Mail: junk mail increase
Searched for this and didn't see anything, but read something similar somewhere online a couple of weeks ago and can't remember where...
Recently I have started getting lots of ads to my Mail (.mac) account, now several a day. I got one junk message over the entire two years previous. Two today arrived addressed from a company that doesn't offer those items and yet I have made purchases from in the past year; a trusted name, I doubt they are sending them.
The messages are going to my base .mac account, which I rarely use except for purchases from Amazon, Apple, etc., trusted names.
The one thing I have thought of is it started AFTER I created my homepage with iWeb. Could these "sites" be seeking out these web pages and sending mail to their root addresses? If so, would it be possible for Apple to disable the root address as the mail address and allow users to only recieve mail to their aliases?
Recently I have started getting lots of ads to my Mail (.mac) account, now several a day. I got one junk message over the entire two years previous. Two today arrived addressed from a company that doesn't offer those items and yet I have made purchases from in the past year; a trusted name, I doubt they are sending them.
The messages are going to my base .mac account, which I rarely use except for purchases from Amazon, Apple, etc., trusted names.
The one thing I have thought of is it started AFTER I created my homepage with iWeb. Could these "sites" be seeking out these web pages and sending mail to their root addresses? If so, would it be possible for Apple to disable the root address as the mail address and allow users to only recieve mail to their aliases?
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Originally posted by Xool
Do you have your email address posted on your .Mac site?
No, but I did for the first couple of days. No junk mai those days... it started a little while later.
I think someone may have written a script to try addresses starting with
http://web.mac.com/???
and when they find an actual page, send a message to the account it is linked to.
All of the messages are similarly formatted, but with different senders' addresses and content.