AOL American Spam 14256 23 February at 3:52PM edited 24 February at 10:35AM in Techie Stuff 5 replies 119 views

Robin9

I am getting inundated with spam  - often 14256 @ xxxxxxxxx.xxxx or [email protected]     You have been selected, tried to deliver. McAfee expired ......

The old AOL enabled you to identify and block these but I get a message "exceeds 1000....."  The newer version had the facility under "more ... " to spam, block the emails

I don't want to loose my AOL address


Any suggestions ?

Neil_Jones

Delete it yourself,

Pointless blocking as most of the "from" emails will be spoofed anyway.

Robin9

I do delete it  20 or 30 items several times a day

km1500

Can you do rules eg 'if message contains mcafee then delete'

Outlook allows this

forgotmyname

AOL used to have good blocking options but when Yahoo took over they stopped it. I had one set to only allow known email
addresses and other AOL users but they removed that option and its quite limited now.

You can still keep AOL but use another email client and get that to block the emails. I use Thunderbird for
my old AOL emails and yes they get way more spam than any gmail ones.

Robin9

km1500 said:

Can you do rules eg 'if message contains mcafee then delete'

Outlook allows this

That works to an extent - I can use a rule - move to blocked , then I can delete en-block