Eliminate Spam in O2 Mail: Steps to Effectively Clean and Manage Your Inbox

How to get rid of spam in O2 mail?
Every day I get several dozen if not a few hundred e-mails with proposals for quick earnings ...
I moved them to the spam folder but nothing helped ...
How do I get rid of it?

Jamus1 wrote:

How to get rid of spam in O2 mail?
Every day I get several dozen if not a few hundred e-mails with proposals for quick earnings ...
I moved them to the spam folder but nothing helped ...
How do I get rid of it?

You won't get rid of it.
This is free mail, right? Then don't expect anything. And let me tell you that on a well-configured e-mail server you will never see anything like this. Already at the stage of naming the connection the server itself will reject the connection, because some basic information, such as what IP mail from a given domain can be sent from, will not match, etc.

For the future. You are setting up some kind of payment box. You make a few aliases on it. One for on-line shopping, the other for some internet forums, another junk e-mail if you need to share your e-mail at one time and you don't trust him, etc., etc. It's easy to change the alias when it starts spamming.

There is no golden mean.

marcin

I have the same problem, I receive spam in bulk. Every next one every few minutes. About 700 items during the week. Most catch blacklisting and manual domain blocking. Every now and then I add more to the list and so on.
Free accounts are worth what they cost.

Create an account on gmail, almost 0 spam there. If you need to use an O2 address then connect your O2 account to your gmail account so that gmail can download and filter O2 emails.

mipix wrote:

I have the same problem, I receive spam in bulk. Every next one every few minutes. About 700 items during the week. Most catch blacklisting and manual domain blocking. Every now and then I add more to the list and so on.
Free accounts are worth what they cost.

I can bet that it comes from the IP company ovh
That 2-3 years ago I got some similar in nuisance g ... about their IP.
Spam from a supposedly Polish company, their legal client. But they claimed that everything was fine because the client assured them that it was operating in accordance with its regulations.

There is no other method for this but to set up a sensible mailbox on the server that will filter it out. Because they are easy.

Jamus1 wrote:

I moved them to the spam folder

Do not carry, but enable antispam in the options. And only then do you move the survivors (about 1/1000 of me).

I suspect some GENERAL hacking into o2 mail, at an extremely high level, with extremely high privileges, because I had a lot of suspicious cases:
1.after I wrote that I get from this and the spammer changed the names of "senders" (different template)
2.The last spam attack I have since I cleared the spam folder (there were 5 emails there instead of the typical 150)
3.Larger attacks are after visiting the spam folder (without reading)
4. and other suspects.

100% fault is not on my side, the computer is clean (clean installation many times with a naked Microsoft original), I also changed the password (to difficult, no one can guess hints including me, I have the type "c2bibvwd ## R $ on all accounts) @ # 3bjn dnjnk "), this spammer probably has access to accounts without typing passwords.

bogiebog wrote:

Create an account on gmail, almost 0 spam there. If you need to use an O2 address then connect your O2 account to your gmail account so that gmail can download and filter O2 emails.

I recommend such a solution, gmail filters messages from the old interia account quite well, where a lot of spam also comes.
If you want to add an additional spam filter, you can also create an account on outlook.com and then o2.pl-> outlook.com-> gmail

The filter on O2 and so catches a lot of the shit that goes there. For 5 days, almost 700 e-mails have reached the SPAM folder (thanks to their filter), and only about 30 "broke through", which is less than 5%. Nice result.
You have to throw what squeezed into spam and that's it.

I did something like this:

The topics were repetitive enough to be filtered by individual words. At the end, I added a rule so that everything that is not addressed to me would end up in a vacuum. I don't know why a lot of spam in the "TO" field had some misplaced names for my address.

mipix wrote:

I did something like this:

The topics were repetitive enough to be filtered by individual words. At the end, I added a rule so that everything that is not addressed to me would end up in a vacuum. I don't know why a lot of spam in the "TO" field had a completely different address than mine. Most of the time, it was some sort of confused address for my address.

The spammer will change words and you have to manually modify the rules. Treatment of muck with powder it is.

The idea of a bet that 99% of this crap should not reach the server at all. In the sense that at the stage of establishing a connection between mail servers, the connection is rejected. Because either it is sent from some botnets, so there are serious discrepancies between the domain / IP address from which it physically comes out, or it is sent from the correct IP, but with such bulk the sender (domain) is on all possible RBLs.

If the mail server is so tragically configured, the problem will never go away. The spammer will change and the problem will come back. Change mailbox. Unfortunately, for some payment, where the service provider knows or wants to do it so that this muck could not be seen at all.

Right, but I have always had an address and everything possible related to it. Changing the address is an additional hassle.

mipix wrote:

Right, but I have always had an address and everything possible related to it. Changing the address is an additional hassle.

I've always had an address too. But I did the change operation once and in 1.5 years I got maybe 5 spam. He even treats something in the spam folder as a curiosity.

I wonder why I received mail addressed "similar" to my address. Example: my address is: zdzichu(_at_)o2.pl and there were e-mails addressed to zdzichq(_at_)o2.pl. zdzicha(_at_)o2.pl zdzichv(_at_)o2.pl, zdzichd(_at_)o2.pl and any other possible twists of this name. The right rule for checking if an address is mine removes most spam.
I understand the google search engine, where you can make typos and we will still get the desired search result with high probability. But the mail should go to the right addressee.

PS.
For me, the spam wave started from the moment I sent an email to a Chinese seller, I bought something on ebay.

mipix wrote:

I wonder why I received mail addressed "similar" to my address.

I also wondered once and fought. Then I kicked the 4-letter e-mail in the delivery and now I don't think about it.
You have a free inbox. You can't get it for free, even on the face of the drama. You can require NOTHING from this box, and you can think about its quirks forever.
I don't know what the prices are, but probably a good case costs 1 beer a month.

What pisses me off more than spam is the POORNOWLEDGE of o2 inbox! Do you have that too? On this one, logging in takes about 30 seconds (on others, on o2 it comes like a storm right away).

Spam is not a problem, usually in spam I have 100-200 emails from this idiot (they delete automatically). Recently, an idiot has launched an attack, he probably reads this forum and started getting spam, but it's still in the order of 1%. Erasing it manually takes a few seconds for a few days, worse that the erasing process takes forever (i.e. 30 seconds).

Moreover, the o2 mailbox is not free, just like other mailboxes, you get advertisements in exchange for the mailbox (here with o2, on e-mail etc. the same, although at least they admit to them). This subject spam is no longer o2's job, but they don't earn money from advertisers.
Quote from the regulations on o2:
"acknowledgment by the user that the free e-mail service is possible thanks to the cooperation of Grupa Wirtualna Polska sp. z oo with advertisers and, consequently, the acceptance of the authorization of Grupa Wirtualna Polska sp. consent to the processing of user data for marketing purposes and to receive commercial information (information, advertising, etc.) Grupa Wirtualna Polska sp. z oo or sent by Grupa Wirtualna Polska sp. z oo at the request of other persons "

the easiest way is to set up an account on gmail and redirect your old account, then set the unwanted messages as spam, and that's it. I have been like that for several years now

tc wrote:

then set the unwanted messages as spam and you're done

Only important information can also land in spam.

The only advice is a paid mailbox - I'm sorry - you want to be sure - you have to pay.

m.jastrzebski wrote:

I don't know what the prices are, but probably a good case costs 1 beer a month.

You are very close - the cost is from about PLN 30 a year.
Once upon a time, Onet had a "perpetual" mailbox for PLN 299.

I have a paid, perpetual onet and a lot of spam has been going through recently. Cleanly on gmail.

It now remains your own domain + someone's mailbox or vps and mail server + your own domain. There is a lot of promotion for the first year, but in the second year, the cost of the domain increases significantly for many.
Anyone have any ideas where to put one of the two options above?

Free box for O2.PL. Yesterday I got 97 pieces of spam. The day before yesterday - 132 pcs. Today from midnight - more than 20. During these two days and today only one spam made its way to the inbox; the rest was caught by the filter in O2. Not bad.

Trabi wrote:

Free box for O2.PL. Yesterday I got 97 pieces of spam. The day before yesterday - 132 pcs. Today from midnight - more than 20. During these two days and today only one spam made its way to the inbox; the rest was caught by the filter in O2. Not bad.

Not bad? In my opinion, it is tragic Because you have to visit these 132 a day. And my position is that these 132 should not even be considered SPAM.


marcin

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FasterThanX wrote:

It now remains your own domain + someone's mailbox or vps and mail server + your own domain. There is a lot of promotion for the first year, but in the second year, the cost of the domain increases significantly for many.
Anyone have any ideas where to put one of the two options above?

I did so. I bought a .pl domain. It costs about PLN 10 a month. Acceptable for me. And I use it for many other things. In addition, a mail server on a microcomputer, which has recently been built a lot, which, running 24/7, consumes electricity for PLN 2-3 a month.

Preset domain-to-IP (reverse DNS) validation, spf record checking, gray lists, blacklists.

Disadvantages:
- it costs me ~ PLN 15 a month
- some fun with the configuration at first
- the server is only as accessible as I have electricity at home and a working link. But what is it? 99.9% of the time. It's OK for me.

Benefits:
- I don't know what SPAM is. I don't look in the spam folder. 99% are not allowed to pass anything to the server, because something is grossly wrong.
- unlimited number of mailboxes, aliases, time boxes, black hole mailboxes, etc.
- spammers spam a large number of mail service providers. They practically do not know about me, because it is a server for ... 2 people.
- I have individual aliases, e.g. for each online store I use. How do I get SPAM for a given alias, so who should I "thank". It takes 1 minute to delete an alias.
- possibility to set any other considerations - number of sessions per IP. Number of sessions from a given IP per minute. Blocking IP after X login attempts. Etc, etc.

@mipix and how do you catch this spam? at least partially?

Recently, I rejected everything that has a different recipient's address than mine, including aliases @ go2.pl, @ oxygen.pl

@mipix but how can this be dismissed?

Options - Folders - Add a rule

If the To field does not contain (your alias), reject the message without notifying the sender of it.

m.jastrzebski wrote:

FasterThanX wrote:

It now remains your own domain + someone's mailbox or vps and mail server + your own domain. There is a lot of promotion for the first year, but in the second year, the cost of the domain increases significantly for many.
Anyone have any ideas where to put one of the two options above?

I did so. I bought a .pl domain. It costs around PLN 10 a month. Acceptable for me. And I use it for many other things. In addition, a mail server on a microcomputer, which has recently been built a lot, which, running 24/7, consumes electricity for PLN 2-3 a month.

Preset domain-to-IP (reverse DNS) validation, spf record checking, gray lists, blacklists.

Disadvantages:
- it costs me ~ PLN 15 a month
- some fun with the configuration at first
- the server is only as accessible as I have electricity at home and a working link. But what is it> 99.9% of the time. It's OK for me.

Benefits:
- I don't know what SPAM is. I don't look in the spam folder. 99% are not allowed to pass anything to the server, because something is grossly wrong.
- unlimited number of mailboxes, aliases, time boxes, black hole mailboxes, etc.
- spammers spam a large number of mail service providers. They practically do not know about me, because it is a server for ... 2 people.
- I have set up individual aliases, e.g. for each online store I use. How do I get SPAM for a given alias, so who can I "thank". It takes 1 minute to delete an alias.
- possibility to set any other considerations - number of sessions per IP. Number of sessions from a given IP per minute. Blocking IP after X login attempts. Etc, etc.

Out of curiosity - what software is it on?

To reduce costs, you could try DDNS, then only money for electricity goes, but if someone does not have an external IP, it will be a problem anyway, also probably easier to use Gmail, they handle spam well (sometimes "too well", but it is not a problem to look there once for some registrations, etc.).

the easiest way is to connect an o2 e-mail account to Gmail which automatically removes spam and leaves only valuable e-mails. And check via gmail