I was getting marketing emails that I no longer wanted to see. The approved way is to 'unsubscribe', right. So I did the 'right thing', and now am being ruthlessly punished for it. (Or, in an apparent ideal world we don't live in, setup a rule/filter.)
So part of this is a rant about macOS Mail. Rules are a joke. Mail Rules *should* be replicated to all a users devices, but they aren't. Rules should actually run as the messages are being received, and they aren't.
I'm getting 40 to 50 messages (or more) a day that started the day I unsubscribed. Some are going into the Junk folder(s) yet many are hanging around in the Inbox. I have created dozens of new Rules on my two most used macs, hopefully dealing with the inundation of junk, but the rules don't seem to run. So many messages I KNOW I have a rule for and yet it doesn't run.
I sent 'feedback' to Apple, but I've gotten the idea that thousands have and nothing has changed. If anything, as one person wrote, macOS Mail has actually gotten worse.
What really needs to happen is a mail filtering program/system that sifts the actual headers and determines the actual source of the email and blocks that address, or domain. Blocking spoofed email domains is unproductive as it also could (if rules actually worked) block legitimate messages.
And I am beyond pissed that a company I received emails from, and likely also bought products from, would give or sell my email addresses to scammers and spammers. (The same thing is happening with Hotmail/Outlook.com, but it seems to be working better there)
It ought to be illegal to do 'punish' people that unsubscribe, and dammit, macOS Mail SHOULD WORK BETTER!!!
And, sure, iCloud.com does support rules, but they are not as powerful (sounds like a joke to say that about macOS Mail rules) as macOS Mail. Ideally, the rules I create on a macOS system *should* propagate to the 'mothership' iCloud account. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Come on Apple! BE BETTER!!!
So part of this is a rant about macOS Mail. Rules are a joke. Mail Rules *should* be replicated to all a users devices, but they aren't. Rules should actually run as the messages are being received, and they aren't.
I'm getting 40 to 50 messages (or more) a day that started the day I unsubscribed. Some are going into the Junk folder(s) yet many are hanging around in the Inbox. I have created dozens of new Rules on my two most used macs, hopefully dealing with the inundation of junk, but the rules don't seem to run. So many messages I KNOW I have a rule for and yet it doesn't run.
I sent 'feedback' to Apple, but I've gotten the idea that thousands have and nothing has changed. If anything, as one person wrote, macOS Mail has actually gotten worse.
What really needs to happen is a mail filtering program/system that sifts the actual headers and determines the actual source of the email and blocks that address, or domain. Blocking spoofed email domains is unproductive as it also could (if rules actually worked) block legitimate messages.
And I am beyond pissed that a company I received emails from, and likely also bought products from, would give or sell my email addresses to scammers and spammers. (The same thing is happening with Hotmail/Outlook.com, but it seems to be working better there)
It ought to be illegal to do 'punish' people that unsubscribe, and dammit, macOS Mail SHOULD WORK BETTER!!!
And, sure, iCloud.com does support rules, but they are not as powerful (sounds like a joke to say that about macOS Mail rules) as macOS Mail. Ideally, the rules I create on a macOS system *should* propagate to the 'mothership' iCloud account. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Come on Apple! BE BETTER!!!