Stopping Spam Emails (1 Viewer)

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Has anyone found a solution to Spam Emails. Things that I have considered or tried:

1. New Email address – I have used the same yahoo address for over 20 years and it becomes entwined with friends, forums and accounts – why should I have to change it?

2. Mark them as Spam and Yahoo “will learn”, but Yahoo is a very slow learner and probably has the same problems as I do, in blocking Spam messages

3. Blocking Senders Email does not work as they use “dynamic Email addressing” that changes the Sender and Reply addresses, every single time

4. Yahoo has filters that you can write to identify and re-route Spam, and I have had about 10% success with these. Reading messages to try to identify filtering opportunities has probably made things worse, as the Sender can probably see that the messages has been opened and there is a (stupid) human at the other end – don’t poke the bear. Most Spam message consist of one large image and no words, so filtering by words in messages is not possible

5. Unsubscribing has the same effect as point 4 and is not intended to give you the opportunity to stop them. The whole image is one massive link so while there appears to be an “Unsubscribe” option, clicking anywhere on the whole message has the same effect

I could take the “just put up with it” option and don’t mind deleting 8 or 10 opportunities, to buy Bitcoins or win an Ipad 12, every day, but find it frustrating when I am busy or away from home, get a message and feel the need to download and read it in case it is a family emergency rather than a time waster

Has anyone found a solution? Is there a piece of software that would sit in front of Yahoo and filter these out? Is there anything that would work from the Router (BT)?

TIA
 
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I run my own domain and its email server. If I get one spam email a month I consider it a bad month.
The two things that stop most spam are 1; not accepting mail from a host that doesn't have a name, ie a reverse DNS pointer record and 2; refusing mail from any host listed on spamhaus.org.
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I think the main issue here is relying solely on Yahoo. I use Ionos for an email domain, and their filters combined with Apples, catches just about all of them.
 

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Change to Gmail because its spam filters are brilliant. I get perhaps one or two spam emails a year now.

After creating the Gmail account you need to set up your yahoo account so it forwards all mail sent to it to your new Gmail account. This way you won't lose any genuine emails sent to your old yahoo account but you won't get any spam because Gmail will remove them. :)

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I can remember the last time I got a spam email...... Never.
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Thank you for the useful suggestions. I do have a Gmail account, which feeds into Yahoo, at the moment. So, first will try reversing that as Gmail filter appears to be better than the Yahoo offering. I also have a Domain Name, that provides Email hosting, so that can be my backup option - Many thanks
 
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I run my own domain and its email server. If I get one spam email a month I consider it a bad month.
The two things that stop most spam are 1; not accepting mail from a host that doesn't have a name, ie a reverse DNS pointer record and 2; refusing mail from any host listed on spamhaus.org.
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You need to be careful with spamhaus. It is not uncommon for a spammer to use a random address as the return address. That way all of the undelivered emails go back to an innocent third party plus their address often ends up on spamhaus and the innocent user has the grief. I've had to sort this out for several companies.

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You need to be careful with spamhaus. It is not uncommon for a spammer to use a random address as the return address. That way all of the undelivered emails go back to an innocent third party plus their address often ends up on spamhaus and the innocent user has the grief. I've had to sort this out for several companies.
Detnor I don't use spamhaus in that way. I use EXIM as my MTA and when a host connects to it it checks the sending IP address with spamhaus. If its listed the HELO is rejected and no data is transfered so nothing to return, and EXIM nevers sees the return or any other address. With attemps to relay messages the connection is drop immediately after the invalid RCPT command, the body of the message is never transferred.
 

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Thank you for the useful suggestions. I do have a Gmail account, which feeds into Yahoo, at the moment. So, first will try reversing that as Gmail filter appears to be better than the Yahoo offering. I also have a Domain Name, that provides Email hosting, so that can be my backup option - Many thanks
If you eventually wanted to migrate away from Yahoo to GMail you could set up an out of office reply in Yahoo to automatically advise those sending mails into Yahoo of your new GM ail address whilst still forwarding them.

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