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emails with no sender address

mar53 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:34:43 GMT

I'm trying to set up a rule to discard any emails with no address coming into my spam box. In the sender part I set does not contain and then in the next box I put @ . After applying this no emails are coming in. Can someone please tell me the correct procedure.

Re: emails with no sender address

gg30340 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:16:09 GMT

Why bother with a rule. If the emails are going into your spam folder then the spam filters are doing their job. Once in the spam folder just delete them.

Re: emails with no sender address

mar53 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:24:54 GMT

Because I'm getting 60 + per day, also yo save me sifting through the list to ensure they are all spam

Re: emails with no sender address

pwuk — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:21:43 GMT

I agree - its about time BT did something about them !

Re: emails with no sender address

Tenarèze — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:53:10 GMT

Hi,

I'm getting exactly the same problem, with bots flooding my Spam folder (typically 30-70 emails per day).

So far, I've set up two "If From" rules:

"not contains" and @, then discard

"contains" and "" (ie blank), then Move to Folder xxx.

Neither of these works. Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a better way? Please note that I don't want these things ending up in the Spam folder at all, as I like to check any "real" spam for false positives.

Re: emails with no sender address

mar53 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:55:26 GMT

Sorry I have never found a fix for this problem either

Re: emails with no sender address

Tenarèze — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:12:54 GMT

Thanks for the feedback.

What are the BT Mail developers doing about this, I wonder? Perhaps one of the Mods could elaborate?

Re: emails with no sender address

pwuk — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:06:09 GMT

What i tend to do is interrogate the source of the email. open the email and from the menu you can "view source" ( don't' have the email fully maximised as it does not show)

You can track the source of the email from there - be careful you don't chose BT's servers etc.

Then in the rules i setup, on the domain section, :

If the "sender domain" contains - Enter the name of the sending domain - then discard.

I do not include the .com .co.uk .org etc etc

If the domain is for eg 34873489543757@890harry.freeddns.org - i just put in freeddns

I am finding that this is working well

Hope this makes sense

Paul