Excessive Spam
Is anyone else as annoyed as I am at the amount of spam we get in our Cox e-mail accounts every day? I get about 10 times as many spam e-mails every day as I do real e-mails. I've tried everything:...
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They don't have any solutions other than to block the senders and forward all spam to "spamreport@cox.net." But this does nothing.
"Block senders" only sends email from individually selected senders to Spam. A better solution would be to select known spam domains or common spam account names and block all of those with a Filter Rule. If you look through Spam you've received, you'il probably see a large number from newsletter@<some domain>. You should write the following Filter Rule:
Condition: From Contains newsletter Action: Discard
That one rule should block a significant amount of Spam and using "Discard", you'll never see them at all.
You can add additional rules with differrent account names or domains.
The problem with filter "Contains newsletter Action: Discard" is that many legitimate senders are lazy and use "newsletter@xxxyyy.com" or some other domain. So "Action: File into: Spam" at least saves the message for review. Spam truly is the work of evil, feeble "minds" who hate hard work. Tough problem to resolve.
many legitimate senders are lazy and use "newsletter@xxxyyy.com" or some other domain
My Outlook account has received literally thousands of emails from newsletter@ accounts and 99.99% of them have been Junk Email. I found one such account from which I last received email in 2013. But, I regularly received email from that sender and could have written a "Save" rule for it. I receive 30-40 Junk Emails per day with most of them from a newsletter@ account. Outlook intercepts them with Junk Email rules before I can use an Inbox rule to block them.
If you have a contact that sends email with that address, write a higher priority rule for that account with Action "Save". You can "File into" Spam if you really want to review all the rest of them. But, Cox Spam settings would probably send them to Spam anyway, so that would defeat the purpose of the rule. (I say probably because it's been months since I've seen Spam in my Webmail account).
If Outlook had this Filter Rule capability, my Junk Email problem would be over. Webmail's Filter Rules capabilities are much better than Outlook's Rules.
