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Gmail Spam Filter settings [migrated]
I'm fighting a spam mail sender for more than 3 months. I receive every day the last 3 months nasty sexual messages to my Gmail account.
First of all I think it's a huge shame that after 3 month Gmail ...
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Does SORBS (DNSBL) contains domain names?
I’m researching SORBS (Spam and Open Relay Blocking System) and its function in DNS-based Blackhole Lists (DNSBLs).
My question is straightforward: Is SORBS limited to storing only IP addresses, or ...
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What is X-Google-Original-From used for?
In connection with:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/763097/101935
I am looking to understand what the use and purpose of X-Google-Original-From actually is.
From what I see, I think I've managed to ...
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Outlook: Is it possible to define a filter rule comparing a number in a header field?
In the mail I receive in Outlook, some service provider has set up a SPAM filter with a comparatively low level, tagging the subject with [SPAM] when the message is not SPAM in several cases.
In the ...
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Can I create rule to filter all mails to spam except [email protected] in Outlook [duplicate]
In Outlook I want to create a rule that filters or forwards all emails except the one from my organisation domain (eg.
***@company.com). Any rule which can block or move to spam others apart from ...
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SpamAssasin TLD blocking
I have configured spamassasin in my hosting to block some spammer TLDs.
The blacklist email is just as this:
@.asia
@.bar
@.best
@.bid
@.buzz
@.cam
@.casa
@.cloud
@.club
@.cyou
@.diet
@.digital
@.fun
@...
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How to automatically recognize & move spam emails
There are lots of spam emails in my inbox, but there are also several normal emails and other useful emails among them.
Is there any way to automatically recognize spam emails and move them to another ...
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Do spammers actually make subject lines such as "[SPAM]"? Or is this added by some filter?
I have a Gmail account. Today, I had received a spam message whose subject line was actually "[SPAM]". Is this some new kind of "trick" by spammers, or was the subject line determined to be 100% sure ...
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How to filter an email type to prevent it from occupying even the spam folder? [closed]
I receive daily messages in my Gmail with the same subject: "Sales Boom".
Gmail correctly detects these messages as spam and sends them correctly to the spam folder.
Even so, I would like to know if ...
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Spam Filter Blocking or something on users side of things?
Spam Filter is designated some email as blocked. This sender has sent us email in the past. The reason it was blocked was:
"Domain of tbu****s@mc**-ar**.com does not designate 54.2*8.***.9 as ...
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How to effectively filter spam emails that have two '@' symbols in the address?
Apologies if this has been addressed before. We are seeing a companywide uptick in spam emails with attachments that use the following syntax for the 'From' email address (I apologize again that this ...
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How can I filter email messages in Alpine v2.03 email client?
In my school, our web admin gave us a text-based email client to manage our inbox. This client is called Alpine. Its productive version is 2.03.
We have a lot of spam in our inbox, but I cannot ask ...
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How can I filter emails by IP in Thunderbird?
I use Thunderbird for my email.
As of lately, I'm constantly receiving plenty of spam from the same block of IP addresses. I cannot block them at the firewall (neither my own PC's firewall, nor the ...
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MS Outlook: Delete mail when manually marked as junk
When email fails the junk filter and shows up in the inbox, if one marks it as junk, it still goes into the junk folder. It would be nice if that action would cause the message to actually get deleted,...
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Why procmail didn't match this rule?
I have the following rule to send all emails with suspicious attachments to a dedicated folder:
# Emails with attachments
:0
* ^Content-Type: multipart/
{
:0 B
* ^Content-Type: application/(zip|x-...
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Is there some way to prevent my e-mail account to receive so much spam?
I had one e-mail account that I used to register at many websites. This account started to receive several spam emails that I would classify as:
Blatantly spam: those are nicely filtered by gmail, ...
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Thunderbird (31.6) does not filter by reply-to email address
I have recently received SPAM where I'd like the given reply-to address to be the filter criterion.
However, Thunderbird 31.6 doesn't offer a "Reply-To" in the dropdown for filtering:
Note that ...
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Emails from my domain treated as spam by Gmail and Outlook [duplicate]
I know that this question asked multiple times before but I have a little bit different situation.
In Brief:
I have reverse DNS, PTR records, SPF records, DKIM 1024-bit key, IP not blacklisted, ...
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In Outlook 2007 is it possible to whitelist a domain plus all possible subdomains?
I frequently receive mail from a domain which uses a newly-generated subdomain tree in the From address each time, e.g.
[email protected]
[email protected]
The subdomain names ...
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My email address is constantly listed by SORBS and barracudacentral, how can I remove my email definitly from those services?
I have removed the affected IPs several times from SORBS and BarracudaCentral. But is still listing me through different IPs. It's quite annoying to remove my IP several times per month. The curious ...
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How can I make an Outlook 2010 rule fire for a new message before it is identified as Junk and put in the Junk E-mail folder?
I'm running Outlook 2010 against Exchange 2010.
There are some messages that Outlook identifies as junk (or perhaps it's Exchange identifying them as junk, because I know that with Exchange 2010 and ...
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Thunderbird: filters don't match links
I use filters to remove undesirable messages (in addition to the integrated spam filter).
My problem is, since years (so with every Thunderbird release I ever had, even the current one which is up to ...
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Mail from Gmail users go to junk mail and they should not
I have my Outlook express junk mail filters set nearly as low as possible, i.e., only the most obvious junk mail goes there. Yet numerous legitimate e-mails sent from other people's gmail accounts end ...
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Looking for spam mails [closed]
I am looking for a bundle of spam mails to use with my experiments with Bayesian spam filtering.
Is there any resource for this or does anyone have a bundle to share with me?
Something around 4-6gb ...
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Automatically give new email address only to humans
I have an old email address that I don't use any more, say [email protected]. This address gets loads of spam, but also the occasional email from an old friend. I have set up a new address, say new@...
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