Advice to end spam and junk mails
Unsubscribe seems to make it worse. Both Hotmail (Outlook) accounts are now receiving the same e-mails from the same senders.
Many of these senders are @ Yahoo but their user name is a mix of letters and numbers that rarely make sense. I can not block Yahoo domain because Yahoo is a real domain that millions of trusted people can use.
We can create rules for deletion and we can block. But, these actions are not helping much at all.
What can be done besides changing passwords?
Does Outlook have a limit of how many e-mails can be blocked?
We can block 20 a day forever based on the frequency.
If Microsoft has a limit them endless blocking does have an end.
Our personal account (non forums, non Ebay, etc) has a spam filter and they send mine out on Mondays .each week there is over 100. These are in addition to the ones on our two Outlook accounts
Many of these senders are @ Yahoo but their user name is a mix of letters and numbers that rarely make sense. I can not block Yahoo domain because Yahoo is a real domain that millions of trusted people can use.
We can create rules for deletion and we can block. But, these actions are not helping much at all.
What can be done besides changing passwords?
Does Outlook have a limit of how many e-mails can be blocked?
We can block 20 a day forever based on the frequency.
If Microsoft has a limit them endless blocking does have an end.
Our personal account (non forums, non Ebay, etc) has a spam filter and they send mine out on Mondays .each week there is over 100. These are in addition to the ones on our two Outlook accounts
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Go to your webmail accounts and into the options and look up the spam / junk mail options. All web mail have these.
Make sure the filter is ON and blacklist addresses instead of unsubscribing.
Consider using Mail.com as your main email ISP. $30 per year is not expensive and their spam filter is top notch. I have been using them for 2 decades.
Make sure the filter is ON and blacklist addresses instead of unsubscribing.
Consider using Mail.com as your main email ISP. $30 per year is not expensive and their spam filter is top notch. I have been using them for 2 decades.
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Does anyone know how many domains can be blocked by Outlook dot com (which replaced Hotmail)?
When messages are in the junk box we can block them.
When they are in the inbox we can create a rule for them to be deleted.
John,
If you mean this filter (see below) it could take years to get an accurate list of our safe senders. Many are safe senders but we really can not make a list of all of them until we get a message from them this week, next month, or next year.
I've never had a junk mail problem anywhere close to this until this year. I have two Hotmail accounts and in #2 now receiving messages from senders that were only in account #1. So, somehow they have gotten both of the e-mail addresses.
Our ISP has a junk program and it works well. It captures about 125 a week and we go to the dashboard to glance them, over to make sure a good message was called junk by their filter. Once we found a message from a church and another from our credit union so their filter is not 100% but maybe 99% effective.
When messages are in the junk box we can block them.
When they are in the inbox we can create a rule for them to be deleted.
John,
If you mean this filter (see below) it could take years to get an accurate list of our safe senders. Many are safe senders but we really can not make a list of all of them until we get a message from them this week, next month, or next year.
I've never had a junk mail problem anywhere close to this until this year. I have two Hotmail accounts and in #2 now receiving messages from senders that were only in account #1. So, somehow they have gotten both of the e-mail addresses.
Our ISP has a junk program and it works well. It captures about 125 a week and we go to the dashboard to glance them, over to make sure a good message was called junk by their filter. Once we found a message from a church and another from our credit union so their filter is not 100% but maybe 99% effective.
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Thanks and good luck getting rid of Spam. BIG problem, so do all you can to filter it out.
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