yellowtriumph
18th Oct 2019, 14:50
As the years roll by, so the amount of spam increases. It does become annoying doesn’t it. But then I had a breakthrough, when I looked at the email addresses from which the spam was being sent I noticed a pattern. If I looked at say 3 typical spam emails the send addresses were, for example:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
I’m sure you can see the pattern - no matter how random the send email addresses were they always contained the phrase “.icu”.
I use Microsoft Home and Office 2010. I set up a simple ‘Rule’ that looks at the senders email address and if it sees “.icu” the email is immediately deleted - not sent to the deleted folder, it is deleted. My spam email count dropped to virtually zero, often in fact to actually zero for weeks on end.
Now, these spam senders are no fools and after a couple of months they change that bit of the address to something else, say:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
So, as soon as I get even a single spam email I set up an additional Rule to catch them. This takes all of 30 seconds or less and the effect lasts for months again.
So far so good. The above method works fine on my laptop at home so I thought I’d transfer it to emails on my wife’s mobile as she seems to be plagued by these damn things, So, I downloaded the Microsoft Outlook app from the Apple App Store and ran it. To my disappointment although this version of the app allows you to set up ‘Rules’ it does not seem to have the ability to set up a Rule to analyse senders email addresses and delete them if a certain word is detected.
Does anyone know of a simple iPhone mail app that allows this facility? BTW we run POP not IMAP if that matters. I hope this may help some others here too.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
I’m sure you can see the pattern - no matter how random the send email addresses were they always contained the phrase “.icu”.
I use Microsoft Home and Office 2010. I set up a simple ‘Rule’ that looks at the senders email address and if it sees “.icu” the email is immediately deleted - not sent to the deleted folder, it is deleted. My spam email count dropped to virtually zero, often in fact to actually zero for weeks on end.
Now, these spam senders are no fools and after a couple of months they change that bit of the address to something else, say:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
So, as soon as I get even a single spam email I set up an additional Rule to catch them. This takes all of 30 seconds or less and the effect lasts for months again.
So far so good. The above method works fine on my laptop at home so I thought I’d transfer it to emails on my wife’s mobile as she seems to be plagued by these damn things, So, I downloaded the Microsoft Outlook app from the Apple App Store and ran it. To my disappointment although this version of the app allows you to set up ‘Rules’ it does not seem to have the ability to set up a Rule to analyse senders email addresses and delete them if a certain word is detected.
Does anyone know of a simple iPhone mail app that allows this facility? BTW we run POP not IMAP if that matters. I hope this may help some others here too.