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Mail: spam with no reply address. How to stop?
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bedfordshire, England UK
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I am getting spam emails that have no reply to address so I can't apply rules. Is there anything I can do to stop or just move to junk? It seems I am helpless to prevent these. I don't want to click unsubscribe for obvious reasons.
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OSX El Capitan
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Nobletucky
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Have you looked through the long header or the raw source views?
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Sorry, don't know what you mean. Please explain further.
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2001
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View > Message > Long Headers
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View > Message > Raw Source
These will give you an expanded view of the route the emails travel to get to you. Hopefully, you can find the originator.
Alternately, I have a rule running that might work for you. Any message where the From field does not contain @ is automatically trashed.
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Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
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That's an interesting rule.
I just click the Junk Mail button (Mark selected messages as Junk) and let Mail learn how to spot them. In recent versions of Mail, this button is a thumbs-down button. [ ]
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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I set that rule years ago. Now that I think about it, I believe I was getting "empty From field" spam, too.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Thanks for the replies and tips. Quite interesting and I will try these and post back, especially the rule with no @ in the name. This appeals because they don't get through to my inbox. I have been clicking junk and it has worked in so much as any new are marked as junk now, although including some that are not junk. You have to check them all.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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If your mail provider supports server-side rules, putting a rule like this there would be better so that this applies to all devices that access this account.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Originally Posted by Thorzdad
Alternately, I have a rule running that might work for you. Any message where the From field does not contain @ is automatically trashed.
Thanks ... it worked.
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