Mail rules being ignored

[RobinP]

Have also found (by trial and error) that the rule will not save if the Rule Name has any spaces in it. Bit wierd but it works.

Am now editing all my old rule names that used to work with spaces in, just in case. Strangely I found upon discovering the email rules in settings (had forgotten about them) they were de-activated. Am wondering if re-activating will ruin the current spam filtering which I've found increasingly effective, until recently. 

[grahamm1]

I have a similar issue.

I have set some rules to try to stop being bombarded by scam "your anti-virus subscription has expired" emails. I've set the rules to "discard" any emails containing the name I want to block. Each rule has a slight change in the company name to try to catch all variants.

Despite this, I still get these scam emails in my inbox or junk mail box.

Does "discard" mean "delete/block"?

[RobinP]

Hi,

I directed all my junk/spam emails to be sent to the SPAM option if, for example any Headers or if the Main Body (of the email) contained, for example, 'one of our members would like to contact you' or some other similar phrase which none of my genuine contacts would use.

I accidentally blocked a gmail address once and stopped receiving ALL correspondence from gmail, my bad as I'd incorrectly configured the 'rule' 😉