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Lately, everyone I know who has a .Mac account has been getting floods of spam. It's the typical b.s.; viagra, stock tips, etc.; most has been that image-based garbage.
I know all about setting up rules, junk mail, etc.; all are active on my wife's Mac for instance. But much still gets through.
Doesn't Apple do *any* spam filtering at the server level? I have basic filtering on my accounts through my own mail server (i.e., mail to my domain name). It just seems that there's no "protection" being offered at .Mac at all.
Forget all the cutesy icons and "special offers", Apple, and do something about .Mac mail being such a spam magnet. It's getting harder and harder to push your services with this kind of crap going on.
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I guess there's an exception to every rule. I was distressed because I have begun getting one or two spams a week on my .Mac. I don't find spam to be any worse with my .Mac account than with my Verizon accout or my gmail accounts. Probably better.
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Spam seems to be getting sneakier. My ISP has what has always been a good spam filter, and I used to be able to go for months without a piece getting all the way through to Thunderbird on my computer. I've started checking the Spam filter through the webmail periodically, and it's catching 50 to 60 per day, and yet another 5 or 6 a day are getting through.
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.Mac absolutely does server-side spam filtering. The problem is, it's not configurable at all. Just a big black box you have to trust to do the right thing.
I too am seeing the return of image spams. They started hitting .Mac a few months ago, Apple changed their spam filter settings, and they disappeared. Now the image spammers have started randomizing the name of the .gifs they're using. I'm now back up to 5-6 spams a day, and Mail.app's filters aren't catching many of them, either. Bastards!
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I've had more spam getting through Verizon.
lots of fake names so it appears personal, I guess.
I've never gotten any kind of spam through .mac
Don't know why or how.
(yes, I do have a .mac account) :-)
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The spam from my .Mac account has been out of control lately- 10-15 per day an no amount of filtering seems to stop it. It has been so bad that I thought twice before I renewed my account.
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Spam on my .Mac folder wasn't really an issue until my Tsunami Satellite images page went viral back in Jan, 2005 - ever since then, that account is useless.
For my main mail account (self-hosted, not .Mac), I have two Spam folders, "Spam" and "Jail".
I can't actually see the "Spam" folder from any mail client - the mail server software jams any message that meets a certain threshold in there and I never look at it. This is for messages that are absolutely spam. A quick check on the server shows 58,443 messages in there. Of them, 913 are from the last 7 days.
The "Jail" folder is for stuff that is probably Spam, but might catch a real message once in a while. This folder is visible in my mail clients. Up until about a week ago, I'd get maybe 1 or 2 messages per day in this folder and maybe once a month a real message would sneak through. All of a sudden, I am getting about 20 messages per day in there. I still don't check it any more often than I would otherwise, but something about the type of spam being sent has changed recently to lower the spam "score" so they don't get filtered into "Spam" automatically. I'll give it a couple more days and then add the "Jail" messages to the spam bayesian filter, which, in theory, should begin to catch these new messages.
As for real spam, about one a month a message bypasses the filters completely, which is a rate I can live with.
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Every account that I use regularly gets SPAM. I almost never use my .Mac e-mail, and I get no SPAM there.
I get a ton through earthlink, but when I check my earthlink e-mail accounts using a browser, which lets me see what's in the folder of intercepted SPAM, it's obvious that only a very small percentage of the total is actually getting through to my mailbox.
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I'm also getting plenty of image spam via .Mac. I've recently been using more and more of my Yahoo mail account that I've had for 9 years and less and less of .Mac. I'm lucky if I receive one spam per day at Yahoo.
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For years I received no spam on my dot mac account but lately I've been getting 2 - 5 a day, mostly viagra ads and a few "Don't miss out on this great stock deal" junk. I'm disappointed as they're inot even misspelling cialis, viagra et al (I may be) and I'd hope their filter would catch it. Nearly every one has an attachment too. I almost wish I hadn't just resubscribed.
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