How to stop spam emails from reaching your inbox<article>
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<p>Spam—phishing, marketing, and scam emails—is annoying, that we can all agree on. One Macworld reader wants to take the ultimate step is stopping these emails.</p>
<p>Is it possible to set one’s iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad to ensure scam, phishing, and marketing emails are blocked? I’d be grateful for any information you can provide.</p>
<p>Would it were so! Would it were so. Unfortunately, the basis of internet email is that every part of the system more or less
mostly trusts every other part. It used to be that every part completely trusted every other part.</p><p>That’s one problem, because since server and messages are mostly trusted, scammers, spammers, and aggressive legitimate marketers can’t simply be blocked before the message lands at your email host, the site at which email is accepted for your address. Another is that return addresses can be forged—at least some of the time—because there’s no verification system that ensures an email you receive was sent from the address shown to have sent it. (There are ways for owners of domains and operators of mail servers to specify and validate the only legitimate servers that a return address comes from, but they’re not universally deployed nor perfect.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3223689/internet/how-to-stop-spam-emails-from-reaching-your-inbox.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to stop spam emails from reaching your inbox
