Understanding Cox's server-side email filters
Hello all --
I'm trying to get s handle on Cox's server-side email filters. The specific questions I have:
What is the difference between 'Discard' and 'File into Trash'?
Similarly, what is the...
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Mick,
The server side rules are USELESS. I have created over 200 rules to block some of the SPAM that comes through EVERY DAY between 3 and 7 AM ET, and they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to block them. I have about 6 different ones ALONE for Wild Alaska Seafood, and EVERY email still finds its way into my inbox. The filters are about as effective as building a dam out of crepe paper to stop the Pacific Ocean.
Hi JP --
That's pretty much my experience, too. I also have the reverse problem. I set up many rules to accept a site's email, and it still gets placed by Cox in spam. I have had some luck using the approach here
https://lifehacker.com/try-this-gmail-filter-to-rope-off-mailing-lists-and-new-5643977
in 'Content contains' rules. The problem though is that I have to have earlier rules to accept what i want, (see above) and I can't make that foolproof either.
Very specific rules, such as 'from me@alternate.email put in inbox' do work. But I'm never going to buy Alaskan salmon, or need a new bathtub. And those are the ones to stop. Apple mail is smart enough to figure it out client-side. How does it know?
Thanks,
Mick
- @Mick536
Please check this link and scroll down to spam settings https://bit.ly/32gbncT. Let us know if this helps.
Jonathan J
Cox ModeratorJonathan --
Thanks, but no help really. I do all those things and just can't get the rules to work. Things I want to go to spam don't, and things that shouldn't go do. How does Cox make its decisions and how does Apple? If I knew I probably could work it out.
Does anybody have an example of a working 'mail listing' rule?
...Mick
NOW IT’S GETTING RIDICULOUS. NOT 1, BUT 2 SPAM EMAILS FROM WILD ALASKAN THIS MORNING. THE EMAIL FILTERS ARE ABSOLUTELY USELESS, AND COX HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP THESE SPAMMERS. IT’S AS IF THEY ARE GETTING PAID TO ALLOW THIS JUNK. I’M JUST READY TO CLOSE DOWN MY ACCOUNT AND GIVE UP.
