Unwanted Emails

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 13 Dec 2013 6:07 pm

Lately I have been getting crap emails from ELEMAX. I have no idea what they are and the have no unsubscribe link. I do have them on my spam list (I use Gmail), but I get irritated by the 2 or 3 I see in my spam folder every day. Is there a way to completely block emails from them? I Googled Elemax and only get results for a Generator company. These emails are about things like gun control and other topics I don't care to view.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 13 Dec 2013 11:35 pm

Join SpamCop as a reporting member and send them there. All commercial email sent to US residents must supply an address and company name and an unsubscribe link.

Joining SpamCop has a learning curve, but you can do it. Otherwise, see if you can create a custom filter for email coming from their domain and route it to the Junk folder. Here's an example:

"From" contains @example.com
Send to Junk

"From" contains ELEMAX
Send to junk

"Body" contains ELEMAX
Send to junk

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 14 Dec 2013 7:37 am

In Gmail's "Settings", there's a tab for making user mail filters like the one's Wiz suggests. You should be able to easily avoid those emails, as well as others you deem onerous if any exist.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 14 Dec 2013 8:46 am

I could only guess about what filtering options gmail provides, as I am a POP3 email user, with spam filtering by MailWasher Pro. I actually compose spam filters for other MailWasher users and publish them on wizcrafts.net.

Nonetheless, I shall log into the web interface for Gmail, just to see what spam filters I am able to create. If my findings are positive, I may publish some user configurable spam filters for G-Webmail users.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 14 Dec 2013 9:31 am

Thanks guys. When I get time, I'll check it out. I also have problems with my Yahoo account, but that is an account I rarely use and actually want to get rid of. I had 54 spam emails this morning, and that is pretty typical. Every time I sit at my computer, I always check that Yahoo account and delete the emails. Otherwise (and this has happened), I would end up with a couple hundred emails in my spam box. A lot are from the same company or source. A lot of them, I am afraid to click on the "unsubscribe" links for fear of something nasty infecting my computer.

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 14 Dec 2013 2:40 pm

Wiz Feinberg wrote:I could only guess about what filtering options gmail provides, as I am a POP3 email user, with spam filtering by MailWasher Pro. I actually compose spam filters for other MailWasher users and publish them on wizcrafts.net.

Yeah, I didn't mention that before, but I'm a POP guy too. IMO, POP's the only way to go; any/all the web-based email deals are clunky to use and suspect in terms of privacy - you have no way of knowing who's scanning them, etc, and what's being done with stuff you send that way. I've recently returned to Choicemail as a filter, a permission-based system.

People on your existing whitelist don't know it's even there, and when you send email to someone not on your whitelist, Choicemail adds it. But "unknown senders" (spammers) get a short, polite invitation to "register" by clicking a link in the invitation email. Legitimate senders, who actually take the time to "register", show up in the Choicemail application as a list of "registered senders", and you get to decide if you want their email or not.

Senders who don't register (and spammers never do) get quietly deleted by Choicemail after a time interval you specify. It has a lot of built-in filters and it's pretty effective with no changes, but most users like to tweak things some, and it offers all sorts of ways to do that - whitelisting or blacklisting domains, email addresses, entire countries if you want (and I do)...user-specified IP ranges....lots 'o stuff.

I'm not using anything "Google" but their maps and their search engine anymore - and I even use Bing occasionally. Too much stuff in the news about Google I don't like, and I'm pretty sure they scan all the Gmail for targeted marketing, etc. I just don't need it, nor do I need their Google+, yada, yada. I've even closed my YouTube account now that Google has started limiting YouTube commenting if you won't upgrade to Google+.

Bah! Humbug!

/rant

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 14 Dec 2013 3:06 pm

That is Max Stuckey. He is one of our Florida Steel Guitar Club members and lives in Orlando.

I don't know how you got on his e-mail list. Send him an e-mail and tell him you want off his list.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 15 Dec 2013 12:00 am

Jack Stoner wrote:That is Max Stuckey. He is one of our Florida Steel Guitar Club members and lives in Orlando.

I don't know how you got on his e-mail list. Send him an e-mail and tell him you want off his list.

Really? If it was stuff about the steel guitar, I wouldn't mind.