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very sorry you removed the option to block mail from senders not in address book -WHY??

reinstate the option to block mail from senders not in address book - why did you remove it??

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betsy morehouse shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
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Due to recent adjustments to the AOL Mail platform, this feature is no longer available. I apologize for the inconvenience. In order to block a specific sender, go to the Mail menu and select “Block Unwanted Mail” and add the email addresses in the box below “Block Mail from Addresses I Specify”, then click Save Settings at the bottom, or mark the emails in the inbox as Spam.

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  • Steve B. commented  ·   ·  Report

    Thank you, would really appreciate not getting about 70 spam messages per day

  • Alex Lechin, MD commented  ·   ·  Report

    In this time, we are flooded with SPAM, AOL should make it easy to block for ever websites and emails known to be worthless spam to be blocked completly and not to continue to go to the spam folder, because as you know, we many times get email from sources we are waiting to hear from that may go to our spam folder for many reasons, and when your spam folder is packed with not wanted emails, it becomes very difficult to find the few ones that you are expecting

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why are the spam controls not working ?
    You changed it & took most of the features away, but what you did leave us doesn't even work to block anything.
    Why do we have to be subjected to your rules that don't work for your customers ?
    Or do you want us to leave ?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why do you force us to accept spam in our mail? I guess it is so you can get paid for the ads that come in our mail. I know this will go in the trash since you never pay attention to our complaints. All we ever get is thank you for your feed back and nothing changes. We pay and you just do as you please and force us to accept the changes.

  • Harry commented  ·   ·  Report

    New Mail from now from everyone, before some was sent to spam that were not on my contact / friends lists?

  • Mary Ann Johnson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Will someone please make SPAM Controls more friendly? I have all of these email addresses in my folder; some may be fromthe year 2000 and before. I have upon occasion hit spam in error and not found what I just added when looking for it.
    Perhaps a SPAM tutorial could be useful. I know it would be for me.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    put back the option for spam settings....allow mail from people I know, block mail from all senders, allow mail from people I specify just like the settings were before (Sender filter )

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please bring back the spam filter controls that have vanished.

  • Allan Tull commented  ·   ·  Report

    What happened to the feature that allowed me to allow only selected "domains" to reach my in box - and all others to go to "junk" mail? Up until a few days ago I had this feature, but was told yesterday (9-18-2018) it was no longer available.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    if you guys can't control the spam yourself, then give us back our spam controls the way they were ... at least that worked !

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    .And the pam filter does not work. Nothing stays in there. Plus it is insane to have to put whole emails in there. It has to be words like it was on the old AOL. Back them if I put the word Viagra in their (for instance) I never got an email with that word in my inbox.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    getting spam mail in inbox???????

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please allow us to decide our own spam options. We ca't see who we are allowing to send emails any more. Maybe we should vote if we still need aol ther are other web sites

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Return the spam settings to the original. How dare you change when we are paying for the aol gold. consumers don't matter huh?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    bring back buddy list ,so if will be easy to block people who mess with you

  • Doug commented  ·   ·  Report

    Need a way that I can block all (spam) emails that are not coming from addresses already in my address book. Somehow that option got removed from my AOL Desktop Gold Mail, "Block Unwanted Mail" options. Please restore this option ASAP! I am being bombarded with thousands of bogus spam emails in a "denial of service attack!"

  • Bob commented  ·   ·  Report

    "Block mail from addresses I specify", How about "Allow mail from addresses I specify"?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Return to your spam control policy allowing me to select the email addresses I want to receive and roll over the others to spam. I am a paying subscriber. I will begin looking for a service which gives me the service you formally provided. The new spam control allow me to select the addresses I don't want. There are over 100 million I don't want. How do I select those with your new policy?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Where is my spam controls folder that I had set-up ??? 
    Most of what used to be there is now gone & now I seem to be getting is all the spam & scams out there.

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