter addon)

I understand there are a lot of threads about spam, we all hate it and we all want to get rid of it... this thread is about finding a Cloudmark Desktop plugin equivalent for the MAC OS.
I'm a switcher, and with outlook on the pc i was able to use this nifty tool to get rid of spam for the most part. currently i end up with 200 spam emails on average per day using Mail on the mac. For a little while i've tried using the onboard spam learning filters, but i've stopped using them as i'm trying afraid of missing legit emails so i'm trying to find a solution much like I had before with Cloudmark.
Or... maybe the solution is a simple one... learn the Mail filers better?
Thank you for your time, and any help or light you can shine upon this everlasting subject.
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Rick,
In response to:
Mmmm, no I'm not here to teach you how to run a
public internet mail server
(public-to-the-internet).
You should have learned mailserver basics before you
started running a public server.
Horde and Squirrel are not mail servers. They are
WebMail or IMAP clients.
Email server software for Linux might be 'qmail',
'postfix'.
Correct, Horde etc. are my webmail clients. I mentioned these because I assumed you wanted to get in to the SpamAssassin and BoxTrapper configurations.
My mail server is exim 4.63.
SpamAssassin and BoxTrapper are both good. They will
very rarely let you "lose" mail, depending on your
configuration.
If you installed all these applications to work
side-by-side with your mailserver, I would have
expected more informed answers (But that's not bad!)
My apologies.
Filtering that happens on the server can solve much
of your 200-Junk-Mails-per-day.
You just have a lot to learn. And we're getting off
topic.
If I knew everything, I wouldn't be asking questions
We weren't wasting time.
You got some good suggestions about Cloudmark
replacements.
(spamfire, spamsieve)
We had a little chat about filtering being done on
the server.
We were starting to drift off the subject.
I was referring to not intending on wasting your personal time as some your responses seem a little rough around the edges.
You simply couldn't answer questions about your mail
server, that you should have known the answer for
(name of email server software, etc).
No biggie.
... Exim 4.63
Check my profile, and drop me a note off-list, if you
want some different tips or help with your server.
I appreciate the offer.
For anyone following this topic I've done the following:
- Decided not to purchase a third party spam filter addon at this time.
- Although I've looked in to server side SpamAssassin and BoxTrapper configurations, I've decided to not use either of these for now as I'm trying to teach Mac Mail's spam filter the ropes. I always hesitate to auto-delete emails in fear I might miss something. Being that I normally use Mac Mail, I'd have to sift through the **SPAM** mails generated by SpamAssassin anyways. As I'm teaching Mail to identify spam, I don't think counting one then the other would do anything more than confuse the process and make more work for me in the long run. (I could be wrong.)
- Using exclusively Mac Mail's spam filter I've manually sifted through over 7,000 spam messages in hopes to teach the software what I'm looking for it to identify.
- Of these 7,000 spam messages, I 'bounced' them all back using Mail... every one of them. This was done somewhat out of frustration, but if I understand this correctly spammers don't want to waste their time and resources emailing bad emails. By bouncing emails back to the source (if the spam email was valid) I'm hoping to get knocked off spam lists over time. I had a brief concern of server load, but everything was smooth. A drawback is many of the spam emails are not valid, so getting many returned mails is part of the process, and honestly it's worth it. (for me)
- I don't think my spam problem will ever go away entirely. I'll always have to manually scan all emails at least briefly. The hope is to get Mail's spam filter accurate so suspected spam is in a spam box, and my regular mail boxes are clean. When it's time to manually scan the junk mail box, in time it should be pretty quick.
Thank you to everyone's helpful responses, as Rick mentioned indeed I have much to learn!

Spam Filter totally swamps CPU

Server 10.4.11 running on a Dual 1ghz G4 Xserve, 2gb RAM and lots of free disk space; Totally standard install, nothing added. When I have the mail filter switched on the CPUs become totally swamped with activity. Checking in the Activity Monitor I can see that the big CPU user is a thread called clamscan (2 instances). I am fairly sure this the the thread that does the spam filtering because CPU activity drops when I turn filtering off.
What is going on? Why is it being so overwhelmed?

clamscan is non capable of handling anything but basic load. What you see is unfortunately "normal" behaviour on a stock install OS X 10.4.x Server.
You can try and lessen the load on your spam filter by implementing this: Frontline spam defense for Mac OS X Server.
And you can update ClamAV and use clamd by following this: Updating ClamAV on OS X Server 10.4.7-10.4.11
HTH,
Alex
Message was edited by: pterobyte

When i try to set up my icloud account the system says it is sending me an email to verify. I never get the email and it is not in my spam filter. How can i get set up??

when i try to set up my icloud account the system says it is sending me an email to verify. I never get the email and it is not in my spam filter. How can i get set up??

Make sure that your Apple ID is your email address and you do not have any other or old IDs associated with you. Go to www.appleid.apple.com and confirm this info. Make sure that the email address you are trying to sign up with is your primary one.

Is there a Spam filter for Mail? In iOS 5?

I haven't seen this question posted for a couple of years, so I'm curious if iOS 4 has addressed my concern. Can Mail for iPod Touch 4th Generation be set up with some sort of spam filter? I have very good filters associated with my various email accounts at their servers (Gmail, GoDaddy, Earthlink) but all of these accounts pass the spam through to my iPod.
Will this be fixed in iOS 5?
And also ... why do some messages not offer the "Trash Can" icon, but only the multiple button option to "Move to>Trash"?
Thanks

No. iOS5 isn't out yet. We don't know what's in it. But likely there isn't.

Filter at universe level is not working

Hi all,
I am using a filter at Universe level to exclude a list of customers and a couple of customers within the date range.
This works ok for a list of customers, but customers in the date range are not excluded.
Here is my filter in Universe:
@Select(Order Items\Customer No) NOT IN ('10114', '10116', '10119', '10178', '11111', '11118', '11119', '11142', '11150', '11152')
AND
(@Select(Order Items\Request Date) BETWEEN to_date('01/10/2011','mm/dd/yyyy') AND to_date('01/15/2011','mm/dd/yyyy') AND @Select(Order Items\Customer No) NOT IN ('11061','11062'))
Can somebody please let me know ehat am I doing wronng?
Regards,
RR

In this query you are saying the next:
1. You don't want the users that are in the first list
2. But you want the users whose date range is between 1/10/2011 and 1/15/2011
Is this what you want or you really dont want the users between that range?
Perhaps you should try this:
AND
(@Select(Order Items\Request Date) NOT BETWEEN to_date('01/10/2011','mm/dd/yyyy') AND to_date('01/15/2011','mm/dd/yyyy') AND @Select(Order Items\Customer No) NOT IN ('11061','11062'))
Edited by: PadawanGirl on Feb 4, 2011 10:48 PM
Edited by: PadawanGirl on Feb 4, 2011 10:49 PM

How do you set up your spam filter?

Greetings,
I have been fiddling with my spam filter for some time now and I still can't get it to work really good. I use the normal "Exempt if sender is in addressbook & Sender is in previous recipient but NOT "using my full name" because that seems to put everything in spam. I use the toggle "IF ALL CONDITIONS ARE MET". I also add the line "if message is junk mail" then move to trash.
The above does work but not real great.
Furthermore, I made up some more rules such as subject lines contain doctor etc and they work better.
Can someone post what they do in their basic junk mail filtering and custom rules to help me out? Also, when a piece of junk mail ends up by mistake in the junkmail box I click "not junkmail". This never returns the mail to the correct box and just sits there and I have to manually drag it. Is this correct?
//Cheers

Hello Julie.
Your junk filter appears to not be working properly. Try this first:
1. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail and disable junk mail filtering.
2. Quit Mail, then open it again.
3. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, enable junk mail filtering, and configure it however you wish -- I recommend you to leave it at the default Automatic settings.
4. Reset the junk filter database (Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset).

When i try to create Filter on aggregation level the system gives me error

Hi BI Guru's,
I am facing a problem BI - IP .
When i try to create Filter on aggregation level the system gives me follwoing error.
"Authorization check of component failed"
"You do not have authorisation for Add or Create".
"Could not create Filter "
Please let me know if have any solution for this
Thanks & Regards,
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