topic Re: Spam filter list is at it's maximum. in Other Smartphones

Spam filter list is at it's maximum.

tigermoth50 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:20:17 GMT

What do I do now that my spam filter list is full?

Re: Spam filter list is at it's maximum.

Steven9761 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:27:52 GMT

Your EMAIL spam filter, or phone numbers?

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RXM — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:19:28 GMT

How apt that you get spam on your post about spam.

I also need a bit more information. Is this on Samsung Email or via your SIM?

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tigermoth50 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:43:55 GMT

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tigermoth50 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:44:34 GMT

Gmail

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Steven9761 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:44:36 GMT

I'm not sure how to do it on your phone, but on the equivalent desktop app, some email clients (such as Outlook) allows you to set up filters that will block mass spamming. For example:

Joebloggs19@outlook.com
Fredsmith9000@outlook.com
Bendywendy@outlook.com

all have the suffix "@outlook.com". so, instead of blocking those 3 email addresses individually, you are able to block the @Outlook.com part, as a collective. Of course, this then results in legitimate emails being sent to your spam folder, so it then becomes necessary to set an alternative filter rule. If you get spammed by ads for viagra, bitcoin, etc from email addresses, you can set up the filter rules to pre-scan your emails, looking for VIAGRA, or BITCOIN or whatever, to then divert those emails to your spam folder. Initially, it is time-consuming, but after a while, you should reap the benefits of using filters. Use Google to search for best advice on how to use filters in your email client. I think if you set this up using a computer, the filters are done on the client servers, before you will retrieve your emails on your phone.

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RXM — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:57:51 GMT

Hmm. Roughly how many Spam email accounts have you added. Just roughly. The only thing I could think it could be would to do with your Gmail, Google Photos and Google Drive 15gb limit. Even if you don't use the latter two I believe it counts towards your 15gb limit. But saying that, adding an email address to your spam would hardly take up much space, if any. Do you happen to know what storage you have left on your Google account? My Gmail takes up 0.25gb but I barely use it and don't send many attachments.

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tigermoth50 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:01:17 GMT

Re: Spam filter list is at it's maximum.

tigermoth50 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:02:47 GMT

500 addresses block.

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Steven9761 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:13:07 GMT

Check to see if you can create filters, as I suggested, above. That 500 can probably be whittled down quite a bit if you are able to assign filter rules. So, instead of, say 50 email addresses trying to entice you to invest in bitcoin, by applying "bitcoin" as the filter word, you have gone from blocking 50 individual email addresses, to just ONE filter block. Likewise, if "viagra" is another filter word. Just by applying filter rules to those 2 words alone, you have reduced that 500 to just 402!!

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RXM — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:18:23 GMT

Apparently 500 is the limit on blocking on Gmail:

https://bit.ly/3znwOrS

I guess the solution is not in blocking the address since someone determined can just by pass this with another email address. See if this page helps:

https://bit.ly/3kZ95dN

I think Stevens post about filtering could be a solution but honestly I don't get enough spam.

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RXM — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:20:09 GMT

Yeah this sounds like the way to go 👍

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Steven9761 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:26:44 GMT

This: https://www.jotform.com/help/404-how-to-prevent-emails-from-landing-in-gmails-spam-folder might help to explain the steps to setting up filters in your Gmail account.

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Members_2HUBOEr — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:20:24 GMT

What a daft comment! This is a Samsung community, and the comment clearly relates to the Samsung email app which has a limit of 500 addresses for spam!

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Members_2HUBOEr — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:33:47 GMT

It doesn't work like that in the Samsung email app which was being referred to! This isn't outlook SMH...

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Steven9761 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:40:08 GMT

This may come as a complete surprise to you, but your phone is really just a pocket-sized version of a computer! If you set up rules and filters on your pc, they control what you will see appearing on your device. The idea of this community is to HELP OTHER MEMBERS, not hurl insults at people.

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AntS — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:04:00 GMT

@Members_2HUBOEr,

The Samsung Email app is an email management system, allowing access to emails from different email providers/clients all in one place, as opposed to an email provider/client itself. The app or desktop versions from the email providers/clients themselves may have different options available than the Samsung Email app, which are definitely worth exploring.

Filters are a good suggestion for a workaround in this case, as it should affect how incoming emails are organised before they appear in the Samsung Email app. But definitely depends on whether the email provider/client somewhere has the option to do it natively – as Steven9761 said above.

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Dusil — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:13:02 GMT

At this day and age, the Samsung spam limit of 500 is ridiculous. I reach this limit in weeks because I get around 30 spam emails across 8 email addresses. There is absolutely no technical justification to keep it at an arbitrary 500 limit. It should be 10000 at least.

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DocBlase — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 02:49:01 GMT

Here is how to delete addresses from your Samsung Email list, to make room for new ones, or fix an accidental block:

Open your email app. > tap the Menu on the top left. > tap Settings gear on top right > scroll down to Spam Addresses.

>tap Remove button. That opens the select radio buttons. Choose the ones you want to remove (it's none of them probably, but you have to make room. 500 is the Android 12 limit).

-You can select all by using the button on top-left. -

Once selected, tap the Remove button again and they are deleted . 😉

As far as I know there is no way to increase the Spam List limit within Android. A third-party app may be the way to go (?) I just ran into this today so we'll all find out.

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Dusil — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 05:28:59 GMT

Hi Docblase, I have no issues with how to delete the spam database. In fact I have to do this on average about every 3 months. It's my quartly reminder of the ridiculousness of Samsung's stupid the 500 limit. But thanks for the message. I know you're just trying to help. Stay safe.