Thats Not My Email Address!!!

[John Doe 57]

I have been getting other peoples mail for a little over 3 weeks now. Here is the deal:

My Email Address: gmbean@xxxxxxxx.xxx

I Receive A Message To: gamboawilmer@hotmail.com

There are over 50 senders and it seems that it is a computer that is making these messages. There are huge misspellings and what's worse is that these emails are all sexually orientated. Thank goodness that there are no pictures! But I didn't sign up for anything and I just started getting these emails all of a sudden.

Each email sender is different (different address) and I have made over 30 rules in Mail Preferences to simply delete any mail from the sender(s) But I get a couple new senders every day. I' am going to have over 100 rules if this continues!

Thanks.

 

[r.j.s]

You're getting them because your email address is a BCC.

 

[BlueRevolution]

There's no need to use rules. In Mail, go to Preferences -> Junk Mail and set things up like the following image. Then you can click the "Mark selected messages as Junk" button on the toolbar whenever an offending message appears. Mail is pretty good at figuring these things out.

 

[John Doe 57]

Mail does not recognize it as junk mail. Is there a way around BCC?

 

[BlueRevolution]

Mail does not recognize it as junk mail.

That's why you mark junk messages as such to train Mail's filter to recognize unwanted messages. It learns.

Is there a way around BCC?

No.

 

[Tumbleweed666]

I have been getting other peoples mail for a little over 3 weeks now. Here is the deal:

My Email Address: deleted

I Receive A Message To: deleted

There are over 50 senders and it seems that it is a computer that is making these messages. There are huge misspellings and what's worse is that these emails are all sexually orientated. Thank goodness that there are no pictures! But I didn't sign up for anything and I just started getting these emails all of a sudden.

Each email sender is different (different address) and I have made over 30 rules in Mail Preferences to simply delete any mail from the sender(s) But I get a couple new senders every day. I' am going to have over 100 rules if this continues!

Thanks.

I really really REALLY hope your actual email address isnt the first one you posted here or you will be getting a ton more :-(

If it is, edit your message to remove the email addy.

 

[John Doe 57]

I really really REALLY hope your actual email address isnt the first one you posted here or you will be getting a ton more :-(

Damn. I will edit it NOW!

That's why you mark junk messages as such to train Mail's filter to recognize unwanted messages. It learns.

Thank you!!! I'll give it a go!

How ironic:

 

[r.j.s]

How coincidental:

It's a coincidence, not irony.

Anyway, you don't need rules for each sender, just identify the mail as junk and let Mail do its thing.

BCC is a sender's option, you have no control over it.

 

[John Doe 57]

It's a coincidence, not irony.

Anyway, you don't need rules for each sender, just identify the mail as junk and let Mail do its thing.

BCC is a sender's option, you have no control over it.

Alright, Thanks!

 

[Tumbleweed666]

It's a coincidence, not irony.

Anyway, you don't need rules for each sender, just identify the mail as junk and let Mail do its thing.

BCC is a sender's option, you have no control over it.

I found the junk mail filter to be useless. I have a dozen rules at most, that do better than mails junk filters did after a month of 'training'.

 

[Consultant]

Get SpamSieve, great app for filtering spam.

Damn. I will edit it NOW!

LOL spam prevention fail.

 

[John Doe 57]

Get SpamSieve, great app for filtering spam.

Yeah I'll give that a shot. Hell, it won an Macworld Eddy in 2003!