Blocking Spam - how ?

MouldyOldDough

I have been receiving spam from a BARRY FUGE for several months - whose send address keeps on changing (this morning - it was from @mymail.stratford.edu).

Always the same message "I thought pictures # 2 and 12 would be familiar to you.... " with a link - that I won't touch

I have tried to block it - the strange thing is that the emails never appear on webmail - or on my Outlook on my PC - ONLY on my android tablet - not even on my android phone !!

How can I block a "name" that doesn't appear to exist ?

I have managed to obtain the header which appears to tell me that the email originated in Redmond, Washngton, USA - ie) Microsoft... I am confused

Another tracer - reckons that the source ip address is 40.107.96.93

Neil_Jones

All the headers, all the names, all the technical guff will be forged.

So easy solution is (unless you happen to know anybody from Stratford University) just set up a rule to delete anything from a stratford.edu address.  Then you won't need to worry about it.

debitcardmayhem

I am confused , how do you get this spam onl on your tablet? What do you use for mail on the tablet and is it in the junk/deleted folders on outlook/webmail?

MouldyOldDough

Tablet aqua mail
PC outlook no just not there or in webmail!! 
Phone Google default 

onomatopoeia99

I'm very interested in some emails in an account only appearing in one mail user agent and not in others.  Have you tried installing a different one on the tablet and connecting that to the email account?

victor2

Maybe the tablet is using IMAP and seeing the emails before the webmail or Outlook filters the junk out?

MouldyOldDough

victor2 said:

Maybe the tablet is using IMAP and seeing the emails before the webmail or Outlook filters the junk out?

It is using imap - but not "delete when received"
All other emails remain available on other devices 

victor2

MouldyOldDough said:

victor2 said:

Maybe the tablet is using IMAP and seeing the emails before the webmail or Outlook filters the junk out?

It is using imap - but not "delete when received"
All other emails remain available on other devices 

I have my own domain and my hosting service uses SpamAssassin, which filters out the junk before any client sees it.

I did find that their webmail client could have rules, but they never operated until you logged in, so other clients would still see the junk if they logged in first. It depends where your email is coming through. I believe gmail are quite good at filtering out the spam.