This is probably off topic so please pardon my reply, but having dealt once with a wild fluke that caused over 100,000 junk mails per day for a while, I sympathize. :) No that number is not a typo.
The answer depends on several things: First, is there anything consistent about the junk mail--e.g., sender address, sender domain, subject line or key words in it? At a deeper level if you are comfortable finding and inspecting mail headers, you may find common header elements that are not normally visible in daily mail reading. These can of course serve in mail handling rules. Is the address to which the junk is being sent exactly the same as your normal address? I ask this because I am in the habit of giving out variants that still reach me but that let me filter out spam if one of the variants starts generating it. As a bonus, this also lets me sometimes identify who or what is responsible for the spam. Unlikely for you maybe, but worth asking because filtering by recipient address can be very effective for some cases. If you collect mail from more than one mailbox and find that the spam is coming from one you don't use, you could consider dropping that mailbox. I've lost track of how many times I've seen a ten-year-old mailbox belonging to a long-time friend suddenly start sending out spam. That doesn't of course sound like your issue, but it does indicate how common it may be for people simply to forget about old mailboxes and not maintain them. Of course, if this *is* your issue, you would likely have discovered this when checking for common elements, my first suggestion. In my 100,000 per day mail case, I actually wrote a program to clean out my upstream folder via IMAP just before I downloaded mail each time. I doubt you have to go that far. For the curious, here is what happened to me: In August, 2012, someone started sending literally millions of spam emails but listing my domain as the origin of the spam. As is often the case with such mass spam generation, a great many of the destination addresses were invalid. For each of these, the various mail daemons, that being programs that process mail for us, dutifully sent back an error indicating that the message could not be delivered. Since the messages had been crafted to consider my domain as the origin, the daemons sent the error reports to me, to the tune of, as I said, sometimes over 100,000 error messages a day. The program I wrote made mail completely manageable anyway, but I suspect that particular spam attack would have stopped most routine computer users from keeping up for a while. On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:20:07AM -0400, Phil Halton wrote: I don’t know what happened, but in the last week or so I’m deluge by a tsunami of junk mail. All I know to do is to move these messages to the junk mail folder and hopes that Apple mail will see it as junk and maybe start cutting down the volume of it. What can a person do when they’re overwhelmed by junk mail? Sent from my IPhone -- Doug Lee d...@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org The very smart may feel they have nothing to learn from anyone; The very wise will find something to learn from everyone. (7/14/01) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/20220614161150.ut7xpf4v7bdtovj5%40mini.home.
