Mac geeks required - Automated email bouncing?

[Dman]

I keep getting emails that I just can't unsubscribe from. Is there a way that I can use Terminal to automatically bounce emails received from certain email address, or to automatically put them in the trash? If so, how would I do this?

Cheers

 

[Deckard]

I thought Mail automatically learnt with time what was trash? Keep labelling them as junk and it should learn what needs to go in the trash.

I don't know which ISP you use, but we're with BT and it allows me to filter out 99% of the junk e-mails before they're even downloaded, that may also be an option.

 

[JonathanRyan]

Dunno about terminal but if you use Mac Mail it's trivial. Just open up preferences, go to rules and add a rule

"When new mail arrives from xxx delete message". You could also use a rule to bounce it but what's the point?

Alternatively Spam Sieve is very good.

 

[Dman]

Dunno about terminal but if you use Mac Mail it's trivial. Just open up preferences, go to rules and add a rule

"When new mail arrives from xxx delete message". You could also use a rule to bounce it but what's the point?

Alternatively Spam Sieve is very good.

Excellent, I knew there was something I could do, just couldn't remember what. Cheers for that!

 

[Musicman]

I keep getting emails that I just can't unsubscribe from. Is there a way that I can use Terminal to automatically bounce emails received from certain email address, or to automatically put them in the trash? If so, how would I do this?

You could roll your own filtering system using Procmail. It's the old-skool method, but requires a reasonable understanding of how email works and with working at the command-line. I did it the best part of a decade ago.

As already observed, however, it's easy enough to do in Apple Mail these days. That's what I use now.