Emails from blocked senders

[Standpipe]

It's always seemed a bit mad to me that, in Mail, once a sender is "blocked", emails from them still come through and have to be manually deleted. I've tried to set up a rule to do this, but no joy.

 

[Fishrrman]

Could you use Mail.app's "rules" to create a rule that automatically DELETES incoming mail from certain addresses...? Then you would never even see the emails, even if they do "get by the block"...

 

[BrianBaughn]

It's better to set up rules/filters at your email provider's web portal.

 

[Standpipe]

Could you use Mail.app's "rules" to create a rule that automatically DELETES incoming mail from certain addresses...? Then you would never even see the emails, even if they do "get by the block"...

That's what I do at the moment but it's time consuming to have to set up a rule for every spammer - there are so many these days!

 

[Standpipe]

It's better to set up rules/filters at your email provider's web portal.

Ah, so if I log on to iCloud, I will get a different set of "things to do"? I always assumed the system on my iMac was the same as that in iCloud.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Ah, so if I log on to iCloud, I will get a different set of "things to do"? I always assumed the system on my iMac was the same as that in iCloud.

Yes…and the rules at the server will be applied to incoming emails before they reach any device.

Now that you've mentioned it's iCloud email I have to say that the available rules there are relatively skimpy. You can do what you asked about but I'm not sure if you can add multiple email addresses (or domains) to a single rule there or not.

 

[fiat]

That's what I do at the moment but it's time consuming to have to set up a rule for every spammer - there are so many these days!

I totally agree with OP. Why did Apple make such a useless feature in Mail?

 

[webbga]

I get a slew of junk emails that are the same, but each time they come from a slightly altered email address. Apple puts most of them into Junk and I manually move the others. It is impossible to filter everything unless you block everything not in your Contact List.

 

[fiat]

I get a slew of junk emails that are the same, but each time they come from a slightly altered email address. Apple puts most of them into Junk and I manually move the others. It is impossible to filter everything unless you block everything not in your Contact List.

The problem is I block the email senders and set to send them to the trash, but Mail still lets them through, not into the trash.

 

[webbga]

The problem is I block the email senders and set to send them to the trash, but Mail still lets them through, not into the trash.

I have mixed results with this. For example I get a slew purporting to be from McCaffee. I try to send it to the trash, but every one comes from a slightly altered email address, the subject has an extra letter, or there is a minor alteration so it does not match what I have blocked. I have stopped paying that much attention and now I just delete what comes in and am done with it. The junk comes in spurts. Several days last week I woke to 18-20 emails in my junk. this week I get only a few. Not worth my time to fight it.