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<blockquote data-quote="hempomatic" data-source="post: 1934413" data-attributes="member: 335450">A couple of quick points. Nothing (literally) does much to eliminate the spam email apparently including Spam Sieve, however the Apple Mail program does a pretty decent job of filtering them to my spam folder.&nbsp; In my case, the worst offender seems to be Gmail.&nbsp; My ProtonMail account has never gotten a spam email in 3 years.&nbsp; I HAVE used temporary email addresses I would set up if I'm going to purchase something on-line.&nbsp; That also had the added benefit of being able to figure out what retailers are selling (sharing?) my email address.&nbsp; The most recent offender is Wayfair, but Walmart&nbsp; was almost as bad.&nbsp; Within 2 days of using my temporary email address to Wayfair, I had 5 or 6 spam emails.&nbsp; I went on a few months ago&nbsp; to simply check after a couple of months of not using it, and there were hundreds and the ONLY thing I used that email for was a single purchase on Wayfair.&nbsp; I've since deleted that account.&nbsp; I even went on their web site to unsubscribe because even though I said I didn't want sale information, I would get several a day. That worked eventually, but took a few weeks. That didn't help with the rest of the spam though.&nbsp; I wonder what can be done about that?&nbsp; Now, part of my normal email ritual is opening mail, going to the spam folder, then highlighting and deleting them all at once.&nbsp; More of an annoyance than anything else I guess.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hempomatic, post: 1934413, member: 335450"] A couple of quick points. Nothing (literally) does much to eliminate the spam email apparently including Spam Sieve, however the Apple Mail program does a pretty decent job of filtering them to my spam folder. In my case, the worst offender seems to be Gmail. My ProtonMail account has never gotten a spam email in 3 years. I HAVE used temporary email addresses I would set up if I'm going to purchase something on-line. That also had the added benefit of being able to figure out what retailers are selling (sharing?) my email address. The most recent offender is Wayfair, but Walmart was almost as bad. Within 2 days of using my temporary email address to Wayfair, I had 5 or 6 spam emails. I went on a few months ago to simply check after a couple of months of not using it, and there were hundreds and the ONLY thing I used that email for was a single purchase on Wayfair. I've since deleted that account. I even went on their web site to unsubscribe because even though I said I didn't want sale information, I would get several a day. That worked eventually, but took a few weeks. That didn't help with the rest of the spam though. I wonder what can be done about that? Now, part of my normal email ritual is opening mail, going to the spam folder, then highlighting and deleting them all at once. More of an annoyance than anything else I guess. [/QUOTE]

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