Dottie Atwater Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 I get dozens in messages in my Spam folder every day because they were sent to a non-existent yahoo account. (I deleted that particular yahoo account long ago.) Can anyone advise me how to stop these? If I don't delete them every day, I end up with hundreds! I just deleted 84 of the spam messages. HELP PLEASE. Interestingly, I just noticed that I received and read a message from someone in my gmail account. That particular message was also copied into my Spam folder. Help! Thanks... Dottie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted September 25, 2019 Moderators Share Posted September 25, 2019 I, too, would be interested in how to stop spam email. Heck, I would be happy with just a dramatic reduction. I am not expecting or wanting perfection. Haven't found a solution yet that really works, including some applications (that cost money). With a very public email address because we administer a website, you would NOT believe how much time I spend separating the good stuff from the junk. Some applications work "just okay", but nothing really effective. For a while I was averaging about 1,200 junk emails per day, but have been able to get it down to about 200 a day recently. Email from Brazil and Russia are the worst offenders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundageba Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 (edited) WOW ! Please let us all know how you did reduce the amount down. I am blown away at that 1200/day email-spam amount and do appreciate the time you had to spend to separate the wheat from the shaft, just because you are a moderator of such a helpful site as this one. .........Alison Edited September 25, 2019 by Brundageba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottie Atwater Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 I solved my particular spam problem. I discovered that in addition to real spam, every time I received a legitimate message in my gmail account, a "non-deliverable" identical message appeared in my spam folder...."can't deliver to muffiemae@yahoo.com." I discovered that I could set up a filter to automatically delete anything that contained "muffiemae@yahoo.com." So far, so good. However, I do have another computer problem: After a massive computer crash and loss of many files, when I click to open some of the remaining files, I get this message. I've done search after search and can't figure out how to get rid of this message and actually open the file. Information anyone? Thanks. Dottie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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