Does marking emails as spam accomplish anything?

Cuppa n' Brew
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Philosophy and Linux help on the same site. LOL

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I use Evolution, and whenever I get spam/scam, I go to my USP's email web interface and mark it as spam in one of two ways.

First is blocking by email address or domain. If it's a particular email address I want to block, I enter that, if I want to block anything from the domain, I enter that.

The other method is by message filters.
This allows a great deal of control over what gets delivered and what gets blocked.
I can block part or all of a to, from, cc or priority, any or al of which can be specified using Any or ALL keywords.

for example, if I get spam from [email protected], with a I can narrow the blocking very specifically...

If ALL the following
From - Starts With jimmy
From - Ends With gmail.com
Action - Move To Spam

So even if jimmy changes the number, I still block him.
The result is excellent. I used to get maybe 30 or 40 spam/scam emails per week, and that's down to about 3 or 4.

I do check my spam folder on the USP's web interface about once every day or two, and if any valid, wanted email is there, I look to see why it's blocked and tweak the filters.

It's worth checking your USP's spam capabilities.

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... and we've ALL seen how that is working SO well just now for a country which is best only alluded to, for fear of reprisals ...

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