TMUG Forum » Topic: Junk Mail http://www.tmug.org/forum/topic/junk-mail this is TMUG's forum - a place to talk with other TMUGers en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 13:48:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.tmug.org/forum/search.php John Tracy on "Junk Mail" http://www.tmug.org/forum/topic/junk-mail#post-485 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:13:37 +0000 John Tracy 485@http://www.tmug.org/forum/

Chris wrote:I am consistently marking junk mail as junk and yet there are always a some junk letters that get through, and the ones that get through seem to be more or less identical to ones that I have previously mark as junk.

Yeah, me too. What I've noticed is that there is some (minor) change in some mail identifier. I surmise that spammers continually morph themselves to get around spam blockers.

David Ross on "Junk Mail" http://www.tmug.org/forum/topic/junk-mail#post-484 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:09:53 +0000 David Ross 484@http://www.tmug.org/forum/

You have to understand that the SPAM generators make money by working hard to fool the built in SPAM traps in email clients. Very hard.

Be careful on filtering out emails with long FROM addresses. Many of the receipts I get for online purchases and bills for things have very long return addresses.

Chris Deschene on "Junk Mail" http://www.tmug.org/forum/topic/junk-mail#post-483 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:08:50 +0000 Chris Deschene 483@http://www.tmug.org/forum/

I am consistently marking junk mail as junk and yet there are always a some junk letters that get through, and the ones that get through seem to be more or less identical to ones that I have previously mark as junk.

Any suggestions? I am using Apple Mail and 10.7.2.

Also, is there a way of writing a mail rule that identifies as junk anything coming from an address that is more than 20 characters? Many of the return addresses are really long - 40-50 characters.

Thanks,
Chris