Generally refers to any email or message that is either unwanted or unsolicited. Often of a commercial nature.
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When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users?
When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users? Or can you avoid specifying any users and just use a "generic" set of rules?
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Download all Gmail emails, regardless of spam
We use Gmail's Google Apps for receiving our work emails. Our users don't use the web client to access their emails, they use Outlook.
The problem is, some emails are being marked as spam inside ...
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How can I purposely send a message that will be marked as spam in Gmail?
I'm trying to test out forwarding, filters, and spam. I want to see how a spam message will be affected by my current configuration.
I want to send myself a message that will show up as spam in my ...
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How to retrieve deleted spam mails
I received an important mail in the spam folder and just as I hit the delete button, I realized its importance, Can I restore this mail ?
Notice that I use Yahoo mail.
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Routing my mail server through Google Spam filters
I've been told in the past that Google had a free spam filter service. The service would allow me to point my MX records to Google, then they would forward all cleaned mail to my server. Is this ...
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Why are my e-mails landing in Spam in gmail? [duplicate]
I'm sending e-mails from a sendgrid. But all the e-mails are landing in the spam box of Gmail accounts, if it contains words like 2vin.com or www.2vin.com in the message body. Other mails are ...
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How to stop SPAM in my GMail account?
I have this stupid friend of mine who is giving me a lot of pain these days. He is registering my profile and putting up my Email ID along with my phone no. on the worst spam sites on the web. These ...
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How can send mail via Gmail to more than 500 contacts of my friends? ( I don't want to set me as spammer)
Many of my friends use Gmail. When I want to send them attractive emails, I have a group named everyone that I use it.
After that I send email to my friends, and remind them to check their mailboxes, ...
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Spam events appear in my Google Calendar
In my Google Calendar, I sometimes find spam events that I never created.
In the screenshot below, you can see that they even managed to put my email address in the "Created by" field.
They are ...
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Emails sent to Gmail domain suddenly not RFC 2822 compliant, Possible to bypass with Google Apps?
Four days ago emails sent to our gmail accounts via our ISP's mail servies started being rejected due to not being RFC 2822 complainant.
The following message to was
undeliverable. The reason ...
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My Facebook account “likes” pages on its own – what can I do?
For a few months I have been noticing that my Facebook account is liking random pages on its own, even when I remove them, they keep getting added (liked).
Why is this happening?
Is my account ...
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Gmail: Add 'mailed-by' domain to safe list?
Gmail keeps marking emails coming from my site as spam. Is there any way to set up a filter that will send any emails coming from that domain to my inbox?
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Vicious message on Tumblr
My 13 year old granddaughter received a extremely serious vicious message via Tumblr. I am absolutely horrid she could get a anonymous message telling her she should end her life as there is nothing ...
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How can I reliably deliver email to Hotmail users?
One of my customers (annoyingly) uses HotMail for his primary email address. A lot of the time, my emails to him get returned undeliverable due an over-zealous spam filter.
My email is from my own ...
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How to deal with spam mails in spam folder in Yahoo Mail
Lately, my spam folder has been invaded by various spam mails. I have to check the spam folder everyday because there is a risk that some non-spam mails can fall in the spam folder. As the number of ...
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Why does eBay keep sending me “daily deals” emails?
I changed my notification preferences on the eBay website to stop sending me spam some time ago. It does say that the changes can take up to 10 days, but believe me, I unticked everything well past ...
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Search and sort emails in the spam folder of Yahoo Mail?
In Yahoo Mail, i am checking the emails in my spam folder, just in case that some emails have been mistaken as spam.
But in the spam folder, the emails are sorted by their "nominal"
receiving times, ...
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How to block all Emails addressed to someone else (not 'dot' problem)?
I get spam emails from sources I don't recognize AND addressed to emails that aren't even close to mine (not talking about the dot '.' issue that many have discussed in other threads).
It gets to my ...
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Best way to set up site-specific, removable email addresses using Gmail
I'm currently trying to figure out a good solution for this problem. I do get spam messages very rarely and I'd like to find out which site gave away my address (or was hacked), so I'd like to use ...
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How can people still be getting spam from a hotmail account that's been closed?
My wife had an old hotmail account which she recently closed. Some people that she used to communicate with from that account have recently been receiving spam emails from this account. I don't see ...
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How can I stop a Facebook app posting spam stuff on my twitter account?
I keep getting twitts like this on my timeline:
@pascale_66: Awesome! I made $102.54 this week just filling out a couple of surveys. http://t.co/GwjDUPK9
I've gone into Facebook, followed the ...
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Besides GMail, do any email providers support wildcard address with spam filtering? (e.g. *@example.com)
I'm looking for an email service not provided by Google that supports wildcard or 'catch-all' email addresses at my custom domain. Spam filtering must occur on the wildcard/catch-all addresses. Paid ...
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Undo “Report Spam” in Gmail?
I have unintentionally "Report Spam"ed an email that I meant only to archive from a frequent legitimate contact. Are there spam rule controls somewhere in Gmail that I can reverse the effect of my ...
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Yahoo! email account is sending spam to my old contacts, what do I do?
An old Yahoo! email account of mine is sending out viagra spam and advertisements to all the contacts in that account's address book. I'm not the one getting spammed, my friends are.
A friend ...
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Emails marked as spam
I am creating a newsletter for my customers and in the presses I sent many "check" emails to myself.
At some point, Gmail started marking them as spam.
My question is, if my account marked it as spam, ...
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Is it possible to forward all Gmail messages to another account *including* spam?
It's simple to set Gmail to forward all incoming mail to another account. However, the spam filtering is done before that takes place, so any messages that Gmail considers spam will end up in the ...
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Yahoo email account was used to send spams
My yahoo email account was sending spams at about 6:40pm today. I immediately updated my password.
I also checked "Recent Login Activity", but all recorded locations and IP addresses from 4:47 PM ...
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How can I reduce/eliminate photo tag spam in my facebook news feed?
I have one friend in particular who will be regularly tagged in photos such that he will show up in my news feed with an update like "xyz was tagged in SomeBusinessPages photo". The thing is my ...
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Blocking all about.com websites (*.about.com) from my Google search results
I regularly block websites from my Google search results. I've had no trouble with this Google feature, with the notable exception of about.com. This website uses a million subdomains, making it hard ...
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How can I detect the “spaminess” of a Twitter follower?
Are there any applications that can help determine the "spaminess" of a Twitter follower?
For example, looking at whether the user unfollows people who don't follow back, whether most of their Tweets ...
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Spam to deleted e-mail addresses
I keep getting delivery status notification failure for contacts no longer in my address book, for e-mail links I'm not actually sending. Any way I can stop this?
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Blocking stupid videos on YouTube
There are a lot of really stupid/trolly/fake videos on YouTube. I'd like to block them forever when I see them, so I don't accidentally click on them in the future, and maybe block the uploader, too, ...
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In Gmail how do I mark a message as not being Spam and Delete it?
Often when I am looking at my spam folder, I see message that are not Spam but that I do not wish to keep now that I have read them. If I hit “Not spam” the message is then put into my inbox where I ...
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How to block a Facebook page?
My feed is covered with "9gag content", and is there a way for me not to see it? I of course haven't liked the page, but my friends constantly like and share "their content", so it always ends up ...
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Why is gmail marking my Google Calendar reminders as spam?
Gmail is sending all of my calendar reminders to spam.
As far as I can tell, I don't have a filter (or anything else) telling it to do this.
How can I make it stop? I keep marking everything that ...
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Why do I keep getting these emails from non-existent email addresses on my domain?
My wife's got a website/domain for the business she owns, and lately she's been getting emails from email addresses on her domain that don't exist. So, she has like maybe five valid email addresses ...
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Is this email from Google Wallet spam, fraud, or legitimate?
I have just received an email from Google wherein they are asking for my physical address so that I can continue to use my Google Wallet account. This is strange since I have never used Google Wallet. ...
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How do I report a spam content on Wikipedia?
I was reading biography of a diseased columnist. I saw that the newspaper company of his has put its logo behind his pictures, and mentioning their company name a lot of place in the page profusely.
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What is bettercodes.org and is it trustworthy? Will they spam my contacts if I log in with Google?
I just got this rather lengthy and boring spam from someone I have no recollection of ever speaking too Michael <michael.bayer1980@googlemail.com>.
By developers! For developers! This is
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Does marking an email as spam in Gmail affect the filter for everyone?
If I mark something as spam in Gmail, does that modify only my spam filter or does it affect the spam filter for other users?
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Can't block spam email from a very specific email account on hotmail
I am receiving spam email from a specific email address for some time now. The email account has obviously been hijacked and abandoned. However that's not the problem. I have attempted to block this ...
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Is this a spam email? It says it confirms a Paypal payment, what should I do?
FW:You just sent a payment to Colin Peterson De: PayPalAgregar a
contactos Enviado: Tue, 1 May, 2012 a la(s) 3:09 pm Para:XXX PayPal
You just sent a payment Transaction ID: ...
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Advanced email spam score check [closed]
Is there a service that lets me send an email to for checking the spam score it? (Not just the text and attachment content but also the headers and everthing related to the email.)
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Random addresses from Google Apps domain sending spam
I have a Google Apps account set up for my domain with catch-all enabled. Recently I've been receiving bounced mail that I didn't send from random aliases for my domain (for example, ...
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How to block “via” senders in gmail?
I have this annoying problem in gmail. Spammers are by-passing the gmail spam filters and are so clever that I am not able to create a manual filter of my own to block them. They are sending me junk ...
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How long after I submit a piece of spam to SpamCop.net before it gets added to the blacklist?
How long after I submit a piece of spam to SpamCop.net before it gets added to the blacklist? I've been submitting mail here. but I can't seem to find anything about the process.
Does the spammer ...
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How can I prevent/lessen event spam on Facebook?
On Facebook, you can be invited to an event by any of your friends. Once you have been invited to an event, the admins of that event can send messages straight to your inbox even if you have not sent ...
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What are alternatives to Postini for spam filtering? [closed]
I'm looking for a good spam filtering service for a small business (< 25 people). I'm looking for a solution similar to Postini, where I set my MX records to route mail for my domain to the spam ...
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How to remove spam filter for Google Apps email
I have setup email with my domain in Google Apps, but when I did, I did something they asked to protect me from spam mail. (I guess I added some TXT or MX records.)
But now I miss a lot of email ...
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(Free) Google Postini alternatives? [closed]
I would like to know whether there are any (free) alternatives to Google Postini or not. I want to screen the messages first before sending them to the inbox.
