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Apple Mail sometimes not showing content of e-mail
I'm using Apple Mail 16.0 (3696.120.41.1.1) on a MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) with macOS Monterey 12.6.2 (21G320).
I don't know when it started but there's a problem I have since some months:
Sometimes ...
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Does marking e-mails as spam help other Mac users?
Sometimes there's a spam e-mail in my inbox. I just have to click the spam button and the e-mail will get moved to the Junk folder. Some emails even land in the Junk folder automatically.
I assume ...
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macOS Mail has started to delete incoming mail unexpectedly
I have started noticing that email comes into Mail that gets nearly immediately deleted. I notice it either by the system level notification, or looking at the mailbox I see that it comes in. Then in ...
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Why is Apple Mail loading remote content in Spam Messages?
For a while now, likely including and pre-Big Sur, whenever I actually go through my Spam box message-by-message, when I click on one message is initially loads with the spam bar, the off yellow bar ...
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Avoiding Spam attribution for video alarm notification in Mail.app
I had been searching for years to avoid my own camera video alarm to be placed into spam by my Mail spam filter.
I finally understand the problem and have found a solution so I share it here.
The ...
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How do I change the Junk folder on the iPhone?
My mail provider puts spam into a folder called "Spam". On my Mac, I've configured Mac Mail to use this folder when I use the "Move to Junk" action. But if I try the same from the iPhone, it creates ...
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Junk/spam folder only visible after having opened settings in Mail.app
In the default mail app for some reason my junk folders are only visible after I open the preferences menu. The junk folder then stays visible for as long as the app is running, even after closing the ...
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My Mac is sending spam emails
I do not think this is mere spoofing, and I do not think it's exactly like Receiving spam from myself
Here is a diff of a test email I sent to myself(on the left), and the spam email(on the right).
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Names removed from Mac Mail VIP list are sent to Junk
I do not use the VIP list in my Mac Mail (Version 12.2). It's just not how I organize my mail — not how I roll.
And yet somehow, I accidentally added my wife to the VIP list.
It was very easy to ...
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Gmail Spam/Phishy classification not recognized by mail.app
I am running into an undesired scenario where incoming mail on gmail web interface is properly categorized as spam/phishing, however if the user employs any mail client (ie mail.app, outlook) - the ...
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Spam sent from my email address
A relative told me that he received an email from me this morning, that arrived in his spam folder. He opened it and apparently there was some porn related things inside. Obviously, I didn't send this ...
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How do I stop email addresses from spam autocompleting in Apple Mail?
Every single time I open an email to address to my mom, I see this, and absolutely nothing I've tried will get rid of it:
This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't want to see porn spam in my auto ...
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How can a spammer create an email that can't be deleted on an ipad mail app from an imap server?
My mum received a piece of spam, that could not be deleted or moved on her iPad using the mail app. It was only removed after deleting the account within the mail app, and recreating it.
Question:
Is ...
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How to efficiently mark mail as spam before reviewing it in Mac OS X Mail.app?
If my ISP marks an email as spam, and moves it to the spam folder before the Mac OS X Mail.app sees it, Mail.app does not mark these emails as spam.
This wouldn’t be too bad if there was a way for me ...
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AppleMail can not remove specific emails
I'm trying to delete obvious (virus, spam, scam) email anyway from Apple's Mail.app.
Getting error: File 7936.emlx could not be opened, because the file doesn't exist.
That's rough translate from ...
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Mail.app - messages deleted by applescript reappear later in the day in the inbox.
I use a set of applescripts to help report junk mail to spamcop.
The first script, after sending the raw source of the selected message to spamcop, marks the message as junk and then deletes it.
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El Capitan Mail 9.1: Disable remote content loading for junk mail only
Is there a way to disable the remote content loading only for messages marked as junk? I am aware that I can disable for all messages via Preferences, however I always want to show remote content on ...
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How can I hide spam emails in my inbox of OSX Apple Mail app?
I label my emails as spam or better "Junk email" in my iPhone and MacBook Air but the emails continue to stay in my inbox. I want to get rid of them without removing them so I can later improve my ...
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How can I stop loading external images in Mail.app?
I get a ton of spam every day and it makes me crazy that to mark it a spam or delete it I have to select the email, which opens it and loads all its images.
We all know spam emails contain distant ...
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Junk mail doesn't get automatically deleted
This is happening with Mail.app 6.6 on OS X 10.8.5, but has been going on for a few OS X versions.
In Mail.app, my account settings specify to delete junk mail after one day. Except it never gets ...
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Is there a way to know which rule filtered an email?
My Mail.app has at least 100 rules with thousands of conditions and sometimes I get mail filtered that was not supposed to be filtered.
All my filters work by moving unwanted stuff to the trash.
Is ...
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How do I stop loading images in Junk mail folder in Mail.app 6.6 with Gmail
I have setup Mail.app to use my Gmail account. Gmail has a spam filter that works excellent for me. But I sometimes check the Junk mailbox in Mail to see if something got there by accident.
When I go ...
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Mail app correctly marks spam but does not move it to the junk mail folder
as by message, Mail app does not bother moving mail correctly marked as spam in the spam folder -- this only happen when I am at home, and only during the week-end. I suspect that the IMAP server is ...
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Rules for filtering spam that comes written in russian alphabet, Mail 4.5, OS 10.6.8
I receive almost 99.99% e-mail spam in Russian.
I'm not sure why, but it makes it really easy for me to tell spam apart from real mail.
I use Apple mail 4.5 on MacOS 10.6.8, and I'd like to make a ...
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Does Mail Quick Look follow redirects when viewing webpages?
When a phishing email presents a link, they often send you to a webpage that redirects you to another webpage that they harvest your data from. Does the Quick Look feature in Mail follow these ...
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Is there a way to let Mail always mark the messages coming from a domain as spam?
I keep getting emails from a domain, which always use the same email address; every time I mark them as junk in Mail, but Mail keeps showing those email in my inbox.
Is there a way to force Mail to ...
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Mail app shows junk mails in my inbox
Here is the Junk Mail settings:
Also, junk mails are shown in Smart folders even when the "Message is not in mailbox Junk" condition is set ("Contains messages that match" is set to "all" as well).
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send non-delivery notification
I am fairly sure MobileMe (and possibly Mail.App) had a feature which allowed you to send a non-delivery notification for an email. This is possibly the best way to battle spam, however I can not find ...
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