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Sat Feb 5, 2022, 04:13 PM

Feb 2022

Note: Server-side spam filtering is generally the best option as it removes the spam from your Inbox before you download it. Smartphone users won't waste data downloading spam (unless they look in the junk mail folder from their phone); on the desktop side, with an IMAP account, Outlook will sync the Junk mail folder, making it easy to review.

I'll spend more time at the server end ... webmail.compuserve.com ... and see what I can do there.

But what is plaguing me most is that unsubscribe works (that's good) and that takes only a moment (though I keep notes, sigh and that takes awhile), but anyway, a day or two later I'm on another email list with a different email address. I don't know if that's caused by me unsubscribing (to get put on another list), or if I'm getting put on new lists anyway.

In other words, black-listing addresses one at a time is no quicker than unsubscribing from a list one at a time...

Thanks again.

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Being spammed to death by one financial newsletter after another [View all] progree Feb 2022 OP

Get a clean start - I use Goonch Feb 2022 #1

Seems a little drastic to change my email address, and I don't want to have to progree Feb 2022 #2

When I get unwanted email, PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2022 #3

Thanks -- what do you mean when you say "report it as spam"? Does that stop the next progree Feb 2022 #4

Whenever I report an email as spam, PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2022 #9

"I almost never bother to look at the spam folder." progree Feb 2022 #12

I don't use Outlook, so that's important. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2022 #15

"It also sounds like you get vastly more actual spam," well, until Dec 25, only about 2 a day progree Feb 2022 #19

Managing Junk E-mail Folder in Outlook 2010 Goonch Feb 2022 #5

Thanks, that is very nicely formatted, I've tried the Block Sender thing progree Feb 2022 #6

Try this: discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2022 #7

A little more info please. LPBBEAR Feb 2022 #8

I use Outlook 2010. It in turn accesses webmail.compuserve.com progree Feb 2022 #10

Perhaps this will help LPBBEAR Feb 2022 #11

Thanks! /nt progree Feb 2022 #13

"Junk Email Filtering isn't Working in Outlook" Goonch Feb 2022 #14

Thanks! -- Interesting: progree Feb 2022 #16

Thought you may have missed this discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2022 #17

Thanks much - yes, I did look at it. It sounds like essentially making a huge white list progree Feb 2022 #18

You're welcome discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2022 #20