Questions tagged [spam-prevention]
For questions related to preventing unsolicited junk messages 'spam' from reaching the intended recipient.
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Gmail Spam Filter settings
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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Intercept all the Spam messages in Gmail before they're delivered to Spam folder
I want to filter out some specific (many conditions) messages that are (ultimately) stored in Spam folder in Gmail. However, according to this article I cannot use in:spam, is:spam or label:spam ...
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Outlook Online rule not deleting emails from sender starting with 'promotions@' - Landing in Junk folder instead
I have set up a rule in Outlook Online to automatically delete emails where the sender address starts with "promotions@". However, I still encounter that spam emails starting with "...
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Using wildcards to block GDrive sharing spam
I'm victim of Google Drive file sharing spam. To block single users every time they share is unsustainable, because account addresses keep changing. They all come from *.space, so I want to block all ...
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Multi-message anti-SPAM filter in Gmail
tl;dr: Is it possible to filter ("catch") message in Gmail, if the only repeatable pattern (the only common thing) is that such message always comes in three copies (sent to three different ...
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How do you block emails from unknown domains?
I am constantly getting emails from @xyz.dfg.cloud, @fou.vm.blah, and so on.
I was thinking of whitelisting domains like hotmail, outlook, gmail and block everything else.
I would like to apply a ...
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Is there a way to forward ONLY spam messages in GMail?
I'm trying to create a filter that would automatically forward only the messages marked as spam to a company that signs you up for class actions against known spammy companies. I haven't found a way ...
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Google analytics account spam
there are tons of entries that are clearly spam
most of the links are from page.link
I blacked out the links so the hacker cannot figure out who I am posting this
when trying to delete them aka ...
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Using wildcards in gmail (trying to auto block spam emails that have no unsubscribe button)
About a year ago, I started getting emails form very random email addresses that are just extremely obvious to be spam. However, just blocking one single user account doesn't do the trick because the ...
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Gmail failing to catch spam from ml top-level domain - can I block all .ml addresses and send to spam?
Gmail is failing to catch many spam messages a day from addresses like "[email protected]" All are .ml addresses and have the same sender "name". I've reported ...
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Yahoo! Spam filter does not work
I believe the Yahoo! spam filter does not work. I handle multiple Yahoo! accounts via IMAP / SMTP. When I receive an email that should go to Inbox and goes to Spam, I move it from Spam to Inbox (via ...
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How to prevent messages from a Google Group going to the Spam folder?
I use a Google Group to manage a large course, with many students and teachers. Last year it worked fine. But this year, I noticed that most messages sent by students to the group address, are marked ...
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How to filter messages that are sent/cc'ed to a specific email address?
Does anyone know how to filter spam messages that are cc'ed or otherwise sent to another (specific) email address besides mine?
I hesitate to post this question on StackOverflow because spammers have ...
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Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that will depend on spam classification?
I want to autodelete any email that is classified by Gmail as spam and contains text "Bitcoin".
But trying to make filter like is:spam Bitcoin get me a message:
Filter searches containing &...
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How long does it take Gmail to train its SPAM filters?
tl;dr Gmail keeps marking emails as a SPAM even though I have received 100+ of them so far in the past 2,5 month and even though I've clicked "Not a spam" about hundred of times for each and ...
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