Spam, Spam, and more Spam

[#1]

You see, I wouldn't have done that - quoted that Bitcoin wallet address. I know it is unlikely but it just might be that ID is specific to your email. On the Internet you need to be ultra cautious, IMO.

                Nope I checked it’s used in over 80K+ scam reports.

I think, if you are using client email software, it is likely best to deal with all spam via your email client and not on the Greenby host. Switch off spam filtering in your Greenby account. If using Webmail exclusively, it's different.

               Outlook Rules will bin it but I tend to use iPhone to read emails

In my experience (from the past) it will eventually cease over time if ignored and they get no response. Never respond.

           I also never reply to SPAM, it’s in the bin or sent onto [email protected]

[#2]

I've also been with Plusnet over 20 years and been very happy with the service until Greenby raised its head.  Since then I've had waves of spam.  I've not been migrated to Greenland yet so my email is still with Plusnet and I've been waiting for Plusnet / Greenby to turn on the spam filters again ...

As a stop-gap, I've just gone back to using a very lightweight spam filter I last used over 20 years ago, pre-Plusnet.  I shouldn't need to use it because the ISP should filter out the blindingly obvious spam.

The filter is very small, it's free and it quickly learns to accurately identify spam.  You can then use a rule in Outlook etc to move the spam into a junk folder. 

Anyone who is interested can find it here ...  https://www.keir.net/k9.html

[#3]

@irritablegit 

"I've also been with Plusnet over 20 years and been very happy with the service until Greenby raised its head. Since then I've had waves of spam. I've not been migrated to Greenland yet so my email is still with Plusnet"

So your spam problem apparently has nothing to do with Greenby? Beyond coincidence... 🙂

"...and I've been waiting for Plusnet / Greenby to turn on the spam filters again ..."

You don't need to wait for Plusnet to "turn on the spam filters", you do that yourself via your account - whether Plusnet or Greenby.

Trouble is... (one of them) I think people may be a bit confused over spam and spam filters, as there are two different issues here:

1. Incoming messages rejected by email companies

For various reasons, bad reputation of sender's host IP address. Lack of suitable email security verification. Various patterns of behaviour of mail from host etc.

2. Incoming messages delivered by email companies - But markesd as (possible) 'Spam'

These are delivered to the recipient but put in the receiver's Spam/Junk folder rather than their Inbox, for them to assess and have the final say over. Can simply delete or mark as 'Not spam', which moves them back to Inbox and, over time, allows the incoming email spam filter to learn what is not spam. Also, the account holder can adjust the level of scrutiny via their email account settings.

N.B. I had spam filter set to OFF while I had the Plusnet email account. I found, on transfer to Greenby, the spam filter was ON by default and set to "More aggressive". This did result in some legitimate emails ending up in the Junk mailbox. But marking them as 'Not spam', plus adjusting the Greenby spam filter soon cleared up that minor issue.

[#4]

You don't seem to have any idea of what's going on with spam since the move towards Greenby started.  It doesn't seem to matter whether or not a user has yet been migrated to Greenby.

If you read other posts you will realise that the spam settings on Plusnet have long since stopped working.