How I am dealing with spam
for reasons I am not quite sure I have started getting inundated with spam starting a couple years ago. prior to that I rarely got any. whatever the reason I have been trying to use cox's horrible spam filtering. currently this is my strategy: create a "white list" filter labeled "ignore spam filters" this is a list of from addresses/email domains with the action of keep and do not process subsequent rules. create filters for the from field, and other fields that contain words that I am certain no one I know, and no company I know will use, and/or contain words and phrases/misspellings mangled fonts etc that I am certain no one I know uses. this rule is set to REJECT with reason: "553: account doesn't exist" 553 is an actual error code for a mailbox that does not exist. my hope is spam and phishing software may receive this error and remove my email address. either way I won't get the email. create a filter for all other words and phrases that goes to a folder I created that is not the spam folder to see what filters are working, and what is being filtered by cox, also to catch any false positives to add to the white list.515Views1like13CommentsWhy aren't replies to my posts in these forums ever to be found in Cox mail?
First, a confession that I don't use Cox email. At all. Ever. For me it's just like the phone service I pay for with still no telephonic device in my residence---but without this extra "benefit" feature my Cox bill would be substantially higher than it is. That said, as a regular visitor to the forums here I find it odd, that even though I've set up my Cox email account to receive notifications of replies to posts made here on the forums, despite having checked the box below all forum posts designating "Email me replies to this post", they are nowhere to be found in my Cox mail. I will also admit that it isn't too great an effort to check in on these forums to discover that there are, in fact, replies to questions/issues/posts made here. It might also be that I am misinformed or naïve in the belief in my expectation that replies would automatically be forwarded to my Cox email account. Cox App Suite UI version: 7.8.2 Rev28 Server version: 7.8.2-Rev35 2016-2020 OX Software GmbH A couple of other questions which may or may not have any relevance to this topic but of which I am, as a Cox paid subscriber, curious about: while in: myemail.cox.net/appsuite/Inbox/Common setting there is a box, checked, with "Ask for mailto link registration" What specifically does that setting do? Also, while in the "Edit mail account" account setting, UNchecked is a box labeled "Use unified mail for this account". What does this setting do?5.6KViews1like5Comments
Your Mailbox Is Approaching Its Quota!!
I'm getting this message regularly. For some reason my folders in Outlook are synced to folders in Cox Mail. Whenever I intentionally save an email in an Outlook folder it saves it in Cox Mail. I do not want to delete these emails. They are important to me. I'm afraid if I delete emails from my Cox Mail folders they will also be deleted from my Outlook folders. How do I un-sync my Outlook from Cox Mail so I don't exceed my Cox Mail quota?2.1KViews0likes0Comments
